Finally

Holy crap....blaming the correct causes of crime? The Contrarian has a good article up:

• Another weekend. Another mass shooting. Another round of official reassurances that “this wasn’t random.”

  But does that really make anyone feel safer?

  The latest bloodbath — four killed, 14 injured in a drive-by shooting outside a River North lounge — wasn’t some chaotic outburst by an unstable loner. It was, as police quickly pointed out, a targeted attack tied to an ongoing gang feud between factions from the South Side. The intended victims didn’t even live in River North. They were there for a party celebrating the release of an album by Chicago drill rapper Mello Buckzz, who, according to the Chicago Tribune, claims an affiliation with NLMB, a South Shore–based gang also known as “No Limit Muskegon Boyz.”

  The fact that this made front-page news is significant — not just for the carnage involved, but because the Tribune broke a longstanding media taboo: They named the gang. For years, mainstream outlets refused to do so, citing concerns about glorification or stigmatization. That taboo, thankfully, is now crumbling under the weight of grim reality. These gangs are responsible for a staggering share of the city’s gun violence, including many of its most horrific mass shootings.

Instead of blaming an inanimate object, the media is waking up to the fact that evil people do evil things, regardless of the tool used. And they offer concrete suggestions:

• It’s time to stop tiptoeing around this fact: Chicago’s mass shootings are overwhelmingly gang related. Gangs like NLMB and their rivals aren’t just “part” of the problem. They are the problem. And if city and county leaders are serious about stopping the bloodshed, they need to do more than issue statements. They need to take down these criminal networks — fully, aggressively, and without apology.

  The Tribune article makes clear what many Chicagoans already know but few politicians are willing to say out loud: These gangs are engaged in a multi-year cycle of retaliation and public slaughter. It’s not just one-off murders or isolated incidents. It’s a pattern. And that pattern fits perfectly within the legal framework of federal racketeering laws, particularly the RICO statute — a powerful tool the federal government has used to dismantle organized crime for decades.

For decades now, we've advocated for holding the criminals responsible, mostly via something like Project Exile that applied Federal Law to gun crimes and "exiled" offenders to prisons far from home and far from their gang influences for fifteen years at a time....or more. When instituted in Virginia, murders dropped by 33% within a year and shootings by at least that much.

But after the past few years of NOT holding criminals responsible for their actions at the local (Crimesha), state  and federal (drooling vegetable) levels, crime soared and homicide numbers climbed because democrats claim you can't arrest your way out of situation and they need those voters to not be in the Federal prison system.

As usual go read it all.