The view here in Chicago is that the police have stopped policing since Laquan MacDonald. They are usually outnumbered/provoked when trying to diffuse tense situations in tough neighborhoods and any physical response could wind up on youtube, perhaps out of context. So they just let everything play out on the streets.
My friend's 12yo kid was punched in the face and robbed of his cell phone on the way home from school in a nice neighborhood on the north side. The cops took 2 hours to show up and made no real effort to get descriptions of the muggers. The whole department is basically in donut mode, waiting to retire.
The killings will continue until the cops feel safe again and motivated to do their jobs. But I don't see any real momentum to fix that from current CPD leadership, Rahmfather (democrat), or the Governor (republican).
Change will have to come from grass roots community outrage or some type of Federal intervention.
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