Chicago: Murder rate sparks political spats

the city is being shot up by gangbangers.. and city civic leaders blame it on the 'nihlism' that over-policing has produced in the inner-city..? that's a complete mis-diagnosis of the situation.. absentee fathers, drug abuse, and domestic abuse are destroying inner city households.. the police have to come in and try and keep these communities together..and then they get blamed for the problems that exist before their arrival?..honestly imagine how high murder & overdose rates would be without their presence ?.. put the magnifying glass on the real roots of these problems.. the real villains are (spiritually & physically)absentee 'urban' parents..

Be sure to keep the innocents and Good Guys from shooting back. Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth.

By all means...keep the populace defenseless. Keep them boarded up in their homes. Keep them from being able to fend for themselves. That way, they must rely on the state to provide for their every need.

I see the politically correct leftist are hard at work trying to figure out what is wrong. Well it is simple the left has controlled Chicago for a long time and their programs of not teaching right from wrong, not teaching morals and destroying the family as well as disarming the victims have created a mess. Why don't you go back to the basics of crminal justice and punish the crminnals instead of just trying to stop the "cycle of violence"? Make the punishment for lower level gang crimes humilating and be sure the small kids see the gangbangers being humilated, this will stop the small kids from becoming gangbangers.

So,t he gangs in Chicago are having turf wars, are killing each other for drugs, believe that it's OK to kill (and take pride in it!), and generally are making each other's lives a living hell, but it's the cops who get the majority of the blame here, according to the City Counsel? Man, the City Counsel is CRAZY! It's not the fault of the police, it's the fault of the criminals who are actually the ones killing each other. No amount of "intervention" is going to change that, unless the "intervention" included a strong commitment to the police and law enforcement by city officials. Without the police, Chicago is going to find out just what anarchy really is.

Obama's Chicago area is the murder capital. And some people think this muslim should be President????

Chicago can't blame the Republicans, there aren't any. How is Sen. Obama going to lead and manage the country as president when he cannot manage his own senatorial jurisdiction that is in a mess.