13 thoughts on “The Violence In Chicago”

  1. I notice the story doesn’t have an answer for legitimate concerns about police abuses except “suck it up”.

    Such sentiment has proven deadly. The ability of law enforcement agencies to protect innocent life rests in large part upon the faith of those they serve. If good people aren’t willing to call the police, talk to the police, and trust the outcomes of the justice system, that system will become ineffective despite the best effort of its officers. Such is the case in Chicago.

    The problem here is that a lot of those officers aren’t providing their best effort. “Black Lives Matter” didn’t magically create distrust in a vacuum. In addition to some real world racism, I’ll note that there is substantial corruption, the legal theft of civil asset seizure (where police can take property without having to show that its owner(s) were involved in a crime), and other related bad law (particularly, the war on (some) drugs and criminalizing a variety of no-victim activities).

    I get that police are important, but that doesn’t excuse letting them turn into yet another violent gang with the monopoly of government force.

    1. There are a lot of legitimate concerns with police. Racism is rarely one of them. Blaming everything on racism allows people to ignore the real problems and alienates potential allies from working together on solutions. But then again, the goal of Democrats and their militant activist groups is not to solve problems or end racism.

  2. There is no irony in this article because “Black Lives Matter” isn’t a group that wants to save black lives. It is a political organization that is anti-police and wants more money, housing, and political power given to black people, even though they haven’t earned it. They can’t come out and say “We Hate Cops”, because they wouldn’t get the proper endorsements of the dim-witted celebs or the backing of folks in the Democratic Party.

    Unfortunately, folks like Karl (above) fall for the false narrative and either can’t or don’t want to see the reality. Black crime in the inner cities has always been a problem of the belief of those living there that they deserve things to be given to them, and if not given, they take as they please. Get in their way and they kill you. Police try to intervene, but to a great majority of folks living there, the police are the enemy (well, because that’s what everyone else says). If these movements really cared about black lives, they would work with the police to change the issues. They don’t, and as such, show they have no respect for black lives – just like the criminals who live in those places.

    1. Unfortunately, folks like Karl (above) fall for the false narrative and either can’t or don’t want to see the reality.

      Maybe if you don’t like BLM so much, you should support work to eliminate the injustice that they thrive off of?

      1. I very much am in support of the necessary laws and enforcement to eliminate the massive killings in those areas.

        Stop the gun control nonsense in these cities – let law abiding citizens be armed legally. Enforce the laws that exist – and make gun crimes a minimum sentence. Support law enforcement in those areas. Promote education so the local folks can see for themselves what a waste BLM is to them and the blight they have become on the overall black community.

        1. “Stop the gun control nonsense in these cities . . . ”

          As I may have stated here before, since about 99% of the nation’s gun-owners do not use their guns to attack other people, and that most of the gun-related crime seems to originate in high-crime urban areas, I think anti-gun “liberals” should go to those areas and–using loudspeakers–proclaim, “We are NOT the police! In fact, we do NOT carry guns! Now please hand over your firearms now!”

          The results should be entertaining.

  3. Implicit in the BLM narrative is denial that the black community has some different character which would attract negative attention and hostile encounters with police. The incidence of black on black violence, however, suggests that there is a segment of criminality among the black community. And when violent (and probably foolish) criminals encounter police they can be expected to express violence and foolishness, attracting deadly force from the police. And this is exactly the story we find behind many of the violent encounters BLM puts forth as “police abuse”.

      1. Are you referring to the political movement spelled with a capital letter B and a capital letter L, or are you referring to people’s lives?

        1. Sadly, to many on the Left, and especially those who fervently support Black Lives Matter (yes, all Caps), black youths being killed by other black youths (or any crimes when blacks are being killed by folks that don’t promote the entire ‘Cops want to kill black men’ narrative) in fact do NOT matter. Politics over people’s lives – your Democratic Party in action.

        2. If BLM spent as much time, money, and effort dealing with non-police related problems in their communities rather than engaging in racial supremacism, physical intimidation, anti-police and anti-white protests, and advocating marxism, they would save more black lives.

          It is much easier to scapegoat the innocents than take a good look at the subcultures in our society that lead to the vast majority of black people being killed through violence. Solving that problem, would solve the problem of interactions with police officers too.

  5. The whole point of the exercise is to bring back 1968. Apparently they forgot who got elected that year.

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