Crime in Chicago -- Chicago Tribune

Chicago, ILL is on the list of cities I have no desire to visit ever lobe live there LTC (Join to see). The Mayor Daley political machine may no longer be in charge; but, it certainly seems that corruption dies a hard death in Chicago.
For a city which outlaws guns it is certainly ironic that so many are killed or wounder by guns.

The problem is wider and deeper then guns and gangs. Many of the kids that join gangs come from one parent homes, abusive homes, dysfunctional families and poor neighbors. They see gangs as a 'stable constant family'~ 'they belong'. I know my comment sounds like an oxymoron. But, I conducted research on gangs in college and as an RN to see what drove these kids to a life of violence , drugs and crime. They are bored (most are dropouts) have so much pent up hate and anger, they feel this is their only 'out'. Sad but true! I have met with several gang bangers, they know their lifestyle is wrong, bad and has a no win ending . With much coaching, tough love, support and supervision, some do turn around.

I did a breakdown of Chicago shootings and where they are happening. The picture shows the communities being affected. From what I found is 17% percent of the population is being affected by over half of the gun related violence. Its beyond out of control. Recently way out in my safe suburb 20 miles due west of Chicago - Glen Ellyn - a college student was kidnapped off the street in broad daylight. He was forced to withdrawal money from various ATM's - $2,000. His captors gave him $20 and left him downtown Chicago where he immediately notified the police. Very lucky not to have been killed. One suspect that is wanted is Jeremy Jones - not the Chicago Bears one - but the gang member one with a rather long rap sheet. I was trying to see if the 2 whites shot for every black was correlated to criminal activity in areas with abnormal racial distributions. Chicago in general from the 2000 census is 31% white, 32% black and 29% Hispanic. I would bet other cities and urban areas do not match the 63% white 17% black national demographics. I'm curious if BLM is taking this into consideration as based on localized demographics for Chicago it would mean cops are oppressing whites not blacks as it should be 1 to 1 not 2 to 1.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/wheaton/news/ct-wheaton-college-kidnapping-0 [login to see] 2-story.html

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-24/news/ct-met-teenage-revenge-plot-20121224_1_gang-members-chicago-cops-elgin-teenager