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Chicago Elects First Gay Black Woman Mayor
Former federal prosecutor and political neophyte Lori Lightfoot made Chicago history Tuesday night when she won a runoff nonpartisan election to become Chicago’s first black woman, and first openly-gay candidate, ever elected mayor. Winning with a staggering 74% of the vote after parlaying her leadership of a task force on police killings, Lightfoot’s outsider status gave her a huge edge over her opponent, Toni Preckwinkle, the head of the Cook County Board of Commissioners and a former boss of the city’s Democratic Party, who was also a black woman.
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What Has Made America’s Inner Cities Into A Violent Warzone
The 312 homicides in Philly during 2017 are the highest since 2012. They are up 27% since 2013. If the economy has been improving and black unemployment is really as low as I’ve been told by Trump and the BLS, why would homicides in Philly be soaring?
The stories coming out from Chicago and Baltimore paint an increasingly pessimistic picture: that America’s inner cities are transitioning into a warzone, where violence has returned to levels not seen since the drug wars of the early 1990s.
Take for example Chicago, five men were killed and at least 20 people shot over the four-day Christmas holiday weekend. Last year, 59 people were shot over the same period, leaving 11 dead.
Across the United States, homicides rose about 9% last year with more than one-third of the increase concentrated in Chicago neighborhoods, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Despite the overall deterioration of American inner cities, there was some improvement in areas such as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., where declines in violent crimes have been in downward trajectories since the 1990s.
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America’s Urban War Zone: Baltimore Doubles Chicago’s Homicide Rate In 2017
Back in June, President Trump used Twitter to officially announce America’s urban crisis.
He hit the ground running calling out the death and destruction in Chicago.
Trump made it clear that he was “sending in Federal help” to contain the dying city.
Crime and killings in Chicago have reached such epidemic proportions that I am sending in Federal help. 1714 shootings in Chicago this year!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017
Since then, Trump’s focus has transitioned on to an international stage with North Korea’s ‘rocket man’ in a war of words battle.
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MEANWHILE….IN CHICAGO
9 dead, 30 wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago
CHICAGO –Nine people were killed and at least 30 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday night and Monday morning.
The weekend’s latest fatal shooting happened about 12:10 a.m. Monday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side. A 26-year-old man was standing next to a car in the 3000-block of West 60th Street when a tan vehicle drove by westbound and someone inside fired shots, according to Chicago police. The man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has not provided information on the fatality.
CHICAGO REAPS WHAT IT HAS SOWN
Guest Post by Ol’ Remus
Chicago disarmed its law-abiding citizens in 1982 with gun control laws that all but banned firearms from the city. Recently, Mayor Rahm Emanuel dissolved the gang task forces, relocated detective bureaus away from high crime districts … wink wink, and burdened beat cops with a kilo of ACLU paperwork for every street stop, no matter how minor.
Chicago Gangs Turn To “Armor-Piercing Rifles” In Police Ambush
by Tyler Durden
May 9, 2017 11:11 AM
Last week we noted that Chicago’s police officers were taking their own lives in record numbers…the devastating consequence of having to work everyday in the “war zone” that is Chicago (see: “Chicago Is A War Zone”: Police Suicide Rate Surges To 60% Above The National Average).
Now, yet another brutal weekend of violence and an ambush of police officers sitting in an unmarked vehicle offers a small glimpse of what Chicago police officers have to face on a daily basis. The escalation in violence this weekend even prompted Chicago’s police department to issue a new bulletin warning officers of an ongoing gang war in which “gunmen are using weapons powerful enough to pierce bullet-proof vests” which shows an increasing tendency to “arm themselves with weapons most associated with soldiers in battle.” Per the Associated Press:
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Gun-Controlled Chicago: Ten Shot at Memorial for Shooting Victim
Kind of ironic, don’t ya think?
If only Chicago had tough gun laws, this would never happen. Oh yeah, they have the toughest gun laws in the country.
Maybe they should ban shooting memorials.
Will Black Lives Matter be protesting this mass shooting? How about Jesse or Sharpton?
Maybe Obama can take time out from his $400k per speech tour to do some community organizing on the Southside and convince these rambunctious teens to stop shooting each other.
Ten people were shot–two fatally–on Sunday during a memorial for a Chicago man who had been shot and killed earlier in the day.
The shooting at the memorial occurred in Brighton Park around 5:20 pm.
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WEATHER UPDATE
Hat tip Dave L.
Snowstorms in Chicago Delays Hundreds Of Shootings
CHICAGO—The city of Chicago is steadily recovering from snowstorms that delayed hundreds of shootings and pushed numerous homicides across the city drastically behind schedule, public authorities announced. “Maintenance crews are worked diligently to restore public transportation, de-ice roads, and clear back alleyways so that Chicagoans could quickly resume shootings again,” Department of Streets and Sanitation spokesman Dave Michelson said. Heavy blizzards caused numerous homicide cancellations.
“But we’re backed up by about 35 deadly shootings at the moment, and we hope to restore regular death tolls as soon as possible. We apologize to anyone forced to postpone shootings or other killings and assure concerned murderers that they should now be free to resume slayings.” Authorities reported that murders were up and running in many parts of the city with just today four truant teenagers gunned down on Chicago’s South Side.
Chicago Violence “Totally Out Of Control” In January; City On Pace For Most Homicides In 2 Decades
Submitted by Joseph Jankowski via Planet Free Will
Chicago is starting the year 2017 much like it did 2016: plagued with violence.
The number of shootings in the month of January nearly duplicated the tally from the start of last year, which was the bloodiest year in Chicago in more than two decades.
According to Chicago police, January ended with 51 murders, one more than last year. Per HeyJackAss!, here is how the daily murder totals trended over the past month:
“We’re At The Edge Of A Terrible Period” – Chicago Cops Condemn “Sickening” Social Media Video Of Teen Kidnap, Attack
by Tyler Durden
Following the disgusting images broadcast live on Facebook of a teen white male being kidnapped, cut, and abused by several African-American youths yelling “F*** Donald Trump,” Chicago Police confirm the four people, who are all 18, were taken into custody but have not been formally charged.
The video has since been removed from YouTube but this is a clip:
As Reuters reports, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters the video that surfaced on Tuesday showing the attack was “sickening.”
CHICAGO FIELD TRIP
“YOU ARE SAFE IN CHICAGO”
GETTING IN BED WITH THE GOVERNMENT
The recent deal to keep Carrier jobs in the United States is not at all unusual. It only received so much press because Trump made it a campaign issue and saw an opportunity to record a big early PR victory before he even took office. Government and corporations cooperate, negotiate deals, scratch each others backs, kickback ill-gotten gains, and function as a career advancement funnel for corrupt politicians.
In reality, the intertwining of government and big business meets the definition of fascism. A centralized autocratic government that picks winners and losers, while suppressing un-favored companies or industries, meets the definition of fascism. Fascists let business remain in private hands, but use regulations, laws, tax benefits, and the distribution of goodies to control the economy. Big business serves politicians and government bureaucrats instead of their customers.
Our corporate fascist economic system benefits big businesses who have hundreds of lawyers, lobbyists, tax specialists, and accountants to comply with the tens of thousands of government regulations, indecipherable tax code, and ridiculous laws, while small businesses are driven into the ground. Small businesses have no political influence and no ability to influence the corrupt system. The big connected conglomerates receive the government subsidies, tax breaks, and preferential treatment. Corporate fascism at its finest.
City Of Chicago Working Around Clock To Clear 18 Inches Of Bullet Casings From Streets
With cartridge accumulations reaching two feet or more in some areas, experts say Chicago is on track for the highest annual ammunition-depth total on record.
CHICAGO—Promising that every effort would be made to limit the impact on residents’ day-to-day lives, Chicago officials announced Wednesday that a fleet of plows was working around the clock to clear more than 18 inches of fresh bullet casings that had blanketed the metropolitan area overnight.
Sources at the city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation confirmed that over 250 ammunition-removal vehicles had been deployed to deal with the knee-deep layer of spent cartridges, which have been steadily accumulating on Chicago’s streets, alleys, and pedestrian walkways since the previous evening.