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Terrorised Chicago residents plead for police crackdown as gang war murders soar
Residents of the mainly black South Side want stop-and-search tactics brought back as gang murders plague President Barack Obama’s home city.
The cluster of young men hanging out on the porch of the run-down brick home cast menacing stares at the unknown car as a “spotter”, a teen on a bicycle, talked into a mobile phone.
Beneath a tree across the street, burned red candle wax was the last remnant of an impromptu shrine for a 13-year-old boy, Tyquan Tyler, shot dead two weeks earlier by a killer just a few years older than him.
The assailant had run through an alleyway past a boarded-up home, mown down his victim and then disappeared back down the same route into a neighbouring street before the “ATM boys” could respond with their Glock pistols.
In the killing zones of Chicago’s predominantly black and poor South Side, turf warfare is no longer waged for control of districts but street to street.
A splintering of traditional gangs into smaller factions – known as crews or cliques – with ever-younger members desperate to prove their tough-guy credentials is fuelling a murder rate that makes swathes of Chicago more lethal than Afghanistan.
Even as violent crime has decreased in cities such as New York and Los Angeles, the murder rate soared here by 38 per cent in the first six months of the year. There were 259 murders in that period, with another 18 so far in July.
Botzilla
July 17th, 2012
This makes me wish that our ancestors wouldn’t have been so lazy and just picked their own cotton, we wouldn’t have to deal with this today.
Pickled Liver
July 17th, 2012
But…but…. wouldn’t that be considered profiling? No matter – it’s raaaciiiiiiiiist !~
Have Rev’s Sharpton and Jackson handle it!~
Metprof
July 17th, 2012
Their mayor would help but he’s too busy helping Obama get elected.
btw…..do you folks on the south side now understand how you shit in your own mess kit by electing dems???? Naw,…probably not.
Unneutral
July 17th, 2012
Maybe the liberals need to throw more money in there, bigger welfare checks and all that.
hanoverfist
July 17th, 2012
I’d feel safer in Somalia.
Czar of Defenestration
July 17th, 2012
Maybe Rahm could lent the gangs some of his old TUTUs…
…sort of a “diversity” thing and all…
(and pink goes so well with blood red)
persecutor
July 17th, 2012
You mean there’s a crisis Tiny Dancer isn’t taking advantage of?
Disarm the law abiding population and the thugs win.
grayscape
July 17th, 2012
Southside Shitcago is Odicktaters model for America.
scribble
July 17th, 2012
obama has his black base right where he wants them.
old_oaks
July 17th, 2012
If blacks would stop being jealous of other blacks, this crap wouldn’t happen.
The place is a cesspool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgaQppyq1o
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Bad Brad
July 17th, 2012
Why not just keep shipping them ammo. Looks like eventually the problem will take care of itself.
Lylelovett666
July 17th, 2012
“we got no jobs and no hope.”Go fuck yourselves.You voted for this halfwitt,shit bag just because he’s black.So suck it.
Jackie
July 17th, 2012
Call the idiot Obama….he’ll fix you up!
Two Legged Blue Eyed Cracker
July 17th, 2012
“if you go down there – you better just beware – of a man named Barry So… err… LeRoy Brown…”
Anonymous
July 17th, 2012
Hey you voted for Obama. It just sucks when you get what you deserve.
Lylelovett666
July 17th, 2012
First they voted out of purely racist motives.Then they elected one of his most odious toadies to be mayor.Not to mention this is how you’ve been voting for 70 years.Shut up and take your medicine you racist,commie maggots.
Wyatt, Insensitive Jerk
July 17th, 2012
“we got no jobs and no hope.” This is the consequence of the policies of the people you voted for – progressives and machine democrats. These people advocate and practice, among other things, class warfare, and you – the poor people of America – are the real casualties.
Let’s hate the rich. Make the rich pay their “fair share” (i.e. everything). Land use, business regulation, high property taxes, sales taxes, high corporate taxes, EPA regulations, etc., ad nauseum – this is how we can punish the rich. Aside from the obvious economic consequences (you pay more for everything), these policies raise the barriers to entry. One doesn’t often see big business bitching too vociferously about these things because (1) they pass the cost on to consumers and (2) by raising the barriers to entry in any given field, it lessens competition. I don’t want to sound like a progressive, but in many cases big business and government have rigged the game to keep you out.
You have no jobs because it is dangerous and/or unprofitable to do business in your neighborhood; ergo no one is hiring because evil business people don’t want to be in your neck of the woods. You have no hope because progressives keep telling you that you should have no hope, you buy into this argument and appear content to exist on government handouts, and because big government types are busy destroying opportunity under the guise of helping you.
This is a tough lesson to learn, but if you truly want jobs and hope, you must learn that the government is not going to either make these things magically appear or give them to you.
Noelegy
July 17th, 2012
It’s really sad when we have to depend on the UK media to tell the stories our media won’t touch.
Cruisin' Cat
July 17th, 2012
Immediate enactment of CCW laws so law abiding citizens can defend themselves.
AHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!
Just kidding! Suckers!
well now
July 17th, 2012
Sorry I no longer have any sympathy for these people. If you say anything truthful about the current black underclass and their “culture” you are labeled a racist. Well I’m not going to say anything about how self destructuve they are. What I am going to say is “You reap what you sow” now live with it.
Annie
July 17th, 2012
One cannot own a gun in the city limits of Chicago. This is just Hollywood ballyhoo to create strife. (Strife:is that a good word for gaping chest wound).