Call to end chicago's violence

[novasteve]

Chicago marchers urge Obama to come home to address gun violence

Can I take a wild guess that if national libs addressed this they would have to either admit gun control doesn't work, or blame neighboring states and use that an excuse to restrict gun rights? Because we know if they stepped up policing, that would be "Racist".

So I guess in the "mind" of liberals, it's better for people to die than be offended.

 

[tjvh]

Damn those Democrats in Chicago sure are some murdering SOB's. The truth of the matter is that if you live in a "gun free zone" you better buy some serious body armor, and stay inside after dark. Glad the Police were around to stop these killings in Chicago... Oh, wait...

 

[cutter]

I wonder why Chicago is in such bad shape? Could it be Progressive politics and their anti-business policy's drove all business out? If you make the city attractive to business by reducing tax and regulation it will attract business. All actions have consequences and now we are going to see how there Progressives work on a National level. Could Chicago be a glimpse of our future? We sure seem to be trying their style of government.

 

[slackjawed]

I heard an interview with Jesse jackson a few minutes ago who claims that the jobs left and the drugs and guns have come in.

He makes it out like these folks have no choice, if they don't have jobs they seem to have no choice but guns and drugs.

where is the personal responsibility?

Is it more racist to claim that inner city blacks are killing each other or is it more racist to claim the only two choices are jobs or guns and drugs?

Both seem equally racist to me.

 

[waltky]

How to heal traumatized kids...

What heals traumatized kids? Answers are lacking
11 Feb.`13 — Shootings and other traumatic events involving children are not rare events, but there's a startling lack of scientific evidence on the best ways to help young survivors and witnesses heal, a government-funded analysis found.

School-based counseling treatments showed the most promise, but there's no hard proof that anxiety drugs or other medication work and far more research is needed to provide solid answers, say the authors who reviewed 25 studies. Their report was sponsored by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. According to research cited in the report, about two-thirds of U.S. children and teens younger than 18 will experience at least one traumatic event, including shootings and other violence, car crashes and weather disasters. That includes survivors and witnesses of trauma. Most will not suffer any long-term psychological problems, but about 13 percent will develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress, including anxiety, behavior difficulties and other problems related to the event.

The report's conclusions don't mean that no treatment works. It's just that no one knows which treatments are best, or if certain ones work better for some children but not others. "Our findings serve as a call to action," the researchers wrote in their analysis, published online Monday by the journal Pediatrics. "This is a very important topic, just in light of recent events," said lead author Valerie Forman-Hoffman, a researcher at RTI International, a North Carolina-based nonprofit research group. She has two young children and said the results suggest that it's likely one of them will experience some kind of trauma before reaching adulthood. "As a parent I want to know what works best," the researcher said.

In this Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 file photo, students listen during an assembly on the first day of school at a temporary high school in a converted store in Joplin, Mo., nearly three months after an EF-5 tornado destroyed six schools and damaged four others along with killing 160 people and devastating a third of the city. According to research cited in a report by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, about two-thirds of U.S. children and teens younger than 18 will experience at least one traumatic event, including shootings and other violence, car crashes and weather disasters.

Besides the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, other recent tragedies involving young survivors or witnesses include the fatal shooting last month of a 15-year-old Chicago girl gunned down in front of a group of friends; Superstorm Sandy in October; and the 2011 Joplin, Mo., tornado, whose survivors include students whose high school was destroyed. Some may do fine with no treatment; others will need some sort of counseling to help them cope.

Studying which treatments are most effective is difficult because so many things affect how a child or teen will fare emotionally after a traumatic event, said Dr. Denise Dowd, an emergency physician and research director at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo., who wrote a Pediatrics editorial. One of the most important factors is how the child's parents handle the aftermath, Dowd said. "If the parent is freaking out" and has difficulty controlling emotions, kids will have a tougher time dealing with trauma. Traumatized kids need to feel like they're in a safe and stable environment, and if their parents have trouble coping, "it's going to be very difficult for the kid," she said.

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[ba1614]

Obummer spent yrs in that hole and it only got worse, how would they expect his holiness to do anything now?

 

[Big Black Dog]

All they have to do to end all the violence in Chicago is to begin shooting known gang members on sight. They should do this nationwide.

 

[Katzndogz]

obama said that Chicago was a model for the nation. He wouldn't fix what isn't broken.

 

[High_Gravity]

obama said that Chicago was a model for the nation. He wouldn't fix what isn't broken.

Did he really say that?

 

[waltky]

Suspects arrested in Hadiya Pendleton's murder...

2 charged in slaying of Chicago honor student
Feb 11,`13 -- Chicago police say the two men accused of killing a 15-year-old honor student mistook her and her friends for rival gang members who'd shot one of the men over the summer.

Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says murder charges were filed Monday against 18-year-old Michael Ward and 20-year-old Kenneth Williams. Both are accused in the Jan. 29 death of Hadiya (hy-DEE'-uh) Pendleton. She and her friends weren't affiliated with gangs but were shot at in a park not far from President Barack Obama's Chicago home. She'd recently performed during his inauguration ceremonies in Washington. McCarthy says Ward told investigators the shooting was meant as retaliation for Williams being shot in the arm in July. McCarthy says they were arrested while driving to a strip club Saturday, just hours after Pendleton's funeral.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

Two gang members were charged with murder Monday in the death of a 15-year-old honor student who was shot near the Chicago home of President Barack Obama just days after she performed during his inauguration festivities in Washington, authorities said. The two young men were described by police as "persons of interest" when they were taken into custody early Sunday, a day after first lady Michelle Obama and other dignitaries attended the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton.

This undated file family photo provided by Damon Stewart shows 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton of Chicago who was was shot Jan. 29, 2013 while she talked with friends in a park about a mile from President Barack Obama’s Chicago home. First Lady Michelle Obama will join some of Illinois’ most recognizable politicians and clergy to mourn the 15-year-old honor student whose death has drawn attention to staggering gun violence in the nation’s third-largest city.

Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, are now charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm, Chicago police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton said. She said police believe both men are gang members. Pendleton, a popular high school majorette, was with a group of friends who took cover during a rainstorm under a canopy in a park about a mile from the Obama home on the city's South Side. Police said a man hopped a fence, ran toward them and opened fire with a handgun. Pendleton was struck in the back and died later that day. Two others were injured.

Police have said none of the people in Pendleton's group were affiliated with gangs but that the gunman apparently mistook one for a member of a rival gang that had encroached on his gang's turf. The men charged Monday live nearby, Stratton said. Pendleton's death was one of more than 40 homicides in Chicago in January, a total that made it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade. But it was her background, her ties to the president's inauguration and the location of the park that thrust her death into the national headlines and put Chicago at the center of a national debate over gun control.

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[asaratis]

I heard an interview with Jesse jackson a few minutes ago who claims that the jobs left and the drugs and guns have come in.

He makes it out like these folks have no choice, if they don't have jobs they seem to have no choice but guns and drugs.

where is the personal responsibility?

Is it more racist to claim that inner city blacks are killing each other or is it more racist to claim the only two choices are jobs or guns and drugs?

Both seem equally racist to me.

Jesse's MO is to blame someone else...usually white people...for all the ails of the black communities that he visits while looking for cameras. He is a race whore. His entire life has been built around his ability to create criticism and disdain for whatever he deems the cause of black people's problems.

Chicago does not have a gun violence problem. Chicago has a violence problem and guns are the choice of the punks that have the problem. They will obtain guns from whatever source is available. You take away one source, they will find another. You take that one away, they will find another. Blaming the surrounding states for not adopting the same silly gun bans that Chicago has written is a useless and dishonest argument. No matter what gun bans are in place, criminals will obtain guns.

Chicago needs to destroy the culture that breeds violence. Lobotomize and sterilize all gang members!

 

[waltky]

Mistaken identity led to slaying...

Jail tip led cops to suspects in Hadiya Pendleton's slaying
February 13, 2013 - The break came, at last, on Saturday.

As pressure mounted over nearly two weeks, Chicago police investigating the slaying of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton followed plenty of leads that hadn't panned out. Then on Saturday, tipped by a Cook County Jail inmate, investigators picked up a recent parolee who revealed that two reputed Gangster Disciples had admitted shooting the honor student after mistaking her group for rival gang members, a law enforcement source told the Tribune in the first detailed account of how police cracked the high-profile case.

Using the threat of a return trip to prison as leverage, detectives persuaded the parolee to reveal the names of other gang members who could corroborate his account, the source said. By late Saturday night, Michael Ward and Kenneth Williams were arrested on the South Side on their way to celebrate a friend's birthday at a strip club, according to police. On Tuesday, Cook County prosecutors laid out their case against the two, providing a glimpse at the motivation and consequences of gang violence in 2013 when many shootings are the result of turf battles among factions of the same street gang.

Ward, 18, and Williams, 20, were charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in the shooting that has become a national symbol of Chicago's scourge of gun violence. Two of Hadiya's classmates were wounded. The suspects, identified by authorities as members of the SUWU gang faction, stood silently with their hands behind their backs as prosecutors detailed the charges before a packed courtroom. Both were ordered held without bail. A sheriff's department source said they were being kept apart from other inmates at Cook County Jail out of "concern for their safety."

The strongest evidence highlighted in court was an alleged video-recorded confession by Ward, whom police identified as the gunman. But investigators acknowledged that the weapon used in the slaying has not been found, and prosecutors made no mention of any significant physical evidence tying either suspect to the shooting. Because Williams quickly requested a lawyer and gave no statement to police, the evidence prosecutors cited against him appears slimmer. He has no criminal background.

In his confession, Ward said he and Williams were in the midst of a three-year battle with a rival gang faction that escalated when one of Ward's friends was killed and Williams was shot in the arm last summer, according to prosecutors. "(Ward) stated that when the rival gang killed one of his friends, he thought, 'If we keep standing for this, we are going to be some straight bitches,'" Assistant State's Attorney Jennifer Sexton said in court.

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[LordBrownTrout]

I wonder why Chicago is in such bad shape? Could it be Progressive politics and their anti-business policy's drove all business out? If you make the city attractive to business by reducing tax and regulation it will attract business. All actions have consequences and now we are going to see how there Progressives work on a National level. Could Chicago be a glimpse of our future? We sure seem to be trying their style of government.

They're a microcosm of where we're going if we keep this insane shit up.

 

[Harry Dresden]

obama said that Chicago was a model for the nation. He wouldn't fix what isn't broken.

Did he really say that?

dont you see the link?....

 

[Obamanation]

obama said that Chicago was a model for the nation. He wouldn't fix what isn't broken.

Did he really say that?

Yup, sure did!