Mope-Rah Makes Sense?
When Mayor Daley starts blaming "texting" and "drinking" by suburban high school students for a string of North Avenue beach arrests, it is time for the citizens to seriously get on his butt.
While preventing the city's downtown from becoming a ghost town like the downtown areas in so many other cities, Daley is faced with another daunting challenge: How to keep huge chunks of Chicago neighborhoods from becoming crime-ridden ghettos.
But Daley's stubborn defense of his handgun ban is clouding his judgment.
There aren't enough police officers to protect and serve; enough good parents to raise the children; enough jobs; enough recreational activities or enough grandparents to take up the slack.
Today, there is a noticeable lack of the things that keep communities safe
Welcome to the party - finally.
Labels: media, we got nothing
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
60 Comments:
mitchell is a racist clown.for once she sees the light.just once.
OH SHIT !!! IT'S A SIGN OF THE APOCOLYPSE !! THE PLAGUE OF LOCUST !!
I am shocked, this was one poignant piece of journalism. Mary Mitchell actually gets it.
Too bad, nobody else does!
I was just as stunned as you, SCC, reading her column- seems that more and more of the media are beginning to see the stupidity of shortshank's ramblings.
Now let's continue the fight for Cozzi.
Good, I wasn't the only one.
I usually flip the page in anger and disgust as soon as I see her column is on it, but for some reason today I stopped to peruse. I actually was thinking while reading, "This bitch is actually saying something I AGREE with?"
Personally, I believe Chicago is worth fighting for. It's easy to be cynical to the point of fatalism but in the end, I do believe that. The *only* people who are capable of taking up this fight are the police and the citizenry who draws their line in the sand and refuse to budge from it.
Obviously, denying the citizenry an effective means of defense makes everything that comes after immaterial- since you've created a victim class- but really, it goes much deeper than just being armed.
We must support the policemen that work in our communities. A kind wave or a thumbs-up goes a long way.
We must not be afraid to call 911 when 'something's up' in our area. Aggregate 911 calls translate into allocated resources.
Every LINK Card carrying shitbird does not hesitate to call 911 over every conceivable domestic squabble or parenting issue, yet the good people who actually pay taxes let things like burglaries and assaults to unreported! This must stop. Call, call, call.
Most importantly, though, we must send a message to city hall that we support our police 'when the gloves come off' against the thugs and that Chicago is not an easy place to be if you're a parasite, criminal or goon. When Section 8 comes into a neighborhood, the police and citizens alike must send a message to them that you're being watched- closely- and we strike back viciously if you think you will victimize our families and communities.
too little too late. the de-balling of the police department began awhile back and shall never return. you got what you wanted. also...dont play nice now after years of backstabbing.guess we are not so expended? thank you for your silent agreement on that wonderful contract too.
"How to keep huge chunks of Chicago neighborhoods from becoming crime-ridden ghettos."
WTF? A point like this SHOULD have been made in the 80's and 90's with the crack wars...
...it's 2010, the housing projects were built and torn down, and NOW-- now she's calling for neighborhoods not to "become" crime-ridden ghettos!?!?
When 95% of the households are run by single parents(Mothers) in the community in question who also happen to lack basic parenting skills, the end product speaks for itself.
Problem with Mitchell and all the reverends is that there's a disconnect with those values and the ideal way of life that they hope for. Electing garbage politicians who vote for liberal agendas wont correct the problems of urban America.
Being anti business by raising taxes wont bring jobs to your community. Putting liberal judges on the bench wont put the fear of God into criminals. Appeasing teachers union and not having a voucher system wont fix your schools.
The politicians in place love the status quo. It gives them job security. Jesse, SR and Jr, Danny Davis, all the aldermen, the reverends make a ton of money off the heartache of people.
Unfortunately an uneducated populace is doomed.
Mitchell has written a number of articles praising the CPD, SCC. She doesn't bash us constantly, but sometimes the things she bashes us about are things we need to clean up inside of our own house. She's no different from any other reporter, black or white. Main and Spielman do the same thing. Some of the things posted here about her submitted by our fellow officers are even worse than what she's written about.
p.s. she's written many articles about the failure of parents to raise their children properly and bring them up as responsible and contributing to society.
Told...you....so
Even a blind sow finds a corncob once in a while.
[...] misspent money [...] come on SCC, it's all how you look at it. One man's missspent money is another man's
I'll -gotten-gain.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
From BayRock on down, the dumbocRATic party's objective is to make the citizenry relient on government.
You work for the government not the government working for you.
SAD ISNT I STILL GET PAID THE SAME.
CRIME UP CRIME DOWN
NO CONVICTION 1 CONVICTION
1 PARKER 200 PARKERS
DALEY GAVE J-FLED A NICE SALARY WORTH 2 SPOT ON THE CITY PAY ROLL( R TAXES).
MAY BE THOSE HARD CHARGERS ON THE STREETS SHOULD GET MORE CASH!
OR MAYBE THEY SHOULD BE MERIT PROMOTED IF THEY ARE OUT AND ABOUT LOCKING UP POOKIE OR DON JULIO.
JUST A THOUGHT, IM USED TO HI LEVELS OF SHOOTING AND NEIGHBORS THAT WILL BREAK INTO UR CAR FOR CHANGE.
I KNOW THE GANGS BOUNDARIES AND ACTUALLY KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE.
U EITHER STAND UP FOR UR FAMILY OR END UP ON THE NEWS.
A little off the topic but downtown is turning into the GHETTO. You cannot walk a block without being harassed for money or being bumped into by gang bangers. Chicago's downtown area is turning to shit with every buck-boy and flyer prick on every other block. Get rid of these little thugs or downtown will be a ghost town!
I agree with one of the other posters that Mitchell is back/forth on issues.
For a couple of years, it seemed like she had gotten more racist than ever for a few years (RE: Chgo Tonight appearances) and had gotten difficult to believe some of her statements.
Who knows---perhaps her bout with cancer has made her see things in a more balanced fashion?
In the end, we all know Daley is wrong. We can all see that he has flipped out and cannot see what is really going on any longer.
huge swaths of the city are crime ridden ghettos already and have been for decades--- chicago is a lost cause, see the writing on the wall and prepare to get out as soon as you can--- years ago the family base was in roseland and we can't even drive thru there because you feel like you are going to puke--- then it was the marquette park area and now that area is garbage--- not many places to hide anymore if you work for the city so get out as soon as you can.....
I don't read her, I won't read her and I think she is a racist. I had been offended over and over until I switched papers because of her. To the person who keeps saying we've been de-balled and we have no power etc...wake up. I've been on this job for 15yrs l, I've only worked in the ghetto and you're completely wrong it was the same then as it is now. Stop being a pussy, remove the pussy.
Yes, Mary, welcome to the party. Can I get you a drink?
Anonymous said...
When 95% of the households are run by single parents(Mothers) in the community in question who also happen to lack basic parenting skills, the end product speaks for itself.
6/02/2010 01:24:00 AM
I hear this all the time. Are there any actual statistics from a reputable source that can give the actual percentage? 95% is utter BS.
Mary Mitchell has selective memory at best and is a pandering yellow journalist at worst who has painted herself into the corner of irrelevancy for defending the indefensible for all these years.
As surely as there are no atheists in foxholes when red hot iron, shit and body parts are flying around, a sworn Police-Hater undergoes a conversion of convenience by immersion because she's "seen the light."
Amusing, but not so much...
...So now, after all these years of defending savagery and pandering/giving material aid to those who live a throw-away lifestyle of willful ignorance, artfully dodged responsibility and non-existant impulse control while vilifying the eternal mother-lovin' shit out of the POLICE who are COMPELLED to respond and fix it/make it go away/make sense of nonsense & ghetto fuckery?
Muthafuckahs PUH-LEEZE! Go away but kiss our ass first before you leave!
Now you fools want to holler for the Police?
What's the matter? Has the toilet of society overflowed so badly that you purveyors of perpetual victimhood and preachers of "everybody else's fault but my own" need the Police to jiggle the handle?
YOU had a material hand in the BIGGEST possible way of this city's descent into utter fuckin' madness by going along with 42 extra-short in making the Police out to be the enemy and YOU know this!
Now the Policeman laughs because you're foolishly burning alive in the HELL of YOUR OWN MAKING while you try to heap coals on our heads just because we have the nerve to wear a silly blue suit and the gall to respond when YOU call!
Now you want to scream "help us" when mere weeks ago you were yelling "fuck you and everything you stand for?"
As we posted on prior occasions, the Policeman, for the most part, is the ONLY one in the public arena compelled to adhere to any modicum of moral or ethical standard. The mayor is not. Neither is the media. Nor are the aldercreatures, runnin' dog rev'runs
(Damnation and Hell will surely seize you decayed preachers of ignorance, selfishness, false and untrue doctrines and the intellectually lazy theology of perpetual victimology. Lead not his flocks astray you Pharisees!)
We for the most part don't really care all that much anymore.
The people crying and yelling for the Police to return to the take no shit, knock heads and kick ass ways of good, old fashioned Chicago Policing just don't understand.
No Policeman in his right mind is going to lay himself on that altar ever again.
There is nothing remaining that makes such a thing worthwhile anymore. Period.
The people have embraced barbarism and spit in the faces of the ones sworn to protect them.
The Policeman has swallowed insult after outrage after insult along with withering attacks on his dignity and pride.
The Policeman has been relegated to second class citizenship and denial of his right to even be human.
Men have taken up arms to set lesser outrages right...
As for Mary Mitchell?
Way too little, way too late and let's too many of the main actors off the hook.
The Police didn't break this shit, it isn't for the Police to fix it.
We said it, too damn bad if you don't like it!
WITH A BUDGET FOR 13500 COPS AND 4000 SHORT, WHERE IS THE OTHER MONEY GOING?
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/06/police-gang-member-placed-fake-911-call-for-faster-police-response.html
As you've mentioned many times before.
I'm a tax paying, working, family oriented citizen of Chicago and a handgun owner (shhh don't tell). I'm glad to know the cops support us law abiding types who are not friggin' Dirty Harry wannabes, just looking to protect what is ours from the do-nothings and mutts coming into our neighborhoods on Section 8 vouchers and trying to take what is ours.
Mitchell has written a number of articles praising the CPD, SCC. She doesn't bash us constantly, but sometimes the things she bashes us about are things we need to clean up inside of our own house. She's no different from any other reporter, black or white. Main and Spielman do the same thing. Some of the things posted here about her submitted by our fellow officers are even worse than what she's written about.
p.s. she's written many articles about the failure of parents to raise their children properly and bring them up as responsible and contributing to society.
6/02/2010 02:42:00 AM
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Woah! Hold up! Before you completely become her cheerleader, know she is way, way different from most other reporters.
You use Spielman and Main as comparisons to support your opinion, both of which are bad examples. They are not opinion columnists, while Mope-Rah is nothing but an opinion columnist and her opinion is 99.9% racist, as far-whacky left as possible and anti-police.
And before you get furthered bamboozled by her occasional trek to the rational side, remember, even a broken clock will tell the correct time twice a day. Her record of absurd, racist and anti-police opinions speak for themselves.
OT: To the two-year wonder Blue Island copper that wrote my G\F a BULLSHIT ticket. I've worked with, and know many officers from your agency and they are excellent officers. You "sir", are a petty punk!
Daley reminds me of the arab sheiks who keep blaming the jews for all of the troubles the arab people are having. It keeps the poor focused on someone to hate and helps the people in power to ignore the real problems. Keep blaming guns for all of the ills in society. That way you do not have to really address the ills that are the real cause.
See--every now and then even Mary Mitchell deviates into rational thinking.
Slightly off topic. but how is there for judicious use of police resources. . . . the 004th District has a car detailed at 87th and Exchange--right beneath one of those really effective blue light cameras? Does this make sense?
OFF TOPIC:
""Go swim in the Potomac," Daley said when asked about the federal position during a City Hall news conference. "We're trying to make this river every day more cleanable.""
She actually wrote an article half condemning the spread of the project mentality into the few working class black communities around the end of April...
you have tht dept you wanted. Now you want us back. too bad, too late. People with street experience used to work plain clothes, knew what they were doing, knew the players. now the only people you can get to do a lick of anything is young officers right off probation. nothing against them, but they are the only ones willing to do work. and they take what they can get, as long as they don't have to work midnights.
I know my family is safe. I wish the same for you. now that the police are handcuffed, and our balls have been cut off by rev's aldermen, IRPA and I accept that. The biggest loser here is the "good citizen"
Good luck to you sir, heres the copy of your report. You report # is in the top right corner.
Off Topic:
Ok, let's just say someone is stealing something off my back porch right outside my kitchen door. Can I stab them? Because I don't have a gun. And it's not an enclosed back porch but it is about the size of a small room.
I'm serious.
---not a cop
Well really, could I just scare them with a knife, because I don't want to have to clean up after the lousy bastard.
---not a cop
Cameras, prayer vigils and more misspent money isn't going to do it.
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Here's what's been successful so far!
Outdoor roll calls, false registration missions, seat belt missions, event numbers, saturation missions, stop the violence parades, caps sports programs, GREAT classes, signs on the station walls, eliminating the school unit, and my all time favorite? Gutting the districts to fill units!
A very successful strategy, don't you think?
INCOMING!
They want the police until they get them. Then they'll want them out.
When will you people learn. They want you to do things FOR them, but when you do police work for society as a whole, they get mad. They say you're dirty. They say you're racist. They say it in unison.
Its not the mayor who wanted a hands-off police department. ITS THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED IT.
Crime is up because we have finally entered the era where a majority of Chicago citizens are no longer committed to justice. They want to be safe, but they do not care to keep anyone else safe. They see crime and if they are not the victim, they could care less. Hundreds of cold blooded murderers released and given hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars because the citizens of Chicago could give a shit about crime when they are not the victim.
They now realize they will likely become future victims. It is too late to help them. No amount of police officers can fend off what is comming.
Justice is comming. He is angry and he comes in the form of the criminals that the people of Chicago have nutured and supported. Justice is comming and there is no stopping him. What will happen will not be pretty, but it will be right, and it will be well deserved.
It's about time this "progressive" nit-wit got a clue. Too bad she will never get it entirely. She just can't because she is a liberal. There is a disconnect between reality and wishful thinking with these liberals. They want what just can't be and do everything in their power to make these things so, even though they are contrary to human nature. Disarm the citizens, you get more violence. But without weapons, it was supposed to be Nirvana! Give people free stuff, they work less. But they now have what they need! They turn waiting in line for free stuff into their job. Why would anyone want to live on what the government will give you? There is more to life than that, but I guess if that's all you saw your parents do, then you should do the same......
Thank god I have a gun Mr. Mayor!
THIS WOMAN IS A POLICE HATTER!!!
I WAS REALLY IN SHOCK AFTER READING HER ARTICLE.
I WISH SHE WOULD MAKE THIS KIND OF AN EFFORT WHEN SHE WRITES ABOUT THE POOR BLACK COMMUNITY.
MAYBE WRITE ABOUT ALL THE TEENS GETTING PREGNANT AND GHETTO TALKING MOM'S OUT THERE..
AT LEAST ON THIS ONE SHE MAKES SEVERAL GOOD POINTS, AND DOES A GOOD JOB AT BALANCING THE TRUTH.
W.GODINEZ 013-DIST
Box Chevy -will you marry me?? you are my hero with your response
"Today, there is a noticeable lack of the things that keep communities safe."
Yeah, not to mention a very noticeable oversupply of the people who make life hell, from their hallway-pissing to their loose dogs to their loud arguments in the supermarket -- more and more of them every day.
Remember - US population predicted to hit 400 million by 2050.
Don't get excited.
This is the same lady who wrote a column a couple of days ago about how we mis -judge innocent youths. A woman had called her regarding a makeshift memorial. The woman interpreted it as a threat against "snitchers". Mitchell rode to the scene and saw 3 "youths" in the uniform - White T shirt etc. Mary took the time to talk to the "youths" and discovered that it was a memorial to some kid who had beeen shot 3 years ago. Mary felt this was all very touching and the moral of the story was that we are quick to judge, but if we actually talked to these "youths" like she did we might discover they are sensitive little angels.
The youths professed to have no kknowledge or details surrounding the shooting and she conveniently did not ask about any gang affiliations.
Mary is not the solution -she is part of the problem. Turns a blind eye to all of the negative behavior and only complains about the result when it becomes overwhelming. Her columns have supported all of the liberal policies that have brought this about but she does not see the connection.
So - don't get excited. She is like the battered woman who every now and then just can't take it anymore and wants the bum out - but only for the night. Watch for her next columns - nothing will change.
buy a hand gun and protect your family how many people are searched during a routine traffic stop , not to many unless you are drivin by the dope man
protect yourself and family
we don't bother the working person
remember the policeman is your friend
I hear this all the time. Are there any actual statistics from a reputable source that can give the actual percentage? 95% is utter BS.
6/02/2010 09:01:00 AM
Sorry to say, but 95% is not BS. That number is truthful. Your unwillingness to acknowledge the obvious is the BS.
mo prah will not back you up
burge put murderes in jail now everyone wants his head
let the citizens shoot burglars
to protect themselves we sure can't the more burglars shot and killed by law abiding citizens the better
crime will go down
9:40 AM - Box Chevy Phantom:
You're on a roll, my brother. Top of your game.
Slightly off topic. but how is there for judicious use of police resources. . . . the 004th District has a car detailed at 87th and Exchange--right beneath one of those really effective blue light cameras? Does this make sense?
6/02/2010 12:47:00 PM
Similar to 003 and 006. This is Dana Alexander's brain-child. Check out 311A in 003. The beat is a ghost town, it might have 200 people living in it tops. 624A on the other hand makes a little more sense.
So - don't get excited. She is like the battered woman who every now and then just can't take it anymore and wants the bum out - but only for the night. Watch for her next columns - nothing will change.
6/02/2010 10:42:00 PM
Excellent analogy and conclusion! You hit the proverbial nail on the head.
To: 6/02/2010 07:51:00 AM
Yeah, I work down here everyday as an ALJ now. My 2 favorite blocks are State between Washington and Madison where the former CPS honor students now matriculating at Westwood College (aka Gangbanger U) hang on the street hawking their "mix tape CDs", smoking, and generally acting like mutts above the law, and State just north of Jackson where the former CPS honor students now matriculating at that other play college, Everest, hang outside and actually work to step into your way and start shit.
But, some days at lunch, I confess I do walk around by the Everest "students" so I can get a cheap mild buzz off the blunts that they smoke right outside, open and notorious.
-- An Old Retired Sgt
Blogger NorthSide said...
9:40 AM - Box Chevy Phantom:
You're on a roll, my brother. Top of your game.
6/02/2010 11:51:00 PM
Hey John you ever consider being FOP PRESIDENT? You would be a shoo in, and greg bella who thinks he will be anointed will be gone,a "clean sweep"! What say you big John? Just do it!
my brothers and sisters in blue learn what i learned a long time ago.screw the system, take care of you and yours, survive to collect your pension and have a long and happy retirement.
signed a former i'm gonna save the world type to now sick and tired but happy.
Don't normally read the real long posts, but damn "The Box Chevy Phantom" that was some good shit.
Must be getting pretty fucked up on the south side for Mary Mitchell to write something agreeing with police officers.
Anonymous said...
Off Topic:
Ok, let's just say someone is stealing something off my back porch right outside my kitchen door. Can I stab them? Because I don't have a gun. And it's not an enclosed back porch but it is about the size of a small room.
I'm serious.
---not a cop
6/02/2010 04:10:00 PM
If you are in real fear for you life you can stab them, beat them to death with a baseball bat, shove a screwdriver in their eyeball, hit them with a claw hammer, shove your finger in their eye socket, bite them to death, in short, do what you need to do to protect your life.
Anonymous said...
mo prah will not back you up
burge put murderes in jail now everyone wants his head
let the citizens shoot burglars
to protect themselves we sure can't the more burglars shot and killed by law abiding citizens the better
crime will go down
6/02/2010 11:11:00 PM
Thank you, ghost of E.E. Cummings.
Anonymous said...
Thank god I have a gun Mr. Mayor!
6/02/2010 07:11:00 PM
Careful; that might be perceived as a threat to Hizzonner
To 6/02/2010 09:40:00 AM
Brilliant! Wish I wrote it.
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