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Another Westside Story!


On 7/6/20 I read an article in the NYT about the increasing gun violence in Chicago, and a lot of what follows is from that article. This article was basically detailing the innocent children who are unintended casualties in this mayhem. Since 6/20 there have been nine children, less than eighteen years old, killed by guns on the west and the south side of Chicago, and this does not include the total stats for this past July Fourth weekend. So far at least two youths were shot and killed on July Fourth . . . a fourteen year old boy on the South side and a seven year old girl on the West side.

Within the last two weeks, Sincere Gaston, 20 months old was shot and killed while he sat in his car seat in the backseat of his mother’s car – she was driving home from a laundromat.

Also James Mekhi, 3y/o, was shot and killed as he sat in the backseat of his step father’s car. (In an accompanying picture of the location of where he was killed was a sign for West Suburban Hospital . . . my wife was born at this hospital, and it is located less than a mile from where I went to grade school.

“The Windy City is becoming the Bloody City,” said the Rev. Michael L. Pfleger of Saint Sabina Church, calling it the worst period in the 45 years he has worked on social issues. “I have never seen the despair, hopelessness and anger all mixed together at the level it is right now.”

Okay, I think all would agree that this situation is a disaster. What to do? Less law enforcement? More law enforcement?

More ?

The police too are feeling the strain as they try to confront both the violence in the city and the pandemic. “All of the people and organizations that we usually depend on to respond to homicide and violent crime are overburdened right now,” said Thomas Abt, a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice.

Less?

Distrust of the police is also a contributing factor as many residents of the hardest-hit neighborhoods feel reluctant to call on law enforcement

People who have lost trust in the police are more prone to settle scores on their own, experts said. “The lack of trust, the lack of confidence in police and the lack of willingness to use police, I think is going to have a broader effect,” said Mr. Abt.

To me it seems that no one knows what to do. Certainly the approach of the politicians in Chicago, to put it politely, is to ignore the problem . . . at least that’s what it seems like. Perhaps, they ignore it because there is no answer!

So what is the answer for the black families that live on the Westside and/or the Southside of Chicago? They are trapped in a dysfunctional city. As of July second there have been 336 murders in the city. You can be killed driving from the laundromat or attending a block party. Recently one of the children who was murdered, had the audacity to be sitting in her living room watching TV!

To my way of thinking, there is only one thing to do . . . Move out of Chicago. 

Leave! Get out!

But where? . . . Anywhere, but not to another big city.

If “Black Lives Matter” really wanted to help Black lives, they would expedite and facilitate a Chicago exodus.

Update: In Chicago this past weekend 69 people were shot and 16 were killed. I am waiting for a comment on this from BLM, or the Illinois Democrats.

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