Pulitzer prize winning series on the high percentage of unsolved murders in Chicago

[mucifer]

It's very sad. It explains why there are so many unsolved murders in certain neighborhoods in the city. The Suntimes reporters Frank Main, Mark Konkol and photographer John J. Kim did a great job with this.

http://www.suntimes.com/pulitzer The first few sentences in the series:


This is the story of why they won’t stop shooting in Chicago.

It’s told by the wounded, the accused and the officers who were on the street during a weekend in April 2008 when 40 people were shot, seven fatally.

Two years later, the grim reality is this: Nearly all of the shooters from that weekend have escaped charges.

[Stuart G]

1. I read part of this one..had to stop..

Society is falling apart in Chicago..

They know who shooter is, but most, most of the victims are afarid to testify, cause ..

the shooter almost always gets out, and often shoots the victim who testifies...
read this for yourself...anyone else get this from reading this?

[AngryAmish]

6. Only in certain parts of the Chicago is the city failing

A truth about Chicago is that it is a city of neighborhoods. Another truth is that Chicago is incredibly racist. So in most of the city the crime rate is really low. Where I live there is a neighborhood newsletter published monthly that shows the crimes in my neighborhood - usually has a domestic or two, a car broken into and a theft by deception. The only violent crime is the domestic assaults, which while serious are not the sort of thing that prevents one from walking the streets at night.

On the other hand the murder rates in parts of the West and South sides are incredible. The no snitching mantra rules.

And the way the city is set up lets this sort of thing go on. The Machine is set up in such a way that the aldermen have local power to a great extent. Nothing gets built without their say-so. They hold sway over police promotions, garbage pick-up, hiring and firing. There is no merit hiring in Chicago.

But one does not get to comment about what goes on outside your neighborhood. So the Machine has adopted a "let them soil their own nest" attitudes toward lower class blacks and hispanics. It does not effect the powers that be, so nobody cares.

[Blue_Tires]

2. Did I REALLY just read that a dying victim refused to give detail on his attackers?

I'm beginning to wonder why the city even bothers to police the place...

[mucifer]

3. I'm a pediatric hospice nurse who sees patients in some of these neighborhoods

Human beings live there. People who love and care for one another. There need to be more social programs for youth to prevent entering gangs. I don't know what the answers are. But, there have to be answers.

[Scuba]

4. Thank you for reminding all that just because gang bangers are prevalent....

...in some neighborhoods doesn't mean decent, well meaning People - and children - don't live there too.

The right would have us write off these neighborhoods and the People in them.


And thanks for your work.

[Blue_Tires]

5. My answer is to end the drug war....

I don't see how things could be any worse off without it...

[AngryAmish]

7. While the drug war should be ended, there are relatively few killings over drugs

Most murder is young men killing other young men. They kill each other over the stupid things young men have always fought over: an insult, seexual matters and the ilk.

[Blue_Tires]

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