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What the heck is going on in the Windy City?

by KingOfContentMarketing
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I live in a very dangerous area. It seems like Mayberry compared to the stories coming out of Chicago:

28 arrested after Michigan Avenue disturbance - chicagotribune.com

"This girl started blowing smoke in my face, and she flicked her cigarette ashes at me," said the woman. "I said: 'You need to put that out,' and the next thing I know there's all these girls that jumped on top of us."

They began punching her face and then went for her hair. She believes they had knives or box cutters, and padlocks possibly placed inside socks.

"I put my head down between my legs so they would stop beating me in the face, but they were trying to pull my face up and hit me more," she said. "They ripped out chunks of my hair, and I've got a black eye and bruises on my face, and all over my back and shoulder."

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Edit: Murders are down quite a bit. So there's that.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,3305505.story
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Are these people on drugs that make them aggressive and violent, or what? :confused:

    It's an extraordinary story.

    The parts of it that surprise me most are "The woman ran after them, though, and eventually got her purse back" (who'd run after them?!) and "went to the police station to press charges. Eleven teenagers were arrested" (how did the police find all eleven of them, and so quickly?!). :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    It's complicated Alexa. Because of PC bullsh**, our cops aren't just getting these kids off the street. Schools are not allowed to discipline them and many of the parents are ireresponsible, having babies to qualify for welfare. Nobody is allowed to discipline them, yes, some are on drugs. They commit crimes figuring nobody will know who they were anyway - or care because they are minors. The city is very over-populated with a very large poverty sector. Illegals are all over the place and feel they aren't beholden to the laws because they can just leave and don't really have any records here so aren't found as easily as a documented legal citizen. Business and gov officials there are so corrupt that corruption has become a way of life for the people there.

    They probably found them via camera unless the kids were still ganged together and easy to spot. There are cameras on about every street corner in that city.

    In short - there's a lack of responsible parenting and gov there. They need to threaten the welfare of any family who has criminal kids. They need to start TEACHING the kids in schools instead of just babysitting them when they bother to go - give them a vision of something beyond their poverty and crime. And - they need to lower the age they will deal with kids as an adult. A dangerous 15 year old is just as much a danger (if not more) than a dangerous adult and if they are going to be this dangerous, we deserve them to be taken off the streets as if they WERE adults.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Chicago has been known for having wild violence and the like for almost100 years, and probably more. All Heysal said here is certainly true, but past violence wasn't necessarily due to poverty.

    Steve
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