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Largely because the 762 homicides that the Chicago Police Department is acknowledging for the year isn’t even close to the 943 homicides of 1992 or the 931 of 1994.
BUT
SOME 762 people who presumably ought to still be living amongst us, but are
not, is still a tragedy worthy of our outrage.
Although
let’s be honest. Trump could care less about the situation in Chicago. When he
throws out his stupid little Tweets or other statements that take pot shots at
our fair city, he’s doing so because he knows the reason he didn’t take
Illinois in the Electoral College is because Chicago has far too much sense to
fall for his bunk!
We’re
going to be the target of many a cheap shot in coming years. Perhaps that is
the way the cosmos balances everything out, for the way in which Chicago had
extra super levels of clout and influence with the federal government during
the soon-to-be finished presidency of Barack Obama.
To
the degree that we’re going to be the setting of his “farewell” to the nation
come next Tuesday at the McCormick Place convention center (the same place
where he celebrated his 2012 re-election as president).
I
SUSPECT THAT if Illinois had gone for Trump and Chicago weren’t so blatantly
hostile to his nonsense, then Trump likely would find someone else to pick on.
Because
I don’t think Trump cares the least bit about the individuals who are amongst
the deceased. I suspect many of the kinds of people who actually voted for
Trump probably have a sarcastic thought going through their head that the world
is a better place without those specific individuals.
Who,
after all, came largely from the parts of Chicago that were much less white
than the average, and in some cases were the parts where Trump got maybe 2
percent or so of the overall vote.
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| Returning to re-election scene for his farewell to nation |
IF
ANYTHING, THIS is a problem we are going to have to settle ourselves. And we
certainly have it within ourselves to do so.
Because
I can remember the days when I was a reporter-type person covering criminal
activity in Chicago (the late 1980s) when it seemed like it averaged out 2 ½ killings
per day. Which actually meant that murder wasn’t uncommon, and every now and
again we’d get a particularly bloody weekend that pushed up the overall total.
We saw our homicide rate plummet into the 400s, which was close to the old days of the 1920s – when the statement was oft made that there were 365 killings a year in Chicago (one for every single day).
What
accounts for the sudden surge in slayings? I’m sure the academic types who
spend their lives weeding through numbers to try to analyze them can offer up
their own theories.
BUT
WE TRULY are better off resolving this ourselves – particularly if it means we
can deny Trump the “stupid talk” of sending in troops to the Sout’ Side of
Chicago to resolve order.
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He spews such images because he wants to create the image for those parts of the country that want to believe the worst. The partisan political nature of all the homicide rate trash talk is a large part of why I can’t take any of it seriously.
Such
as every time Trump will claim that Chicago tops New York AND Los Angeles when
it comes to crime – which I sense is a statement that partially pains Trump to
make.
He’s
probably like to claim that all three cities have crime rates on the rise – and
that it is because of the lack of Trump that causes the natives to want to hurt
each other. Then again, he’ll probably use his own interpretation of “the truth”
to make such a statement anyway!
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