After bloody weekend, Chicago mayor pleads for help: 'You're not a snitch'

[Ptarmigan]

After bloody weekend, Chicago mayor pleads for help: 'You're not a snitch'
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/28/13526429-after-bloody-weekend-chicago-mayor-pleads-for-help-youre-not-a-snitch?lite

So says the guy who wants to ban Chick-Fil-A from Chicago. 

[thundley4]

I thought Louis Farrakhan was there with his thugs to help prevent violence?

Emanuel said police have moved in more officers, removed guns and drugs off the street, and over the weekend, arrested 307 people and confiscated more than 100 weapons during several drug busts across the city.

Gun control laws work at keeping guns away from criminals, don't they?

[DumbAss Tanker]

You're not a snitch to Rahm, maybe, but your neighbors and 'Associates' probably have a completely different take on that.

[Airwolf]

I'll go with DAT on this. You open your pie hole and expect to be running for the border because that will be the only place you will be safe.

[thundley4]

I'll go with DAT on this. You open your pie hole and expect to be running for the border because that will be the only place you will be safe.

I kind of sees Rahm's point in this though. At some point, the people living in these crime areas have got to band together against the gangs and take their neighborhoods back from the thugs.

[Jasonw560]

"but we have to pass stronger gun laws in this state. We're not talking about repealing conceal/ carry, but making sure we have a tougher set of laws dealing with assault weapons and other types of guns."

Yeah....how's that working out for you so far?

As far as communities coming together to take back their neighborhoods, how? If they have stricter laws, they'll be the ones getting locked up.

[thundley4]

Yeah....how's that working out for you so far?

As far as communities coming together to take back their neighborhoods, how? If they have stricter laws, they'll be the ones getting locked up.

Illinois doesn't have any legal carry laws.

As for taking their neighborhoods back, it starts with standing up, demanding more police in the area and getting people to cooperate with the police. 

[Bondai]

I kind of sees Rahm's point in this though. At some point, the people living in these crime areas have got to band together against the gangs and take their neighborhoods back from the thugs.

But they won't. They have been taken care of for so long they have no idea how to do anything for themselves. Besides there is no way they are going to oppose the government massa.

[Evil_Conservative]

Why does Rahm care?  He told the gang bangers to stop targeting the kids... so they are targeting other people now.  They were only following the directions of their mayor.

[DumbAss Tanker]

But they won't. They have been taken care of for so long they have no idea how to do anything for themselves. Besides there is no way they are going to oppose the government massa.

And that is exactly the way the Dem machine has kept them, since it does its best to deny them any means of force for self-protection, and it would take a police presence equivalent to military occupation troops with checkpoints every other block to enforce the kind of security it would take to keep anyone who did snitch alive.

The whole banding together and standing up to the criminals only works when the criminals actually have some kind of limits they won't exceed.

[thundley4]

And that is exactly the way the Dem machine has kept them, since it does its best to deny them any means of force for self-protection, and it would take a police presence equivalent to military occupation troops with checkpoints every other block to enforce the kind of security it would take to keep anyone who did snitch alive.

The whole banding together and standing up to the criminals only works when the criminals actually have some kind of limits they won't exceed.

I thought that some city had tried setting up checkpoints in some liberal haven, but they were accused of profiling and had to shut them down.  DC or Chicago?

[DumbAss Tanker]

I thought that some city had tried setting up checkpoints in some liberal haven, but they were accused of profiling and had to shut them down.  DC or Chicago?

Something like that happened in NOLA, I recall.

[thundley4]

Something like that happened in NOLA, I recall.

I found it.  DC police had set up checkpoints in some violence prone neighborhoods, but they were ruled unconstitutional.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071002750.html

[Karin]

The anti-snitch mindset is firmly ingrained in the culture.  No amount of pleading from one Rahm Emmanuel is going to change that.  He's in way over his head.  I don't know what the answer is.  Even the parents are volunteering to be the driver to go whack some guy. 

[CG6468]

When the temperature drops in Chicago, so does the murder rate.

[Jasonw560]

When the temperature drops in Chicago, so does the murder rate.

I have the answer, then.

True Conservative gets elected in Chicagograd= hell freezing over= cold weather= crime goes down

[JohnnyReb]

What Chicago needs is a "Community Organizer".

[DefiantSix]

What Chicago needs is a "Community Organizer".

I'll be happy to give them back the one they gave us in 2009.