NYPost - The ‘Ferguson effect’ is destroying Chicago

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Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
For every black killed by a cop, dozens are killed by other blacks. But the press says you can't say that.

http://nypost.com/2016/07/09/how-the-ferguson-effect-is-destroying-chicago/

july 9 2016 Violence in Chicago is reaching epidemic proportions. In the first five months of 2016, someone was shot every 2¹/₂ hours and someone murdered every 14 hours, for a total of nearly 1,400 nonfatal shooting victims and 240 fatalities.

Over Memorial Day weekend, 69 people were shot, nearly one per hour, dwarfing the previous year’s tally of 53 shootings over the same period. The violence is spilling over from the city’s gang-infested South and West sides into the downtown business district; even Lake Shore Drive has seen drive-by shootings and robberies.

The growing mayhem is the result of Chicago police officers’ withdrawal from proactive enforcement, making the city a dramatic example of what I have called the “Ferguson effect.”

Through the end of May, shooting incidents in Chicago were up 53 percent over the same period in 2015, which already had seen a significant increase over 2014. Compared with the first five months of 2014, shooting incidents in 2016 were up 86 percent. Shootings in May citywide averaged nearly 13 a day, a worrisome portent for summer.
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I must have missed the prohibition of the press reporting on black-on-black crime. Is it in a separate article by Heather Mac Donald, or is it a figment of your imagination?
 
Legion Troll said:
I must have missed the prohibition of the press reporting on black-on-black crime. Is it in a separate article by Heather Mac Donald, or is it a figment of your imagination?
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have you by chance noticed the disparity between press coverage of the single shooting in Baton Rouge compared with press coverage of the daily shootings in Chicago?......
 
are not more white people killed by white people each year?


why don't you white racist care about those white people
 
evince said:
are not more white people killed by white people each year?


why don't you white racist care about those white people
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How do you so called white racists don't care?

I think the black on black crime comes up because what most people see is black people have an issue (rightly so) with blacks being killed by white cops or white people. What I rarely ever see and I think others to, is black people making an issue over black people killing each other. If black lives matter, it shouldn't matter what color the person is who is doing the killing, right?
 
Another thing killing chicago is that it's a gun-free zone. Non-vehicular violent crime would essentially vanish overnight if everyone had a gun or a can of bear spray on them at all times. Knives are a good choice too, at least for men.
 
Text Drivers are Killers said:
Another thing killing chicago is that it's a gun-free zone.
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It is?


Chicago has banned the possession of certain semi-automatic firearms that it defines as assault weapons. Chicago residents must immediately report a firearm that is stolen or lost, and must report the transfer of a firearm within 48 hours of such transfer. In a home where a person younger than 18 is present, all guns must be secured with a trigger lock, or stored in a locked container, or secured to the body of the legal owner.

Chicago formerly prohibited the sale of firearms within city limits, but on January 6, 2014, a federal judge ruled that this was unconstitutional.[51] The judge granted the city's request for six months to pass new laws regulating gun shops. On June 25, 2014, the city council passed a new law, allowing gun stores but restricting them to certain limited areas of the city, requiring that all gun sales be videotaped, and limiting buyers to one gun per 30-day period. Store owners must make their records available to the police, and employees must be trained to identify possible straw purchasers.

With the passage of the gun shop ordinance, Chicago also struck a previous total ban on the "transfer" of ammunition within city limits, limiting the ban only to gun shows, which, due to state preemption on handgun ammunition, only applies to long gun ammunition.

Cook County has banned the possession of certain semi-automatic firearms that it has defined as assault weapons. Residents must report to the county sheriff within 48 hours any firearms that are stolen, lost, destroyed, or sold or otherwise transferred. The sheriff may share this information with other law enforcement agencies. Licensed firearms dealers must provide information to the county regarding purchasers and the guns they purchase, and receive approval before conducting sales. An individual may not purchase more than one firearm in a 30-day period. In a home where a person younger than 21 is present, all guns must be secured with a trigger lock, or stored unloaded in a locked container separate from the ammunition, or secured to the body of the legal owner. In Cook County, local laws, such as those of Chicago, take precedence over county laws that regulate similar matters. Cook County imposes a twenty-five dollar tax on the sale of any firearm by a retail dealer, in addition to the usual county sales tax. The county also has a tax on the sale of ammunition — five cents per round for centerfire ammunition and one cent per round for rimfire ammunition.

The possession of firearms that have been variously defined as assault weapons is also illegal in Lincolnwood, Skokie, Evanston, Highland Park, North Chicago, Melrose Park, Riverdale, Dolton, Hazel Crest, Homewood, and the part of Buffalo Grove that's in Cook County. The storage or transportation of assault weapons is restricted in Morton Grove, Winnetka, Deerfield, Country Club Hills, and University Park. Sales and transfers of assault weapons are prohibited in Niles. In December 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Highland Park's assault weapons ban

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Illinois#Local_laws
 
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