The Contrarian Demonizes
Damnit, didn't they get the word from Conehead? No demonizing!
I was strolling through the park one day in the merry, merry month of July (as the old song goes) when I stumbled upon something that perfectly captures the absurdity of Chicago’s approach to crime. It was a Lime scooter, not particularly remarkable in itself, except for one detail: It was covered in gang graffiti. Think about that for a moment. Not a wall. Not an abandoned building. Not a railroad viaduct. A rented electric scooter that exists for one purpose — to move people from Point A to Point B. Apparently, even that has become gang territory.
Now, I realize this is anecdotal evidence. One scooter does not constitute a scientific study. But it does illustrate something everyone in Chicago already knows and our political leadership desperately tries not to acknowledge: The overwhelming majority of serious violence in this city is connected to gangs. Not poverty alone. Not climate change. Not racism. Not a lack of social workers. Not a shortage of government programs. Gangs.
The problem is obvious. In some neighborhoods, everybody knows who the gang members are. Chicago Police know who they are. The neighbors know who they are. The victims certainly know who they are. Yet somehow our political class continues to treat gang violence as though it were a random weather phenomenon rather than the predictable result of organized criminal behavior. Every weekend we see the same headlines: Drive-by shootings, retaliatory shootings, street-corner shootings, carjackings, armed robberies. Again and again, investigators discover gang connections. Again and again, the same names, the same crews, the same neighborhoods, the same feuds.
It hasn't changed in our lifetimes, now in our sixth decade. And prior to that, it hadn't altered much then either. It was always a core group of assholes driving the disorder and violence....and it was always explained away by all manner of bullshit.
It may be finally petering out. We've certainly noticed it in other locations that aren't blue state shitholes run by lib-tarded morons.
Go read it all.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
21 Comments:
Politicians and Gold Star bosses tie officers hands with bad policy and aide the criminals.
Sorry, fat chance of gangs going away. Saw a Divvy bike in downtown Evanston covered in gang tags. When the political leaders turn a blind eye, or worse, say the youths are misunderstood, and continue to ignore the issue, it will grow and spread. Sad but true.
Mostly in the hood where it and the players originates. Yes occasionally it spills in to nicer parts of the city, just the cost of voting blue. Now move along nothing to see.
Conehead be a raggedy fool. Time for the cone to go back to the nuttso unit for another meltdown. Conehead looking mighty raggedy these days.
Better get those damned "Proud Boys" and shut 'em down! 🤣
As long as they keep killing each other have at it
if you want to get rid of it you have to start incarcerating all of them. charge them all under RICO, like those fuckers up far away forever.
forget separating them in prison 2, let him fight it out there, kill each other, I don't give a shit, but I want my neighborhood back!
You never really hear any politician or media say its "Gang Related" anymore when we have mass shootings or even black on black..Whos shooting at our kids??? Carjackings??? Shooting at police?? It's almost like a taboo word nowadays.the last shooting in 016 on Forest Preserve Dr and Addison st...gang related, the stabbing at Peterson and Harlem, gang related, cmon media say it like it is. Bj will say we have no gangs in Chicago.
I watched it play out first hand in Marquette Park in the 80-90's. We laughed at first at the newly arrived "gang members" from pilsen, little village, but it all got out of hand, quick. Guess the 8th dist tact was only used to dealing with the white kids and nickel bags.
I heard my momma cry the night Chicago died---1974. The song was about a wife anxiously awaiting the return home of her police officer husband after a shootout between the police and Al Capone's gangsters.
Shitbags like the revruns also know.
The shitheads probably spray paint the scooters while somebody's riding them.
The Contrarian columnists have been on fire lately. Good stuff
Parents don't parent, and that idea of it taking a village to raise a child is toast because the village is run by idiots.
It is empirical that drugs are the apex of crime. The gangs kill to crowd out competition and the addicts steal to fund their end. A closed doom loop.
Stop being politically correct. Crime is out of control because of black people in Chicago. They conservatively account for over 90% of the crime.
And what, I may ask, are the overwhelming majority of gangs connected to?
Ghetto ass culture.
Nailed it
My Daddy was a cop.....on the east side of Chicago....
Bingo!
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