"$2 billion can come to Chicago to make where we live safe and secure,” Jackson said.

[TwoForFlinching]

Not his concepts, but ...

penalties don't work, parenting can't be improved - anyone can become one, obviously gun violence can't be prevented, policing is an after the crime event in most cases.

Agreed. Without policing, there can be no penalties. Much like NOLA, Chicago gun crime is so "everyday" that lawyers run the system. Nobody is held accountable for their actions. Instead, it seems criminals are victimized, their living conditions and upbringing being blamed... Unless of course they want to make a point with someone. They should start cleaning up that city with penalties to the fullest extent of the law. Hold criminals to their crimes

 

[MCVetSteve]

Private resources is the answer to Chicago's violence problem not federal money, namely privately owned firearms being carried by the citizens of Chicago.

 

[Commander Keen]

I'm surprised that parenting, culture, and morals (or an apparent lack of all three) were mentioned at all.

 

[Wheel Gun]

The problem is Chicago's citizens and the culture they've embraced. I wish them well, but don't wish to fund the situation they've created.

 

[MCVetSteve]

The problem is Chicago's citizens and the culture they've embraced. I wish them well, but don't wish to fund the situation they've created.

Agreed. If you don't wanna die, move. Even if that means simply relocating outside city limits and keeping the same job.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

It's a national issue. Everybody wants the Gov to do something. Nobody seems to remember Kennedy's words, Ghandi's words, Churchill, MLK, Reagan, ect... It's an American culture of "The government has to do something about this." A culture in which the extreme majority of people live in some way or another on both sides of the isle.

 

[Okiedog]

I'm sure old Jesse and Emanuel would be more than happy to oversee that 2 bil.

 

[Wheel Gun]

The problem is, we'll have no choice if the White House wants that money spent there. We can complain and rant all we want, but I don't think Washington cares what we think. They're spending our money like it's water running through their fingers.

 

[Glocktogo]

If you want to throw $2B at the Chicago problem, the last place you'd want to spend it is on furthering the Chicago machine. The fraud would be epic in scale. No, if you Really want to fix the problem, you spend that money on a surge of federal agents into the South Side, ship in federal judges from other jurisdictions that aren't afraid to lock people up, expedite their prosecutions and then ship them off to federal prisons far away from Chicago. Make it known that if you use a gun in the commission of a crime, you're done. Max sentences served at an 85% minimum.

You won't eliminate crime in Chicago, but you'll drop the shooting rate like a hot rock.

 

[Graeth]

Wall it up, fill it in, begin again.