Reasons Chicago is a murder capitol...and it isn't guns....

[2aguy]

here you go......

MURDER CITY USA: Three Big Reasons Why Chicago Is So Unsafe | GunsSaveLife.com

Lacking impulse control

So not only are criminals are more brazen in Chicago, they lack impulse control as well. Just this week, Chicago cops went to stop a man that looked as though he might have been adjusting a gun stuffed in his pants as he strutted down the street. He ran and a chase commenced.

Kentrell Pledger, aged old enough to know better, reportedly shot at the officers in the course of the foot pursuit. The cops returned fire, but missed. Our brave hoodlum then cowered under a porch where the boys in blue found him in short order. Pledger’s shirt just happened to be found wrapped around a .40 caliber GLOCK tucked away under said porch. He thanked cops for not shooting him at the scene.

Later in court, though, he became Mr. Tough Guy again. As Ron White famously joked, he might have had the right to remain silent, but lacked the impulse control to do so. DNA Info had the story: Man Charged With Shooting At Cop Says In Court: I Should Have ‘Smoked’ Him

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Police “reform”

Part of the issue is the Ferguson effect on policing. But it’s worse in Illinois.

Illinois legislators passed a bill last year that requires police officers to document any Terry stops (brief investigative stops by police) starting January 1, 2016. The bill, touted as police “reform”, does many thingsincluding mandating time-intensive paperwork for these stops. Suspects must get a “receipt” indicating the officer’s name, and the time, place and reason for the stop. The data is then made available to the public, including anti-police attorneys and “social justice” groups who can and will use it against individual officers and the department as a whole in their pursuit of monetary awards.

What’s the police officers’ response to all this? They practice “fetal position” police work, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel described it, reducing the risk to their careers and pensions from lawyers representing America’s criminal class. Cops themselves say that proactive policing is dead in Chicago.

Prosecutions. Or lack thereof.

Illinois law lacks some of the provisions that states like Florida have used when it comes to the use of guns in violent crime.

Florida had, until February of this year, a powerful 10-20-Life law that couldn’t be plea-bargained away. The law’s provisions helped Florida reach the lowest level of firearm violent crime in that state’s history. It will be interesting to track Florida’s firearm violent crime rate now that the 10-20-Life mandatory sentencing enhancement law was repealed earlier this year.

How did Florida’s law work? If you committed a violent crime with a gun in Florida, you got an extra ten years in prison on top of the sentence for the underlying crime. There was no parole, probation, no plea-bargains.

Discharge a gun in Florida in the commission of a violent crime? Add 20(!) years to the sentence. In other words, popping off five rounds at people on a busy street in Florida prior to the law’s repeal and you would be gone for at least twenty years plus time for the crime. Contrast that with Chicago, where prosecutors charged that crime as a misdemeanor. And the female suspect was released on her own recognizance after her arrest.

The culprit in Chicago was apprehended thanks to the help of lots of witnesses cooperating with police. A YouTube video captured her firing the shots, while intoxicated, after leaving a bar (while carrying an illegally possessed gun).

 

[gipper]

Sadly truth is never something the Left gives a shit about. Their narrative is unchanged by the facts.

In Detroit, over 50% of the residents are functionally illiterate. I suspect the same is true is some areas of Chicago. When one is ignorant, one generally can't control themselves and will do dumb things.

 

[waltky]

Don't run from the cops or ya liable to get shot - it's yer own fault...

Report: Third of Chicago Police Shootings Started With Foot Pursuits
September 7, 2016 - An analysis of every Chicago police shooting from 2010 through 2015 found that foot chases played a role in more than a third of the 235 cases that ended with someone wounded or killed.

Levail Smith had just cracked open a can of beer outside a Rogers Park laundromat on the Fourth of July two years ago when a Chicago police tactical officer pulled over his unmarked car and approached him. Smith, a 45-year-old ex-Marine with a history of mental problems, walked away briskly, ignoring the officer's order to stop. In seconds, the chase was on. After a short foot pursuit, officers cornered Smith in the backyard of an apartment building, where witnesses said he shouted, "I have a gun!" Three officers opened fire, wounding Smith in the chest, leg and abdomen. The officers appeared stunned upon discovering he was actually unarmed, one witness told investigators.

Smith was one of five people shot by police -- two fatally -- over that holiday weekend in 2014, and all involved foot chases. An unprecedented analysis by the Chicago Tribune of every police shooting from 2010 through 2015, in fact, found that foot chases played a role in more than a third of the 235 cases that ended with someone wounded or killed. About half of the pursuits began routinely -- as police attempted to stop or question people for curfew violations, public drinking, thefts, disturbance calls or other minor offenses, the Tribune found. According to the analysis, nearly a quarter of those killed by police during foot chases were struck only in the back, a factor often cited later in civil rights lawsuits questioning the threat actually posed to officers.

Chicago police officers are seen at the corner of 73rd Street and South Merrill Avenue on July 28 following a foot pursuit that resulted in the fatal shooting of Paul O'Neal.​

Those same factors played out in the Police Department's most recent controversial fatal shooting -- of Paul O'Neal, an unarmed black teen who was wounded in the back in late July after bailing out of a stolen car on the South Side and leading officers on a short foot chase. Experts say changes in how and when officers are allowed to chase suspects on foot will likely be an outcome of the ongoing probe by the U.S. Justice Department of the Chicago Police Department. At least a dozen previous Justice Department probes of police departments over the past two decades have called for establishing specific guidelines on foot chases, and other cities have implemented policies on their own following controversial police shootings involving foot pursuits.

Federal investigators will be particularly interested in how police shootings have disproportionately affected minorities, according to the experts. While African-Americans made up 80 percent of all those shot by police in the six-year span examined by the Tribune, an even higher number of those shot during foot chases -- 94 percent -- were black, the Tribune found.

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Law Teaches Drivers What To Do If Stopped
September 7, 2016 - The measure comes amid heightened tensions across the nation over how traffic stops can go terribly wrong -- and in the worst cases turn deadly.

A new Illinois law aims to help drivers answer the timely question of what to do if stopped by police. The measure comes amid heightened tension in Chicago and across the nation over how traffic stops can go terribly wrong -- and in the worst cases turn deadly. Targeting the newest and youngest drivers, the law mandates that all driver's education classes include a section on what to do during a traffic stop. State Sen. Julie Morrison, D-Deerfield, was a co-sponsor of the bill that sailed through the Illinois legislature and was signed into law last month by Gov. Bruce Rauner. She said it is more about common sense than innovation. "Being pulled over by an officer is really stressful," she said. "I think it's really important, especially in this time that we're in, that kids and new drivers learn what is expected when they are stopped by an officer, how to respond correctly, to be respectful, and hopefully that will make the encounter as least problematic as possible. I'm hoping it protects both the officer and the driver from things escalating."

The lesson may be familiar to some of the 109,000 students statewide who are currently enrolled in a driver's education program at a public high school, according to the Illinois secretary of state's office. A section titled "Being Pulled Over by Law Enforcement" is part of the Illinois Rules of the Road handbook, which is published by the office. Driver's education teachers in public schools are required to teach the Rules of the Road, though Morrison and others found that it wasn't always happening. Jim Archambeau, a driver's education teacher in Chicago Public Schools, said he's taught the lesson in his classes for years, each time accompanied by a visit from a police officer. He said he hopes the law will bring uniformity to what he deems an important lesson for novice drivers. "The police officers tell the students what they like to see: 'Hands on the wheel, window down, no sudden movements,' " he said. "When they ask for your license and registration, they like that you tell them where you're going to get it from: 'It's in my pocket. It's in my glove box. It's above my visor.' " Archambeau, who serves as president-elect of the Illinois High School and College Driver Education Association, said a video that addresses the topic also would be helpful in the classroom.

A new law in Illinois comes amid heightened tensions across the nation over how traffic stops can go terribly wrong -- and in the worst cases turn deadly.​

The new law goes a step further by expanding the requirement to private driving schools, said Dave Druker, spokesman for the Secretary of State Jesse White's office, which regulates the private driving schools. More than 40,000 people are enrolled in private driver's education, Druker said. White's office is tasked with updating the curriculum that tackles how drivers should act during a traffic stop. Those guidelines will then be worked into an updated Rules of the Road handbook, which will be published in 2017, when the law is due to go into effect, Druker said. The secretary of state's office will seek input from the Illinois State Police, he added. "I think this can be a very positive thing," Druker said. "It's something Secretary White believes in very strongly." Despite its timing, the law wasn't introduced in response to police shootings stemming from escalating traffic stops, said state Rep. Frances Ann Hurley, D-Chicago, who filed the bill in February. "It was just to teach everybody the same thing," Hurley said. "It's an education bill. We want everybody to know what they're supposed to do when they get pulled over by police. If it helps somewhere down the line, that's wonderful."

David Shapiro, an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University, said he was appalled that the new law doesn't include the rights of the new drivers, many of whom are minors. The responsibility is now on parents to educate themselves on those rights and talk to their children about them, he said. "I think it's a frightening bill for anyone who has kids who drive a car because it doesn't say anything about the kids' constitutional rights during a traffic stop," Shapiro said. "Kids are the most vulnerable to getting pulled into the criminal justice system by overzealous police officers, and traffic stops are one of the main points of contact for pulling people in."

New Illinois Law Teaches Drivers What To Do If Stopped by Police