I seen on news that 92 shot in Chicago over the weekend , only about 3 hrs from here, that got be record in us , sound like mostly blacks do it, sound like shoot anything , don't make sense , where get all guns at ? Some like machine guns, used be bus locally where leave early sat am for Chicago round trip but discontinue to museum science industry or aquarium. Or zoo, was to science industry museum once that in Hyde park along lake once yrs back , always want go again someday but not interested drive my pickup there
not even that high for a hot long weekend in Chicago.
there is a web site to track possibly several
https://www.chicagotribune.com/data/ct-shooting-victims-map-charts-htmlstory.htmlsome of the reasons , Drugs , Gangs ,
drugs every street corner is a dispensary for the illegal drugs
these street corners are run by gangs , Chicago broke up the big gangs and now there are a lot of little gangs , as in every block is it's own gang in some cases and that is a lot of disputed territory.
policing budgets cut a long time ago , people just don't pay for murder like they do in other places. about 40% of shooters ever see time for that shooting
https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/...e-rate-even-worse-when-victims-are-blackthey have a black mayor , they have a black police chief they have a mostly black and Latino city council. If they were going to make a change for the betterment of the city well you would think they would have done that.
unfortunately it has been going on so long that parts and people of the city are just disposable
during active combat in Afghanistan it was safer to be Afghanistan than parts of Chicago
so you can see what the down hill slide looks like when it comes to your town.
first the police chief will have been asking for a 10-20% increase in patrols and getting told no.
often city council will sight budgetary concerns and fund 1% or less increase
often after a couple year of this the Chief , he or she realize nothing is going to change and they don't care to go down with the ship and leave.
with no new patrols , no new officers , they will be stuck with anyone who could not find someplace better to go , cops who are just trying to make retirement they are almost there , have issues and have been written up several times for disciplinary action. possibly even some just out right dirty cops.
Moral is very low , there is no incentive to do their job.
ahh the list starts the list may have started before or after moral was incredibly low but it sure doesn't help.
the list of things that are no longer a reason for an officer to be called to a location
I was talking with a dispatcher who was observing at the Dane county 911 center , while they were observing big city operations a dispatcher walked over to the supervisor and asked , this month in the city of Madison, is it both license plates that must be stolen or is one enough to dispatch an officer? out comes a 4 inch binder of all the things that are no longer a reason to dispatch an officer Oh and they can change on a monthly basis.
so if a crime happens on one side of the street and it is Town of Madison it may be a reason to dispatch but if it happens on the other side of the street , no need to send an officer. if they would like to file a report they can drive to the central police station , oh wait they are also too short staffed , you can e-file on the city website.
In Chicago it was if your theft didn't exceed a dollar amount a friend told me it was 10K before he left Chicago in the 90s he had a restaurant it was robbed , it was not more than 10K so he had to go to the station to report it after calling police
the fastest way to lower crime numbers is to not collect them or properly report them if you do.
Milwaukee was caught in the miss reporting a few years back , now the trend is just don't collect any more than you absolutely must.
the San Francisco fix to shop lifting although many cities have employed it in some way store owners want something done , shop lifting is a huge issue. city council answer , you can't report shoplifting if the goods taken are less than $1000.00 combined. well I don't know about you but I have a hard time getting 500 dollars in a grocery cart I have done it in 2 carts I have even done $800 in 3 carts. I point this out to give you an idea of the sheer volume of theft that would take and it isn't 1000 a day it is a 1000 per trip per criminal. WOW shop lifting hit new lows , Or did it , not if you ask the store owners they just can't report it any more. some fix that is but it looks good on paper or the paper they want to show.
well that isn't a conclusive list by any means but some things to watch for
