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2010-04-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

Call the National Guard! Lawmakers want Guard to curb violence in Chicago

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-04-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 These things happen when you do not hire enough Police Officers to match retirements, let the Rev's and 'community activists' dictate your Law Enforcement policies, have a leadership vacuum at the top of your Police Dept.,and pay off every silly lawsuit filed. Wind meet Whirlwind

Posted by Waldemar Gleamp1150 2010-04-27 00:32|| 2010-04-27 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 A government that can not provide security in one's person, one's family and one's property can not claim legitimacy to exist or to hold power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-27 09:33|| 2010-04-27 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfortunately this is NOT the first time. There were huge riots in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Chicago, Detroit, Wash D.C. had massive arsen, looting, National Guard call-ups, 82nd Abn deployments. M1's, BAR's and vehicle mounted M2 Brownings raking buildings, engaging snipers. Very, very bad. Imagine if you will, what will happen if the free gov't cheese comes to a stop.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-27 09:41|| 2010-04-27 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 IT'S A QUAGMIRE!

Shows the wisdom of the USOC choosing Brazil over Chicago - Brazil is safer.

Chicago was known locally as "Beirut by the Lake" in the 70s.

Posted by anonymous_2u2 2010-04-27 09:45|| 2010-04-27 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Has no one noticed? The social fabric of Chicago began to disintegrate when Barak Obama went to Washington.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-27 09:50|| 2010-04-27 09:50|| Front Page Top

#6 How about a few Predator strikes instead?

Posted by ed 2010-04-27 10:58|| 2010-04-27 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 There was a proposal not too long ago to do away with testing for the Chicago area police officers in an attempt to improve the hiring base. Not sure if a bunch of unqualified badges is the answer either. As you said WG1150 lawsuits and case dismissals galore.

One problem may be the difficulties in running a legitimate business. Too many people have been too relient on others to do the dirty work required. Can't fire someone else ya gotta pay out unemployment or worse some discimination lawsuit, laws and regulations create paperwork which if not filled out entirely can get ya in trouble, local politics if you will, all before being able to concentrate on creating that product or service for a profit large enough to live off of even before growing a business. Yeah, sign me up for that job just to be rediculed or worse as some profiteer.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-04-27 11:29|| 2010-04-27 11:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Once again the violence is tied to gangs and the drugs they move, which is also related to the border violence. Putting the National Guard on the border would be a better place to start. Surprising stats put Omaha, NE at third in the nation in black violence, over Detroit, New Orleans, and even Chicago. Only East St. Louis and Newark were higher:

from Omaha.com
Over a recent span of five days, gunfire rocked northeast Omaha.The surge of violence left three dead and another gravely wounded and heightened the tensions in several Omaha high schools.

But more than that, it underscored how Omaha's streets in recent years have become among the deadliest places in America for blacks.

Fueled by gun violence in northeast Omaha, Nebraska has the third-highest black homicide rate in the nation, according to the latest compilation of detailed national homicide statistics. The figures are based on homicide data from 2007, but they aren't a one-year fluke. Nebraska's black homicide rate for 2008 was even worse, and should again rank with the nation's highest when national figures become available.

Nebraska's black homicide rate did drop considerably in 2009, a welcome change that police and north Omaha community leaders attribute to initiatives aimed at tamping down gun violence.

But as the recent outburst of gunfire showed, there is still work to do.

When we do have a flare-up like that, we absolutely pay attention,'' said Omaha Police Chief Alex Hayes. All these efforts are still ongoing. It takes a collaborative effort.''

Both nationally and here, gangs, guns and black-on-black youth violence are at the center of the black homicide epidemic.

Though Nebraska's 82,000 black residents make up about 4.5 percent of the state's 1.8 million population, blacks have accounted for nearly 40 percent of the state's homicide victims over the past three years. In Omaha, 55.5 percent of the homicide victims in that time were black.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-04-27 11:31|| 2010-04-27 11:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Though Nebraska's 82,000 black residents make up about 4.5 percent of the state's 1.8 million population, blacks have accounted for nearly 40 percent of the state's homicide victims

End the racist meddling! These statistics point to a very obvious, self correcting phenomenon.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-27 11:36|| 2010-04-27 11:36|| Front Page Top

#10 My bad. It wasn't Newark but Philadelphia. Still, you don't hear much about it and the police in Omaha were submitting reports to the FBI incorrectly for several years, skewing the stats for whatever reason. They also have turf battles with the Hispanic side of town, where MS-13 and other gangs have had a presence, just as any other city and even small towns have.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-04-27 11:41|| 2010-04-27 11:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Does that include Da Mare's boys?

Posted by mojo 2010-04-27 11:46|| 2010-04-27 11:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Chicago is beginning to sound a little like Juarez or Tijuana or other Mexican border towns. How's the court case coming along where the honest citizens of Illinois can carry concealed and protect themselves? Crime goes down in concealed carry states.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-27 12:31|| 2010-04-27 12:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Step one of the frontal assault on the constitution. They call for the nat guard. It falls of deaf ears. The gov calls it a state of emergency forcing the feds into action. Now the nat guard show up, the 82d, and some SOF troops. During the state of emergency the constitution does not apply, it is a true police state. US troops raiding drug and gang houses shoot up some locals and the riots start. More reason to call the whole state in a state of emergency, now a full blown federalized police state. Constitutional crisis initiated, our dear leader is now dictator of what used to be the free world. Seem crazy, not to me...

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-04-27 15:33|| 2010-04-27 15:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Not crazy to me either. Flip to 'fast forward' as the gov't cheese runs out.

"Never let a good crisis to to waste."

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-27 16:26|| 2010-04-27 16:26|| Front Page Top

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