‘Chicago is the Worst’

Manhattan: White Collar Crimes are still crimes

 

write-in votes for St Louis?

 

Kotzebue, Alaska

I feel like small town white majority areas get off the hook because they live more sparsely but rural areas can be just as dangerous especially meth regions.

 

Chicago is worse but St Louis is pretty bad

 

You accuse others of racism but you seem a tad racist yourself

 

South Chicago and the rest of Chicago are two completely different cities from a safety standpoint. I don’t know why people don’t put that in context and when you pinpoint south Chicago you are focusing on a predominantly black area. That context is important.

But yeah as someone who goes to Chicago a lot but also goes out East a lot too, I feel much safer riding the Orange line El in Chicago than I do pumping gas in Mineola Texas or parts of Arkansas where it’s a different type of institutionalized self sabotaging segment of our society. I have family in Arkansas and they have to had to fortify their property like it’s Fort Knox. The crime there is insane.

 

Amazing that an entire thread dedicated to urban crime with mostly conservatives all giddy because it's quite obvious what the intent and application here of this thread is and you are accusing the one guy who posted a non-minority majority area a racist.

Amazin.

Introspection. Utilize it.

 

Whatever you say and however you want to spin it. You need to take a long look in the mirror

 

I'd trust the safety of my hijabi mother walking the streets of Southside Chicago more than Harrison Arkansas.

 

These are issues where politics exacerbate problems and can get in the way of solutions.

Yes, things are getting bad regarding crime in Chicago and other urban centers. While it's easy to gleeful talk about the failure of "Democratic" run cities just like it is to talk about the problems of rural areas in Red states rather than pointing fingers we should look at how to address problems in both. This is where ideology can get in the way and like so much else solutions are viewed ideologically. "Defund the Police" is considered a crazy Leftist idea while support the police is viewed as implicitly racist.

If we look at the history of law enforcement especially what we've just seen in the last few years there are some very deep seated problems with LEO. Reform of PD's along with how they are used is badly needed. Trust needs to be rebuilt between LEO and the people they are supposed to protect and serve. At the same time "Defund the Police" has greatly demoralized LEO leading to resignations and essentially an uncontrolled decrease of PD's. Inconsistent rhetoric, unclear and chaotic policies by city councils and other political groups has caused fear and confusion in many cities.

If we really want to help out cities and address crime we need to get beyond political sloganeering and solutions are going to be less about ideology.

 

end the war on drugs and I have to think most of the gang-related violence and associated ills like incarceration rates etc will fade

 

That is certainly one of the things that should be considered. The War on Drugs though is one of those things that have become far more about ideology than it is what it actually doing.

 

This is the whole point right here:

"You want to know what this was really all about?" Ehrlichman asked, referring to the war on drugs.

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with mar1juana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news."

"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did," he concluded, according to Baum.

Of course Reagan's war on drugs had slightly different variations, but in the end it was the same point. Every once in awhile they just say the quiet parts out loud.

Now put this into contrast with our current dilemma where there is a "Big Lie" about election "fraud" in black communities. If this campaign lie from Nixon can have such a profound impact on drug policy and injustice in policing, just imagine what type of ripple affect the Big Lie on voting is going to have for decades.

 

Problems in law enforcement don't explain the increase in violent crime in Houston.

That's a totally separate subject.

 

The liberal responses in this thread are ridiculous

@fchowd0311

Next random ass rural town you claim to be afraid to visit, give us the crime stats in that town. How many murders have you heard about in Harrison, AR?