ChiGoose

You made the claim that there was a purge law. You now refuse to provide any evidence to back your claim and instead try to distract. It’s really hard to take your rantings as credible in any way. Next time, do your homework before coming to someone who actually lives in Chicago with absolute nonsense like a purge law. I’d like to stop criminals from getting guns in the first place, but that would require the Republican Party actually caring about dead kids. Which is about as likely winning the lotto. You seem to only care about crime after it happens, which seems like a poor way to prevent it. You also seem to have a very poor grasp on how law enforcement works, what proponents of reform actually want and what is truth versus what is fiction. Also, it’s kind of interesting how quickly threads on this site end up with blaming black people for problems…

Quite a lot of text and absolutely no citation or evidence to support the ludicrous claim of a purge law.

Oh no! Memes!?!! Memes about Chicago??? That refutes everything! Shut it down people! We don’t need peer reviewed science, facts, data, basic logic, or a single citation to literally anything; somebody on the internet has memes! Lol. What a joke. The purge law?!? You cannot possibly be so gullible as to believe that nonsense. I refuse to believe that there are people that dumb who can still write words. And yet, here we are. Rochester is more deadly than Chicago but I don’t see anyone here constantly railing about that. You’re all drinking the Kool Aid solely because it makes you feel good. Maybe spend a little time actually trying to understand reality and the issues or you can just shut up and go back to your circle jerk.

I think this is a good example of what I’ve trying to point out: people with no knowledge of the situation taking sensationalist headlines and pretending they know what they are taking about. Chicago actually ranks number one for business relocations and expansions. Sure, some companies leave, but many more move in. “Many point to the departures of big employers such as Caterpillar and Citadel as examples. Boeing also is frequently cited, although its headquarters move from Chicago involved few jobs being shifted. “I guess data can belie the perception,” said Adam Bruns, the magazine’s managing editor. “High-profile departures can sometimes overshadow the arrivals.” He said Cook and its nearby counties are reaping the benefits of location in the center of the country and access to a deep labor pool. Bruns also said Chicago has enjoyed “good sustainable momentum in a number of economic sectors,including technology, life sciences and data centers. The region’s leaders, he said, are cooperating to meet challenges with “creative solutions, bold programs and the sort of candor and openness that’s almost Chicago’s brand.” For 2022, Site Selection counted a record 448 business relocations or expansions in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro area, which takes in southeast Wisconsin and northwest Indiana. It finished ahead of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, which had 426 projects to rank second among metros with a population of more than 1 million people.“ The idea that Chicago is in a death spiral is laughable to anyone who actually lives here. Keep scapegoating and pushing your ignorance. Chicago will be just fine.

Florida’s gun laws are stricter than Indiana’s

Adding Poona Ford and holding onto DaQuan Jones means that Oliver can play more to his skills. I expect the coaches think he’s likely to have a breakout year and this would lock him in under what he’d get on the open market. It also, I believe, creates cap space for this year if they want to go get someone. It’s a gamble but I don’t mind the risk.

I don’t think there’s anything the city can do to stop the gun violence. So long as criminals can easily get guns from Indiana (and to a lesser extent Wisconsin) and bring them here, Chicago will always be an outlier for gun violence. What the city can and should do is focus on investing in the problematic neighborhoods. I had posted a long response a couple of posts ago, but Chicago has basically disinvested in certain neighborhoods and that’s primarily where we see the violent crime. Addressing the root causes that lead someone to commit crimes before they do will help mitigate the issue. Invest in schools, eliminate food deserts, provide wraparound services, replace lead service lines, increase the number of violence interrupters, etc. The city is currently expanding its summer work program where older kids can work and get paid during the summer, which is great to see. It helps keep them off the streets and provides them a path to stability. More things like that would help.

It sounds so ridiculous it’s almost as if it isn’t what he said at all. Needing permission to host an event for singing the national anthem in a building =\= needing permission to sing the national anthem in the city.

There are many reasons Chicago is an outlier in gun violence when compared to NYC and LA. As I stated several times, the real outliers for homicides are St. Louis and New Orleans, but because they are smaller, they don’t have as large raw numbers and therefore don’t generate the clickbait headlines. A large driver of the violence is that Chicago borders one state with lax gun laws and is less than two hours from another. Illinois and Chicago have enacted gun laws that have made it difficult for criminals to get guns here, but they can still get them next door. That’s why around 60% of the guns used in crimes here come from out of state. One Indiana store less than 5 miles from the city is responsible for over 800 guns recovered from crime scenes in Chicago alone. Neither NYC nor LA have this problem and there’s very little any Dem in Chicago can do to stop it. People on this board seem to think that just because someone has a “D” after their name that they all believe the same things and policies. This despite the fact that the Chicago mayoral election that just happened was between two Dems with very different views on how to handle crime. One simply wanted to hire more cops. The other wanted more detectives and more focus on preventative measures. It’s telling that all of the neighborhoods with high crime rates voted for the latter, not the former. That might have something to do with the fact that Chicago has 1.5-2x as many cops per resident as similar sized cities. Throwing more cops at the problem would be the definition of doing the same thing and expecting different results. Combining our high number of cops to handle crime when it occurs with an effort to stop crime before it occurs by addressing the root causes of crime seemed to resonate with the people most affected by crime. Also, Chicago always has had contentious politics, even if the politicians ostensibly belonged to the same party. Just look at the Council Wars of the 1980’s. Chicago also has a history is disinvestment in certain areas of the city. Despite routinely ranking highly on things like business relocations, tourism, etc, Chicago also has food deserts: areas where there is little to no access to fresh food like produce. We also closed down dozens of schools in a way that necessitates kids crossing gang territory to get to school. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that these same areas often still have lead service lines as well. In these areas, we’ve basically created incubators for crime through this disinvestment. Kids growing up poor with little opportunity, having to travel through dangerous areas to get an education, potentially impacted by polluted water. They might see crime as the only way they can “make it” or even gang life as the only way to have protection to get around safely. No amount of “tough on crime” policy is going to fix that. There has always been a tension between investment in the business districts, especially the Loop, versus the surrounding neighborhoods. When you have easy access to guns due to neighboring red state policies combined with people growing up in pockets of the city where there is a lack of opportunity due to disinvestment, you’re going to have violent crime. Mayors can have an effect on the latter issue, trying to balance a business friendly environment with generating enough revenue to invest in the city. But there isn’t much they can do about the guns. So long as Indiana (and to a lesser degree Wisconsin), make it easy to smuggle guns into Chicago, the city is going to have a gun problem. So yeah, when people say that the problem is “voting Dem” they are ignoring the fact that there is a variety of types of Dems in the city, and the fact that one of the biggest drivers of gun violence in Chicago is the Republicans next door. Making a joke out of someone’s dead grandparents is exactly the kind of performative assholery that defines the modern GOP.

Nah, good faith disagreement is fine. Willful ignorance is just tough to tolerate. Not that it matters, but I own my home, I actually live in Chicago and my grandparents have been dead for years. But you can keep on being foolish.

Buddy, you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Maybe just sit this one out instead of declaring your ignorance to the world.

Because it requires intentional ignorance to believe that all democratic candidates and policies are the same and that Chicago’s gun violence problem is solely the result of Chicago policies.

If your worldview is correct, you’re basically saying that the Democratic Party is completely incompetent and cannot stop crime and yet the GOP is still less appealing to voters. Maybe not the best argument, but you do you, buddy.

Is that the only lens you can see the world with? No room for complexity or nuance? Just political party?

What happens when you look at per capita? Or would that make too much sense and not fit the narrative?

The ignorance here is pretty astounding. It’s clear you know nothing about Chicago other than what your bubble force feeds you. The Daleys are gone, and Madigan is going to trial. The establishment mayoral candidate lost. Rochester has a higher homicide rate and Buffalo’s homicide rate is just shy of Chicago. And yet you spout nonsense about the machine and crime, pretending you know anything about what it’s like to live here. The violence capital of the country is a fight between St Louis and New Orleans. Chicago’s homicide rate isn’t even half off that of either of those cities, but I guess none of the actual facts fit your narrative. So just keep throwing stones and shouting your ignorance to the world. Maybe if the GOP had actual real solutions instead of just pandering to the ignorant, they would have a chance. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Do you ever think that doing the right thing is the right thing to do even if people you normally disagree with join your side? Just saying.

Or you’re just so tired of the immature, chaotic dumbassery of the current guy that you just want to move on to someone else.

Ah, so you’re just looking to find some way to blame America, huh?

This war was started by Russia, not the US.

Only if you live in a bubble. Trump was deeply unpopular and chaotic while the country was in the midst of a pandemic. Biden was boring old normalcy. It’s not a surprise at all to anyone actually paying attention.

A single source makes a claim and provides no named sources or official statements to back the claim. Time to break out the “jump to conclusions mats!” Any chance we want to wait until we learn more before throwing stones at each other?

Does Putin know that? The guy has surrounded himself with yes-men for the last couple of decades. He thought Ukraine would be a cakewalk. He has publicly lamented the fall of the USSR and “historical Russia.” Putin grew up in the KGB and after the fall of the USSR he apparently had to moonlight as a taxi cab driver to make ends meet. Now he’s old, there are rumors about his health and Russia is no longer the player it once was. He came to power through the war in Chechnya. He invaded Georgia. He invaded Ukraine twice. He clearly has eyes on Transnistria. This is what he does to consolidate power. That it seems to have backfired this time is both a sign of a man who has isolated himself from any criticism and the problems of running a kleptocracy.

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