The Sun-Times notes 77 people have been killed in Chicago thus far in 2022.
Breitbart News pointed out 2021 was the deadliest year in Chicago in a quarter of century, with nearly 800 homicides in the city.
The Hill observed Chicago police confirmed the city witnessed 797 homicides during the course of 2021.
Seven Shot, Three Fatally Monday in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
Seven people were shot, three fatally, on Monday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports two of the fatalities were 16-year-olds.
The first of the 16-year-olds was shot after “leaving a downtown Red Line station at Grand Avenue in downtown Chicago.” The gunman fired multiple rounds and the boy was dead when first responders arrived about 2 a.m.
The second of the deceased 16-year-olds was shot numerous times “around 5:30 a.m. in the 9400 block of South Throop Street.” He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead around 3 p.m.
FOX32 noted Monday’s other fatality was discovered “in the 5500 block of West Jackson Boulevard” Monday night. A man “between 25 and 25 years old” was found shot on the sidewalk and pronounced dead.
The Chicago Tribune reported 86 homicides in the city of Chicago January 1, 2022, through February 25, 2022, which is four more homicides than were committed during the same time frame in 2021.
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Vast Majority of DC Homicide Suspects Were Known to Law Enforcement, Report Finds
An overwhelming majority of all homicide suspects and victims in Washington, D.C., had previous encounters with law enforcement, according to a new report.
The report from the left-leaning National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) found that in 2019 and 2020, "approximately 86 percent of homicide victims and suspects were known to the criminal justice system prior to the incident." Nearly half, roughly 46 percent, of victims and suspects were previously incarcerated.
NICJR's report, which was released earlier this month in consultation with the D.C. government, provides new evidence to critics of big-city Democratic prosecutors who have implemented dramatic reforms, such as eliminating cash bail and not charging offenders for minor offenses.
"In Washington, D.C., most gun violence is tightly concentrated on a small number of very high risk young Black male adults that share a common set of risk factors, including: involvement in street crews/groups; significant criminal justice history including prior or active community supervision; often prior victimization; and a connection to a recent shooting (within the past 12 months)," the report reads.
The report also found that "at least 23.3 percent of all homicide victims and suspects were under active supervision," meaning some form of probation or other monitoring program. At least 76 percent of all homicide suspects had "active or prior supervision."
In total, Washington, D.C., saw 341 murders from Jan. 2019 to December 2020. Eighty-five percent of those homicides were with a firearm.
Nearly all of the victims and perpetrators of homicide in the city, about 96 percent according to the report, were black. Black people make up less than half, 46 percent, of Washington, D.C., residents.
"While the majority of people involved in shootings, as victim or suspect, are members or associates of street groups/gangs, the motive for the shooting may not be a traditional gang war," the report reads. "Often shootings are precipitated by a petty conflict over a young woman, a simple argument, or the now ubiquitous social media slight."
BLACKS MAKE UP ONLY 8% OF S.F.
POPULATION BUT PERPETRATE 40% OF THE
CRIMES. THESE STATS ARE PRE COVID'S
CARJACKING AND STORE LOOTING WHICH IS
OVERWHELMINGLY PERPETRATED BY BLACKS,
AS IT IS ACROSS AMERICA
Maher, Brooke Jenkins: San Francisco’s Lax Prosecution Is a White Guy ‘Throwing an Anchor’ to Black, Latino People
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher and former San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins argued that San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s lax prosecution policies are an example of how people “wind up actually throwing an anchor to the people they think they’re helping.” Because Black and Latino people suffer the most from gang violence on the streets.
Jenkins said Boudin “simply wants to find ways not to prosecute and he touts it as being something that helps Black and Latino communities while ignoring that Black and Latino people suffer the most, oftentimes, from street violence.”
Maher then asked, “Is this guy white?”
Jenkins responded, “Of course, yes.”
Maher then said, “Tell me why you say, ‘Of course,’ because it sounds like we probably agree on this, which is these white people think — they’re, I always say, more offended than the victim. I think their heart is in the right place and they wind up actually throwing an anchor to the people they think they’re helping. Because as you say, who’s hurt by gang violence?”
Jenkins responded, “Right. It’s Black and Latino people. My husband’s 18-year-old cousin, a young Black man, was gunned down in San Francisco in 2020. He was walking down the street, innocent young guy, killed in the midst of a gang feud going on in San Francisco. And…it’s his family that has to suffer and watch the D.A. there refuse to prosecute his murderers to the fullest extent.”
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LET'S GET REAL!
BLACKS ARE ONLY VICTIMS OF BLACKS AND SO ARE THE REST OF US! THE DOCUMENTED CRIME STATS ON BLACKS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. BLACK LIVES MATER? WHO MURDERS MORE BLACKS THAN BLACKS?
AMERICA'S GHETTO BLACKS ARE THE MOST RACIST, ANTI-SEMTIC, ANTI-ASIAN, HOMOPHOBIC, ABORTED, AND IGNORANT SUBCULTURE IN THE COUNTRY.
BLM, AL SHARPTON AND JESSE JACKSON ARE NOTHING BUT CORPORATE BRIBES SUCKING CONMEN AND HOAXERS!
HOW MANY BLACKS HAVE MURDERED HOW MANY BLACKS THIS PAST WEEKEND IN CHICAGO?
‘He was Comfortable Doing It’: Samuel L. Jackson Slams Joe Rogan’s Use of the N-Word and Explains Why Leo DiCaprio Got a Pass In ‘D’Jango Unchained’
https://news.yahoo.com/comfortable-doing-samuel-l-jackson-153500804.html
Samuel L. Jackson Slams Joe Rogan over N-Word But Defends Pal Quentin Tarantino
Samuel L. Jackson has slammed Joe Rogan over the podcaster’s past use of the n-word, claiming Rogan’s apology was insincere. At the same time, Jackson has defended frequent collaborator Quentin Tarantino, whose movies including Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained feature abundant and ostentatious use of the word.
In an interview with Britain’s Sunday Times, the actor lashed out at Rogan, saying it doesn’t matter that the podcaster used the n-word in context and not as a slur.
“He is saying nobody understood the context when he said it,” Jackson told the Times, which reported him rolling his eyes over Rogan. “But he shouldn’t have said it. It’s not the context, dude — it’s that he was comfortable doing it. Say that you’re sorry because you want to keep your money, but you were having fun and you say you did it because it was entertaining.”
“A story is context — but just to elicit a laugh? That’s wrong,” he added.
Rogan apologized for his past use of the n-word on his podcast after the left-wing cancel mob resurrected the old episodes in its continuing effort to censor and de-platform him. As a result, Spotify has deleted dozens of old episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” while pledging $100 million to boost diversity on the platform.
In the same interview, Jackson defended Tarantino, who has largely escaped criticism for the flagrant use of the n-word in his movies.
“Every time someone wants an example of overuse of the n-word, they go to Quentin — it’s unfair,” he told the newspaper. “He’s just telling the story and the characters do talk like that. When Steve McQueen does it, it’s art. He’s an artiste. Quentin’s just a popcorn film-maker.”
***LANGUAGE WARNING***
Jackson, who is set to receive an honorary Oscar this year, said Leonardo DiCaprio expressed reservations about using the n-word so many times in Django Unchained, in which he plays a sadistic plantation owner in the Antebellum South.
“Me and Quentin said that you have to,” Jackson recalled.
The n-word is uttered prominently in other Tarantino movies, including Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, which are set in the present day.
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Black Lives Matter's True Colors
The malicious, self-serving criminal agendas of a racial hoax.
David Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the bestselling author of I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax is Killing America.
It's been almost two years since the summer of violent Black Lives Matter insurrections and cop-hating crusades. The actions of that summer inflicted $2 billion in property damage in 220 American cities, killed scores of people, and spiked record homicide rates in a dozen municipalities run by Democrat politicians and supporters. This unprecedented eruption of hatred and violence was fueled by a racial hoax claiming that there was an "open season" on black lives, despite the fact that there is no evidence to support this claim, whether statistical or circumstantial.
Apart from affirmative action, which was given a pass by the Supreme Court, and despite the false claims of the president, there is no systemic racism in America today. If police departments, for example, were systemically racist, there would be massive lawsuits invoking the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which specifically outlaws institutional and systemic racism. There are no such massive lawsuits because there is no systemic racism in police departments. Although the accusation of systemic racism is the main currency of the Black Lives Matter hate campaign — and, shamefully, of the rhetoric emanating from the White House itself — there is no factual basis for this slander. None.
The time that has elapsed since the launch of the left's racial witch hunt has provided ample opportunity to expose the malicious, self-serving criminal agendas of the Black Lives Matter movement. These have nothing to do with the welfare of black communities, which have not received a penny of the tens of millions of dollars raised in their name. Contributions to Black Lives Matter have gone to line the pockets and enhance the real estate portfolios of its leaders. Meanwhile, the chief victims of the homicides unleashed by their actions have been poor black inner-city communities — with no show of concern by Black Lives Matter and its allies.
A week ago, a Black Lives Matter activist named Quintez Brown attempted to assassinate a Jewish mayoral candidate in Louisville. Without any hesitation, Black Lives Matter provided a $100,000 bond to get him released within two days of his arrest. It was not the first instance where Black Lives Matter showed its solidarity with political and racial assassins, or its support for domestic terrorism. When a black assassin murdered five cops in Dallas, and the assassin was blown up by a police robot, Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors portrayed the murderer as a black-skinned martyr because he was "the first individual ever to be blown up by local law enforcement." She ignored the fact that the assassin was a homicidal maniac, and the order to blow him up was made by the Dallas police chief, who was black.
As an emblem of the Biden Democrats' support for the anti-white, anti-law racists of the left, Biden recently appointed political consultant Minyan Moore to advise him on his selection of a black woman to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer. Minyan Moore is a director of the Black Lives Matter Global Foundation. Worse, she is a close friend and promoter of Kimberle Crenshaw, the creator of Critical Race Theory, which indicts America's constitutional order as "white supremacist" from its inception and concludes that no American laws or institutions should be respected because of those origins.
To have Moore as the presidential adviser on a Supreme Court nomination epitomizes the anti-American, anti-democratic agendas of Black Lives Matter's "trained Marxists." In addition, Moore has been a political consultant to the Clintons, Kamala Harris, and the race-hustler Jesse Jackson — an indication of how the Democrat Party has reverted to its roots as the party of slavery, racism and segregation.
Critical Thinking Must Replace Critical Race Theory
CRT promotes conflict instigation instead of conflict resolution.
It is becoming all-too apparent that proponents of Critical Race Theory seek the demise of our great Republic. They are using the age-old “divide and conquer” strategy to turn Americans against one another, seeking to instigate conflict and violence to undermine our peaceful society.
There are no winners with this strategy in place -- only victims. (I addressed this threat in an earlier article, Radical Democrats Have Become 'Adversaries of Freedom.')
Racism is defined as:
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized -- the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
Racism is racism, and no matter who bears the brunt of it, is wrong-headed and dangerous. It is inherently and supremely unfair and leads all people, of all races, down a dangerous path of resentment and hostility that likely will ultimately result in violence. Critical Race Theory, or CRT, actually promotes racism.
The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States begins with this eloquent paragraph:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The point is that since its founding the United States has labored mightily to achieve progress in many areas to erase barriers to success and happiness for all Americans. Hard-fought Civil Rights Laws were enacted in the quest of forming that “more perfect union.”
American children should be taught history that honestly addresses all aspects of the history of our nation -- including the struggles to overcome injustice, that should serve to encourage students to celebrate how far we have come and how positive change is always possible. Those lessons would be inspirational and provide an optimistic viewpoint.
Children should also be taught productive ways to achieve conflict resolution instead of the conflict instigation that is the clear goal of CRT.
Anti-American Critical Race Theory seeks to erase these achievements and turn Americans against one another. Its proponents, for example, push for “social justice” through the “Defund the Police" movement and, in the name of “criminal justice reform,” promote “cashless bail” that has resulted in the release of violent criminals who simply attack, injure and kill more victims.
As an INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Special Agent I frequently testified at bail hearings in state court as well as in federal court. In some instances the federal prosecutors called on me to make the bail presentation because of my familiarity with the defendant who was being charged in criminal proceedings. The issue of bail should rest on only two issues: whether or not the defendant is likely to show up in court in the future or abscond and become a fugitive; and if the defendant poses a threat to public safety.
Illegal aliens who have no community ties, and who have used multiple false identities should be considered “flight risk.” You could add to this the fact that the alien in question would be facing deportation (removal from the United States) after completion of the imposed prison sentence, if found guilty of his or her criminal charges.
The issue of danger to public safety does not require a crystal ball. Any individual who has prior arrests for violent crimes and/or crimes involving weapons demonstrates the risk they pose to the safety of the community.
We measure the civility of a society by how it looks out for the most vulnerable members of that society. Turning sociopathic criminals loose, resulting in violent attacks on innocent victims, including children, flies in the face of that notion of protecting the most vulnerable.
When I was growing up my parents always told me to seek to find common ground with others, particularly if I had an argument with a classmate or friend. They suggested that I turn the situation around and ask myself how I would feel if whatever it was I said or did that upset the other person was done to me.
That ability to metaphorically stand in my friends’ shoes has served me well throughout my life. Although my parents died when I was in college, I like to say that I am still standing on their shoulders, each and every day.
Let us for a moment ask how turning criminals loose on society constitutes any sort of justice. Let us also pose a question I have never heard asked -- what sort of social justice is it that does not address a fundamental question: what is our society doing to prevent children from growing up to become societal scavengers and career criminals?
When teenagers are asked about their dreams for their future many will talk about jobs or professions that they hope to have when they perhaps graduate from college. They may talk about owning a home or having kids of their own.
But children who get sucked into gangs or depend on criminal activities don’t have long-term goals -- their concerns about the future likely do not extend beyond the next day or two.
Many of these children are functionally illiterate. Many come from broken homes and may have become addicted to illegal drugs and by the time they are in their teens they are well on their way to becoming career criminals. Not exactly a “career” anyone should aspire to.
They are likely to blame others for the situation in which they find themselves, fueled by the victimization narrative pedaled as Critical Race Theory. This does not empower anyone to strive for success.
Further exacerbating this nightmare are our open borders that, thanks to President Biden, are flooding huge numbers of transnational gang members into our country who have been dispersed across our country, posing a threat to ethnic immigrant communities and the children, in particular, who live in those communities.
Our open borders have also enabled record quantities of deadly narcotics to flood into our communities causing unprecedented overdose fatalities and increasing crimes associated with the drug trade.
Meanwhile the proceeds from the drug trade fill the coffers of transnational gangs. Even terrorist organizations have come to work with drug- and alien smugglers to fund terrorism and move sleeper agents into the United States (consider my article, "Iran Threatens U.S. And Its Allies With “Drugs, Refugees, Bombs And Assassination”).
The point is that those who profess to seek “Social Justice” by releasing violent criminals never seem to want to talk about creating an environment that is less likely to result in youngsters becoming criminals, but that instead produces children who can dream of success and then have a real likelihood of attaining that success.
Social Justice in general, and Critical Race Theory in particular, are not about justice or even about helping any racial group, but about the destruction of our society through record levels of violence and carnage.
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