Rahm In Chitown

[dellinger63]

By no means am I a Rahm fan but the murder problem in Chicago has nothing to do with him. He's tried to raise mandatory minimums for gun crimes and was denied because it would unfairly target minorities (African Americans) as they are the ones most often charged. He's put more police on the street, focused on the few small areas responsible for 90% of the violence etc. etc.

The argument that Rahm's raise in the mandatory/minimum sentence unfairly targeting minorities ignores the fact that in Chicago 75% of murder victims and 70% of murder offenders are African American. It makes perfect sense they are the ones most often charged. If any one person needs to be blamed it's Jesse Sr.

BTW as I stated in a previous thread the gun violence in Chicago for the most part is gang related only instead of drug dealers shooting it out over corners you now have tweeners killing over social media insults.

The 13 people that were recently shot in the park at 10:30 at night were Gangster Disciples including the family members of the 3-year old.

For the most part the murder rate in Chicago is much more of a small neighborhood problem rather than city-wide. And the majority of murders committed involve criminals killing criminals. It only becomes national news when a innocent 3-year old child, albeit a child from a family of gangsters, is a victim. And today I heard some dingbat on CNN blame the healthcare system in Chicago for the high murder rate.