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‘Numbers don’t lie’ |
Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists. |
Of these 450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75 percent. Islamic extremists were responsible for about 20 percent, and left-wing extremists were responsible for 4 percent. |
Nearly half of the murders were specifically tied to white supremacists: |
...and the beat goes on...
The shooting in Buffalo on Saturday has horrified Americans, but it was massacre as usual in Chicago this weekend and few outside the Windy City noticed.
At least 33 people were shot, five fatally, according to police. Five of the victims were in the 1st police district, which covers the downtown Loop and Near South Side. The city’s daily mayhem isn’t limited to high-crime neighborhoods but has spread to busy commercial areas. Shootings in the 1st district are up 60% over last year.
Sixteen-year-old Seandell Holliday was shot in the chest and killed in downtown Millennium Park. He’s the 97th child shot and 20th slain this year. The previous weekend 24 people were shot, six fatally.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago’s politicians haven’t stopped the violence, and on Sunday she announced that unaccompanied minors will no longer be allowed in Millennium Park after 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Chicago has long had an 11 p.m. city-wide curfew for minors, but Ms. Lightfoot said on Monday that she would bump it up to 10 p.m. on the weekends.
“This restriction aims to build a culture of care in our public spaces instead of using police enforcement to criminalize our youth,” the mayor’s spokeswoman Kate LeFurgy told us.
If you want to understand Chicago’s public-order problem in a nutshell, there it is. Normal policing is considered criminalizing youth, as opposed to getting criminals off the streets. Instead the mayor won’t let unaccompanied teens visit a city park alone in the evenings on weekends. Does anyone really believe this will make a difference, assuming it is even enforced?
Between 2020 and 2021, Chicago cut its police budget by some $63 million. The city has since restored and increased funding, but it has also reduced the size of its authorized police force by eliminating more than 600 vacancies between 2019 and 2022.
The cops know they lack political support to do their dangerous jobs and have responded by resigning and retiring en masse. Chicago now has 1,343 fewer sworn officers than it did in May 2020. Get ready for more bloody weekends this summer.
www.wsj.com
The shooting in Buffalo on Saturday has horrified Americans, but it was massacre as usual in Chicago this weekend and few outside the Windy City noticed.
At least 33 people were shot, five fatally, according to police. Five of the victims were in the 1st police district, which covers the downtown Loop and Near South Side. The city’s daily mayhem isn’t limited to high-crime neighborhoods but has spread to busy commercial areas. Shootings in the 1st district are up 60% over last year.
Sixteen-year-old Seandell Holliday was shot in the chest and killed in downtown Millennium Park. He’s the 97th child shot and 20th slain this year. The previous weekend 24 people were shot, six fatally.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago’s politicians haven’t stopped the violence, and on Sunday she announced that unaccompanied minors will no longer be allowed in Millennium Park after 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Chicago has long had an 11 p.m. city-wide curfew for minors, but Ms. Lightfoot said on Monday that she would bump it up to 10 p.m. on the weekends.
“This restriction aims to build a culture of care in our public spaces instead of using police enforcement to criminalize our youth,” the mayor’s spokeswoman Kate LeFurgy told us.
If you want to understand Chicago’s public-order problem in a nutshell, there it is. Normal policing is considered criminalizing youth, as opposed to getting criminals off the streets. Instead the mayor won’t let unaccompanied teens visit a city park alone in the evenings on weekends. Does anyone really believe this will make a difference, assuming it is even enforced?
Between 2020 and 2021, Chicago cut its police budget by some $63 million. The city has since restored and increased funding, but it has also reduced the size of its authorized police force by eliminating more than 600 vacancies between 2019 and 2022.
The cops know they lack political support to do their dangerous jobs and have responded by resigning and retiring en masse. Chicago now has 1,343 fewer sworn officers than it did in May 2020. Get ready for more bloody weekends this summer.
Opinion | Massacre as Usual in Chicago
Mayor Lightfoot presides over a routine weekend shooting spree.
www.wsj.com
U r a sic man!!!
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Now that is true "old news".
...and the beat goes on...
The shooting in Buffalo on Saturday has horrified Americans, but it was massacre as usual in Chicago this weekend and few outside the Windy City noticed.
At least 33 people were shot, five fatally, according to police. Five of the victims were in the 1st police district, which covers the downtown Loop and Near South Side. The city’s daily mayhem isn’t limited to high-crime neighborhoods but has spread to busy commercial areas. Shootings in the 1st district are up 60% over last year.
Sixteen-year-old Seandell Holliday was shot in the chest and killed in downtown Millennium Park. He’s the 97th child shot and 20th slain this year. The previous weekend 24 people were shot, six fatally.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago’s politicians haven’t stopped the violence, and on Sunday she announced that unaccompanied minors will no longer be allowed in Millennium Park after 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Chicago has long had an 11 p.m. city-wide curfew for minors, but Ms. Lightfoot said on Monday that she would bump it up to 10 p.m. on the weekends.
“This restriction aims to build a culture of care in our public spaces instead of using police enforcement to criminalize our youth,” the mayor’s spokeswoman Kate LeFurgy told us.
If you want to understand Chicago’s public-order problem in a nutshell, there it is. Normal policing is considered criminalizing youth, as opposed to getting criminals off the streets. Instead the mayor won’t let unaccompanied teens visit a city park alone in the evenings on weekends. Does anyone really believe this will make a difference, assuming it is even enforced?
Between 2020 and 2021, Chicago cut its police budget by some $63 million. The city has since restored and increased funding, but it has also reduced the size of its authorized police force by eliminating more than 600 vacancies between 2019 and 2022.
The cops know they lack political support to do their dangerous jobs and have responded by resigning and retiring en masse. Chicago now has 1,343 fewer sworn officers than it did in May 2020. Get ready for more bloody weekends this summer.
Opinion | Massacre as Usual in Chicago
Mayor Lightfoot presides over a routine weekend shooting spree.
Don't know that I agree. Street gangs shooting each other for turf and ill gotten gains is horrible, but at least I can understand what motivates and feel confident in my ability to avoid 'high risk' situations. But crazy people shooting people for no other reason than the color of one's skin... well that to me is pure insanity. The intention to create terror, as well as the randomness of these sorts of actions makes it different and more reprehensible imho.
However as to this latest rampage in Buffalo, and the Dems response to it? Well what's Biden going to say that he didn't say a few months ago when he was telling us it was white supremacist who were responsible for vaccine hesitancy? Or AOC didn't say when she called out Nancy Pelosi for being a racist. Or that hasn't been said in the DOC's fundraising emails pleading for money to fight the 50% of America that are 'racists' Republicans.
That's the real issue to me. Now that we are confronted with a real white supremacist... the dems are like "the boy who cried wolf." They have so exploited 'identity politics' for political gain, that by default it's become easy to tune it out.
Speaking of the war on racism and the loss of legitimacy... you guys hear about what BLM was doing with all that money people were donating? Also worth noting I think is that none of the big business donors are asking for them money back so it can be donated to a charity that actually improve the lives of black Americans.
The Real Takeaway From BLM’s Sketchy Finances
Newly revealed IRS tax documents show the social justice nonprofit’s leaders used “white guilt money” to enrich themselves. It’s time to support local grassroots orgs instead.
www.thedailybeast.com
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Democrats’ alarm about Mastriano’s beliefs is leavened by their confidence that their nominee, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, can defeat the Republican in November.
Still, Mastriano’s victory underlines, one more time, just how the fictions propagated by former President Trump have been mainstreamed among Republican voters.
Perhaps that should be no surprise: An Economist-YouGov poll last week indicated that 76 percent of GOP voters believe President Biden was not the legitimate winner of the 2020 election.
Lol!
Still, Mastriano’s victory underlines, one more time, just how the fictions propagated by former President Trump have been mainstreamed among Republican voters.
Perhaps that should be no surprise: An Economist-YouGov poll last week indicated that 76 percent of GOP voters believe President Biden was not the legitimate winner of the 2020 election.
Lol!
While I agree with much of what you say.
My point was the slaughter is Black on Black weekly, not some nut case.
The stats Daffy posted regarding 450 murders in 10 years is very concerning...45 murders per year by haters should be addressed
But somehow the news coverage and the political commentary ignores weekly big city slaughters.
It appears, had the authorities in New York followed the law, the gunman would have been denied purchasing a gun.
It's a sad sad reality.
If you know how, please cite website.
How about those white-on-white murders? When are we going to do something about that?
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It’s ok because what about . . .
Is there a white on white shooting problem in Poway?
You should contact the SO
It's not okay and only a moron would reach that conclusion...
Now...you gonna cite the webpage or not from post 1415?
All the murders I know about in Poway were white on white. This one was across the street from one son's team manager's house.
Neighbors’ feud behind shootings
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