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pothead wrote:
> On 2025-09-05, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 08:56:00 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-09-04 07:31, NoBody wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 19:56:39 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-09-02 07:40, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 19:03:47 -0000 (UTC), pothead
>>>>>> <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2025-09-01, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2025-09-01 10:05, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Shouldn't the governor take a hint and enforce laws in Chicago?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> At least 53 people have been shot, seven fatally, across Chicago over
>>>>>>>>> Labor Day weekend, including a drive-by attack that left seven victims
>>>>>>>>> wounded, according to police.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The violent holiday weekend came as President Donald Trump renewed
>>>>>>>>> threats to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago
>>>>>>>>> over the objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor
>>>>>>>>> Brandon Johnson.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Trump on Saturday sent a warning to Pritzker in a post on his social
>>>>>>>>> media platform, referencing recent crime in Chicago and saying
>>>>>>>>> Pritzker "better straighten it out, FAST, or we're coming!"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Pritzker, a Democrat, responded in a news conference a week ago to an
>>>>>>>>> earlier Trump threat to "straighten out Chicago, just like we did
>>>>>>>>> D.C.," by saying that the president's plan was "unprecedented and
>>>>>>>>> unwarranted. It is illegal, it is unconstitutional, it is
>>>>>>>>> un-American."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://abcnews.go.com/US/35-shot-weekend-chicago-governor-rejects-trumps-threat/story?id=125134744
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yeah cause crime and murder is better....
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So why isn't Trump sending troops any of the 91 other cities in the US
>>>>>>>> that have higher rates of violent crime?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Or the 21 cities that have higher rates of murder and non-negligent
>>>>>>>> manslaughter?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If this is really about making people safer, shouldn't you be sending
>>>>>>>> people to where they will do the most good?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The governor and mayor of Chicago were both all over the airwaves singing
>>>>>> >from the same hymnal, page 99, "Threat To Democracy" song.
>>>>>>> They are both disgusting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems they actually *want* people dead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They have a serious problem in Chicago.
>>>>>>> Funding illegal migrants when students in the school system can't read or write.
>>>>>>> Crime running rampant and not just this weekend, but EVERY WEEKEND.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And as usual the left is squawking "what about xxx city and yyy city which have higher
>>>>>>> crime rates" and so forth.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep.  Diversions all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tell that to the families of the people who lost their lives in Chicago over this and
>>>>>>> seemingly every weekend.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Again, it puzzles me why the left isn't concerned about protecting the citizens within
>>>>>>> their own communities?
>>>>>>> It makes no sense at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The politicians want their communities to be hellholes.  It's the only
>>>>>> possible answer.
>>>>> So if Trump is applying resources in places where the problem ISN'T worst...
>>>>>
>>>>> ...does he want those communities where it IS worst to be hellholes?
>>>>
>>>> This is your standard go to, run away response.
>>>> Stick to the topic of Chicago and the politicians' refusal to enforce
>>>> laws please.
>>>
>>> First prove that there is a "refusal to enforce laws".
>>>
>>> What laws?
>>
>>
>> A string of killings, shootings, and teen mobs taking over Chicago
>> streets worsened this weekend with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old
>> near “The Bean” sculpture off Michigan Avenue in Millennium Park. A
>> suspect was charged with second-degree murder, but 33 were shot this
>> weekend, five fatally. It’s the third such weekend within the last
>> month. Weekdays have been bad, too. Many say the city’s coming apart.
>> Why did they have to kill my Daddy,” asked one daughter last week
>> after two were slain in Humboldt Park. A woman was murdered after
>> trying to face down burglars in her Gresham home on the South Side.
>> Six more armed robberies were committed in several hours by a prolific
>> crew in Edgewater.
>>
>> At the root of it all: consequences for criminals are rare. That’s
>> shown by arrest rates we calculated from Chicago Police data for 2021
>> versus the baseline pre-Covid and pre-George Floyd year of 2019. It’s
>> also shown by actual prosecution rates for murder in both years. The
>> big take-away: until they get a tougher message, the bad actors won’t
>> let up.
>>
>> Chicago arrest rates are encouraging to criminals, and discouraging to
>> the law-abiding. A recent four-year crime data summary report from CPD
>> details how many major crimes have been committed in selected
>> categories. Combined with corresponding arrest data in CPD’s 2019
>> Annual Report and from CPD’s response to our public records request
>> about 2021 arrest totals, we were able to calculate arrest rates for
>> 2019 and 2021 for several major crimes. We focused on categories
>> devoid of statistical noise. The results are alarming.
>>
>> The arrest rate for motor vehicle theft dropped from 27 percent in
>> 2019 to 10 percent in 2021. For aggravated battery it dropped from 20
>> percent in 2019 to 11 percent in 2021. For robbery it declined from 16
>> percent in 2019 to 9 percent in 2021. Even those that dropped only
>> slightly from 2019 to 2021 were alarmingly low last year. The arrest
>> rate in 2021 for criminal sexual assault in Chicago was only 19
>> percent. For burglary it was 5 percent.
>>
>> https://wirepoints.org/crime-but-few-arrests-and-prosecutions-in-chicago/
> 
> All points that the left ignore.
> And if Trump went to a city other than Chicago, they would be whining "why
> isn't Trump going to Chicago?".
> 
> Anything to attack Trump is what the left is all about.
> 
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