Chicago’s Deadliest Day in 60 Years, didn’t see a blip anywhere in MSM
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Originally posted by Nuclear: The infamous St. Valentines Day massacre was only 7 mobsters killed.
Interesting...
From 1924 to 1930, the city of Chicago gained a widespread reputation for lawlessness and violence. Not coincidentally, this phenomenon coincided with the reign of chief crime lord Al “Scarface” Capone, who took over from his boss Johnny Torrio in 1925. (Torrio, who was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in 1924, had “retired” to Brooklyn.) Prohibition, ushered in by the passage of the 18th Amendment in 1920, had greatly increased the earnings of America’s gangsters through bootlegging (the illegal manufacture and sale of alcohol) and speakeasies (illicit drinking establishments), as well as gambling and prostitution. Capone’s income from these activities was estimated at some $60 million a year; his net worth in 1927 was around $100 million.
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre shocked the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence. Gang warfare ruled the streets of Chicago during the late 1920s, as chief gangster Al Capone sought to consolidate control by eliminating his rivals in the illegal trades of bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. This rash of gang violence reached its bloody climax in a garage on the city’s North Side on February 14, 1929, when seven men associated with the Irish gangster George “Bugs” Moran, one of Capone’s longtime enemies, were shot to death by several men dressed as policemen. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, as it was known, remains an unsolved crime and was never officially linked to Capone, but he was generally considered to have been responsible for the murders.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
June 10, 2020, 10:54 AM
ZSMICHAEL
Originally posted by asonie: Can you imagine what life must be like for a trauma surgeon/nurse/EMT in Chicago? I bet the daily grind is soul crushing ^^^^^^^^^^^^ A trauma residency at Cook County hospital is a Sought After position. A surgical resident at a suburban hospital is not likely to gain a similar experience. The wounds that are seen are more typical of soldiers in combat zones. It has been this way since Vietnam.
June 10, 2020, 10:56 AM
280nosler
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Originally posted by mikeyspizza: Assuming the numbers are a problem, maybe they can just stop keeping statistics.
"“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” the crime lab’s senior research director, Max Kapustin, told the newspaper. “I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”
Data from the lab does not pre-date 1961, but the next-highest single-day murder total in Chicago was on Aug. 4, 1991, when 13 Chicagoans died in homicides, according to the report."
Step 1: Take an incident that works to your favor Step 2: Broadcast it to everyone who is willing to hear it. Step 3: Make a subtle change to the narrative, once broadcast has been met. Step 4: Shut down any narrative that works agains the new narrative by using ad hominem attack Step 5: Divide people by racial, age, belief, religion, or politics Step 6: Reengineer thought narrative and have it repeated
June 10, 2020, 11:09 AM
rscalzo
The last week in Chicago that saw a record number of homicides was gangs settling old scores. Probably will see a lot more.
I found it funny when a phone call to Lightfoot from an alderman had them heatedly discussing the destruction in his ward. Not that some larger chains have said they aren't coming back or will but on a smaller scale, he was demanding to know where were the police?? Really??
So not those victims left behind after the looters and rioters destroyed their community they have no source of food or medication close by.
When they do not have retail close by, they will get free uber rides to and from retail. That's how they do it now
June 10, 2020, 12:03 PM
chellim1
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When they do not have retail close by, they will get free uber rides to and from retail.
Who pays for that?
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
June 10, 2020, 12:18 PM
stoic-one
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Originally posted by chellim1:
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When they do not have retail close by, they will get free uber rides to and from retail.
Originally posted by rscalzo: I found it funny when a phone call to Lightfoot from an alderman had them heatedly discussing the destruction in his ward. Not that some larger chains have said they aren't coming back or will but on a smaller scale, he was demanding to know where were the police?? Really??
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is waaay over her skis and out of her depth. Her ideology isn't matching the results
June 10, 2020, 02:01 PM
CPD SIG
You know what I do, and yes, I had front row seats to the shit-show. That's about as succinct as I can put it: Shit-show.
We were stretched way too thin. Lead by inept and over promoted. Ran by 2 clueless dwarfs (mayor and new supt). They (the dwarfs) disbanded a very valuable asset for protests about a month ago.
Taking a chunk of ground, only to give it up moments later to be looted, re-taking it, then giving it up again.
7 shootings and 1 homicide DOWNTOWN! IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PROTESTS! To answer the question before it's asked- No, the police didn't shoot them. It was all Black on Black crime. Oh, the fucking irony of blacks shooting and killing blacks in the middle of a fucking "blm" protest. Black LIES matter.
Any mention of that in the local or national media? I don't know, I was a little busy getting pelted with rocks and bottles, and listening to that thing that sounds like a pissed off hornet wiz by me and my officers, hoping it didn't hit any of us. A few real close calls, but no hits on us!
After downtown went up, the rest of the neighborhoods fell like Rube Goldburgs Dominos. Looting, robberies, shootings, rapes, Arron's, homicides...
Why? Why did all the shootings happen? Best answer- because they could. And nothing was there to stop them...
If you want to know what it was like, do a little research on the video game "Grand Theft Auto" this was in real life!
The weekend of the 6th & 7th, things were back to normal, with only 5 killed and 38 wounded citywide.
______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!"
“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy
June 10, 2020, 03:31 PM
armored
I live in Chicago and have been watching the riots for days on end, I had no clue of the killings and shootings, NOTHING mentioned on the local or national news.
June 10, 2020, 03:31 PM
Klusk2
After the shit-show that I was smack dab in the middle of, I've decided to pull back from from it all. I watched and listened to officers calling for help and was almost powerless to do anything. I was pelted with rocks, various tools such as a hammer and metal rake and watched my fellow officers go down in pain and suffer injuries from it all. I was at the epicenter of the chaos and I can say that leadership was absent and for the first time in my career I was ordered to basically surrender.
I am simple man and absolutely refuse to "Bend the knee". I fight for the men and women beside me. To hear the things I heard by our supposed leaders, made me cringe and it truly broke another chunk of my heart away. I watched a fellow officer be stripped of his police powers for flipping off a protester, yes, I know him personally, as he is a member of our tactical team. We worked anywhere from 12-16+ hours daily and the mind and body can only take so much before cracks start to appear.
I will refrain from a long rant, as I could go on for pages of what is wrong here in Chicago. I'm on a much needed furlough and will no doubt attempt to de-stress as much as possible.
The Working Police..... "We the willing, led by the unknown, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful."
June 10, 2020, 04:06 PM
CPD SIG
Klusk, glad to hear from you, glad you're ok!
Stay the course, retirement is around the corner.
______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!"
“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy
Originally posted by armored: I live in Chicago and have been watching the riots for days on end, I had no clue of the killings and shootings, NOTHING mentioned on the local or national news.
June 10, 2020, 04:35 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Everyone reads the Trib. No one reads the Sun Times. {just kidding}. They used to have similar demographics. Not anymore. As a kid I would also read the afternoon paper, the Chicago Daily News.
June 10, 2020, 04:35 PM
cruiser68
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Originally posted by Klusk2: After the shit-show that I was smack dab in the middle of, I've decided to pull back from from it all. I watched and listened to officers calling for help and was almost powerless to do anything. I was pelted with rocks, various tools such as a hammer and metal rake and watched my fellow officers go down in pain and suffer injuries from it all. I was at the epicenter of the chaos and I can say that leadership was absent and for the first time in my career I was ordered to basically surrender.
I am simple man and absolutely refuse to "Bend the knee". I fight for the men and women beside me. To hear the things I heard by our supposed leaders, made me cringe and it truly broke another chunk of my heart away. I watched a fellow officer be stripped of his police powers for flipping off a protester, yes, I know him personally, as he is a member of our tactical team. We worked anywhere from 12-16+ hours daily and the mind and body can only take so much before cracks start to appear.
I will refrain from a long rant, as I could go on for pages of what is wrong here in Chicago. I'm on a much needed furlough and will no doubt attempt to de-stress as much as possible.
Thank you for your service! It is a complete shit show here with zero accountability. Cannot imagine what it is like to be a PO in Chicago or anywhere for that matter. Hang in there! The VAST majority of Americans support the police.
June 10, 2020, 04:50 PM
RHINOWSO
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Originally posted by cruiser68: The VAST majority of Americans support the police.
I would say when push comes to shove, it's in the neighborhood of 90%+ support the police.
It's funny that all those motherfuckers protesting the police have 911 on speed dial as soon as one of them gets hurt / injured / etc. Same with some of those reports about the looting "Where were the police?" - duh dumbass, they were busy with a riot and didn't have the personnel to protect everyones shit.
Originally posted by armored: I live in Chicago and have been watching the riots for days on end, I had no clue of the killings and shootings, NOTHING mentioned on the local or national news.
I don't know if that article was anywhere on the homepage two days ago, but today it is buried. Took me a moment of navigating their site to find it from the homepage.
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Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
June 10, 2020, 06:57 PM
M1Garandy
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Originally posted by CPD SIG: You know what I do, and yes, I had front row seats to the shit-show. That's about as succinct as I can put it: Shit-show.
We were stretched way too thin. Lead by inept and over promoted. Ran by 2 clueless dwarfs (mayor and new supt). They (the dwarfs) disbanded a very valuable asset for protests about a month ago.
Taking a chunk of ground, only to give it up moments later to be looted, re-taking it, then giving it up again.
7 shootings and 1 homicide DOWNTOWN! IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PROTESTS! To answer the question before it's asked- No, the police didn't shoot them. It was all Black on Black crime. Oh, the fucking irony of blacks shooting and killing blacks in the middle of a fucking "blm" protest. Black LIES matter.
Any mention of that in the local or national media? I don't know, I was a little busy getting pelted with rocks and bottles, and listening to that thing that sounds like a pissed off hornet wiz by me and my officers, hoping it didn't hit any of us. A few real close calls, but no hits on us!
After downtown went up, the rest of the neighborhoods fell like Rube Goldburgs Dominos. Looting, robberies, shootings, rapes, Arron's, homicides...
Why? Why did all the shootings happen? Best answer- because they could. And nothing was there to stop them...
If you want to know what it was like, do a little research on the video game "Grand Theft Auto" this was in real life!
The weekend of the 6th & 7th, things were back to normal, with only 5 killed and 38 wounded citywide.
There was nothing on any of the local MSM while it was happening (at least Saturday night) which was unbelievable to me at the time.
Because all the major local news basically ignored what was happening, I listened to the HeyJackass live CPD scanner feed that first Saturday night until it went down, and then picked up Citywide 6 until about 3AM. What I heard happening was unbelievable.
I ended up listening to CPD radio traffic all Sunday and Monday and Tuesday at work.
Your posts and others I've seen confirms that things were as bad as they sounded.
June 10, 2020, 07:18 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Man charged with attacking Chicago officer’s family dog in Mount Greenwood
CHICAGO – A man was arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly attacking a Chicago police officer’s family dog.
Terese Arroyo has called Mount Greenwood home for years and she never felt unsafe until Tuesday morning.
Arroyo, the wife of a Chicago officer, was on her daily walk with 9-year-old boxer Rerun when she noticed something wrong.
She noticed a man, later identified as Junior Lacy, 34, walking at her and making noises toward her dog.
It didn’t just stop with noises. She believes Lacy noticed the police collar on the boxer.
“I was like, ‘ok this is real, he is not going to let me by him. He kept using profanity,” Arroyo said. “‘F this, F the police, I’ll kill all of them.'”
Arroyo said Lacy then picked up Rerun by the leash with the choke collar digging into her throat.
“I don’t even know if she was able to breathe or catch her breath at all, he continued to yell profanities about the police,” Arroyo said.
Finally, someone came out of a nearby shop and yelled at Lacy and he took off. Arroyo then told her husband what happened, who got on the radio. Lacy was taken into custody and charged with misdemeanor assault and cruelty to animals.
