Amateurs. Go to the Southside of Chicago.... O-Block if you want to see ghetto **** and shootings and killings. The cops have actually built a structure around O-Block and will not let anyone on the public road unless their name is on the lease.
I hear there's a guy down there named Leroy Brown, who's the baddest man in the whole damn town. At least, that's what I've heard.
My wife and I say it all the time. We live in the future. I heard of him. Meaner than a junkyard dog?
Just today's "The More You Know"... The Junkyard Dog, born as Sylvester Ritter, played college football at Fayetteville State University. He earned a degree in Political Science. TMYK
I'll just say this. I am from Houston and have lived all over the planet at different times..... and I have never seen anything like what is happening where I live now in Chicago..... literally 85% of the homicides in the city are happening in an area like a quarter the size of Sharpstown...... and my wife flips out when I go down there. Also, the person that shoots you is more likely to be 14 - 25 years old and look like..... There are almost no middle aged men in that part of Chicago, all are dead, moved away or in prison for life..... The Chicago PD solves like 5% of the murder cases in these areas of town and they are all gang related between the Black Disciples and the Gangster Disciples, and which one you are depends on which street you live in...... and basically a bunch of teenagers drive around with stolen guns looking for people from the rival gang and shoot them, or shoot into a crowd.... luckily only about 10-15% of those shot die, but sometimes there can be 10-15 people in these areas murdered on a weekend, usually it is done by the came 20 or so people that have high body counts. The picture is someone that I met through mentoring in that part of town, his name was Dayvon and he was a Black Disciple. He was a rapper and went by King Von. Became a big deal before he was murdered. He is suspected by the Chicago PD of killing at least 8 people, including a girl. When I met him 5-6 years ago he was very nice, polite, soft spoken and generally didn't cause any problems. He wanted to be a rapper or go to college at the time or be a leader of the Black Disciples. When he talked about violence he was very matter of fact........ all these baby faced kids killing people because that is what they do. You all are fine at the Galleria.... I love Houston, been everywhere and there is no place in Houston like O-Block, Garfield Park etc.
Sounds like a hell hole. Is that all public housing? Sounds like that area of Chicago needs another Great Fire. *nose tap*
They are actually some of the area and people on the cutting edge of science. Actually recently a cure for a specific type of leukemia. The future is bright.
That’s nearly lawless living. The whole point of a government is a party having a legitimate claim to use violence (state/police) while everyone else is forbidden. Sounds like that neighborhood cannot be saved.
No, not all of it is public housing but a lot of it is. Looks can be very deceptive because the "hood" in Chicago doesn't look bad and a lot of the apartments are new and very well kept. Driving through you would not know it is bad at all, because it is so well maintained and it is also only a couple miles from one of the richest places on the planet, the Gold Coast. The police and the gangs have a sort of truce. The gangs can shoot and kill people in their own area of town and the police will not investigate it as well. However, when the violence seeps into other parts of the city, everyone flips out and suddenly the police start cracking down hard. There was a well known rapper named Duck that was killed on the Gold Coast last year during the day. He was going to shop for Gucci clothes when 4 guys shot him 20 times in front of everyone. That started all kinds of ****, and those guys were caught and they hit the bad part of town hard for awhile as payback to the gang members by the cops. Also, they tried completely gutting the bad part of Chicago like 20 years ago. It was Cabrini Green, where the movie Candy Man was filmed. They came and destroyed it, and tried moving the people into 4-5 different areas, and all it did was make it worse. Also, the inner city part of Chicago is a lot more dangerous than the crime stats show, because it is common for people here to be shot and killed on the interstate freeways. Every weekend on average 2-3 people are shot and killed on the freeway and that isn't included in official Chicago crime stats because it is owned by the federal government. In order for the people living in O-Block and places like Englewood to get around the city and get home, they need the freeways. So a block of gang members will see another gang member on the interstate and shoot them while driving and drive off. In Chicago they used to have a really powerful mafia, then the government cracked down on them, and then they were replaced selling drugs by really strong black street gangs that were lead by adult black men that were associated with the Black Panthers and were Muslim and often were well educated. The FBI came and got rid of that and literally arrested an entire generation of black men that were dealers and users. Then what happened is there were literally several generations of inner city black kids that didn't have fathers and mothers that worked long hours... so these young boys were raised by other young men and the streets. Now the average black gang member in Chicago is like 14-18 years old. There are different small gangs every block that are fighting and killing each other and find each other from social media. I cannot tell you how many of these kids are dead or in prison. Young black men killing other young black men. As a white man I feel safe walking around the worst parts of inner city Chicago. I have never had anyone ask me rudely what I am doing or why I am there. I have never been threatened or felt unease for myself. They do not mess with white men, because they assume you are a policeman, in the mob or lost and they know that the police will solve a crime against a white man. Also, I remember what Dayvon told me, he has no problem with white people, he just hates "the ops" (opposition) that are black and killed his friends and run their mouth on social media. For example, there is a McDonalds right there and I could not take Dayvon through the drive through because it is on territory controlled by the Gangster Disciples and the kids working there would shoot at him or text one of their friends to follow us and try to kill him for being in their territory.
It isn't as simple as just a neighborhood. Chicago is an extremely segregated city and has been for 150 years. In Chicago you have many generations of poor black people that were separated from the rest of the city and not treated well by the city. It got so bad that in the 1960's the city actually tried to figure out how to fix the problem. The black people that moved from the South in the 1900-1940's had lost their job, were in desperate poverty. The city decided to provide large scale public housing or to give black businesses subsidies to open black owned businesses and apartments. Over time there were the Chicago riots, government and police corruption and racism. The area was left alone and was slowly sliding into a bad state when drugs in the 1960's - 1990's became huge and the amount of powerful black gangs were viewed as a public safety hazard. So the local and federal police came in and put HUGE parts of the black male drug abusers in jail and sellers. So what happened is these kids had no fathers and raised themselves. Short of eliminating these poor people off the earth, nothing is really going to be an easy remedy. These are kids that are lawless. They will tell you going to school will result in someone shooting at them or hurting them. They all know multiple people murdered or raped, and almost all of them have huge amounts of their family members in prison for serious crimes. It is ingrained at this point. These have tried bussing even and it doesn't work. The reality is that the city largely doesn't care as long as the violence is limited to these areas. The truth is 90% of Chicago is incredibly safe, and people that live her know that and accept that and won't spend the money or effort to really fix it. FWIW Atlanta is going to end up similar. I have a lot of respect for the people that live in the South Side of Chicago, and they are almost all very nice but violence in just so common.
