{"id":65184,"date":"2016-04-10T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65184"},"modified":"2016-04-10T10:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T14:18:49","slug":"chicago-admits-that-criminals-commit-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65184","title":{"rendered":"Chicago admits that criminals commit crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hondo sends us a link from Fox News<\/a> that discusses the high rate of gun crimes in Chicago. According to the article, there have been more than 800 shootings in the city this year and, at the time the article was written, 133 Chicagoans had been murdered so far this year, compared to 77 during the same time period last year. The city blames the judicial system. For example, Lamar Harris had been arrested 43 times and convicted of felony charges seven times before he shot three of Chicago’s police officers a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

[Former Chicago Police Department Chief of Patrol Eddie] Johnson, unlike many of the city\u2019s African-American elected officials, is seeking tougher sentencing laws. Over the coming weeks, he plans to be \u201casking our legislative partners in the near future to help us\u201d pass new laws that will ensure judges throw the book at violent offenders.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s become easy for police to predict who will be on both ends of the explosion in gun violence. Some two-thirds of murder victims are already on the Police Department\u2019s \u201cstrategic subject list,\u201d [SSL] a roster of residents identified as being at risk of being a victim or an offender of gun violence. The list is kept so police can carry out lifestyle intervention efforts.<\/p>\n

In one weekend in late March, 76 percent of shooting victims were on the SSL and 95 percent had lengthy criminal histories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me that, if Chicago wants to protect victims, those predicted victims should be able to arm themselves. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are arresting people,\u201d [Chicago Police spokesman Anthony] Guglielmi told FoxNews.com. \u201cAnd we are arresting the right people. We are facing a long-term problem and that is that individuals are just not being held accountable for gun crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we need to do is remove the repeat offenders from society because they are exacerbating the problem of crime,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem is the same one that we face in the war against terror – politicians aren’t willing to make consequences harder for those who terrorize average law-abiding people. For example, one of the longest-serving persons on death row in Texas, died of old age the other day. Jack Harry Smith had been on death row since 1978 – he even criticized the system for imprisoning him for so long. The urban culture romanticizes and idolizes those who serve time in prison. That’s been going on in Chicago for decades, since prohibition. Prison life isn’t hard enough to convince repeat offenders that they don’t want to go back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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