What's up with the footprints? They don't look like that.
Wow, they got a third grader to draw that and write all those names-like all twenty of them. How about we write the names of black Americans killed by other black Americans. I am thinking that we will need about a mile of roadway for that one.
See, I can tell you the scenarios for each of those names, but can anyone aside from friends and family of the deceased, name anyone of the 411 murders thus far in Chicago. Here is a fluff piece that lauds a 23% drop in murders in chi town this year.
“A drop in homicides in Chicago alone accounted for a majority of the national decline in killings in 2017, recently released FBI statistics show.
The FBI reported a total of 17,284 murders across the U.S. in 2017, down from 17,413 total murders reported in 2016. That’s a net decrease of 199 murders across the country from 2016 to 2017. Fifty-six percent of that decrease can be attributed to Chicago specifically, which saw 112 fewer murders in 2017 compared to 2016.
https://news.suntimes.com/news/chicago-murder-rate-national-statistics-fbi-report/
What that article did not say was how many murders had happened this year. In fact, it took some searching and different wording to actually get a number.
I hate to always use Chicago as the go to city to talk about crime, but it is the city that typically has the most articles about it, the most theories as to why people can’t seem to stop killing each other, and has a protest every time a police officer shoots a black person, complete with black lives matter at the forefront to lambast the police to “stop murdering us” as the signs often say. But when put to task about the crazy high numbers in the city every year with 80% of the offenders being black and 95% of those victims are killed by other blacks.
Here is a decent article on the violence that does not blame police, and focuses on the negative effects of living in a war zone.
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_103541.shtml
Another decent article.
https://triblive.com/opinion/guestc...cent-victims-war-attacks-chicago-cities-crime
Also, when doing the search, I was inundated by article after article of police failure to solve these crimes. One 1 out of 6 murders are solved, while most lead to other murders. This is used as evidence that “black lives don’t matter to the police” yet, who is the group that actually devalues the lives of black Americans? Is it the police that kill an average of 1000 people per year that is the greater threat, or the number of murders in two cities: Chicago and Baltimore, the number which dwarfs the 1000 killed by police, many of which are justified. The police have got to do their part and try to solve these murders, which they do, but run into dead ends with witnesses refusing to talk to police. Police have got to build better relations with the community they serve, but what about the community and what they can do to help? For starters, they need to mobilize and treat every murder like they do police shootings. In one weekend in August, 11 people were murdered and 70 more shot in Chicago. There was few protests or community outrage because the shooters were black, but if one of those shootings had been by police, then people would have taken to the streets.
Now why do I bring all this up? Because here we have an article about some douche talking about what we can do to end white privilege, and all the harm it causes, but once again, the absolute genicide taking place is ignored as a serious threat to black lives and the hypocrisy in the response to police shootings versus the 100:1 ratio of police shootings to black on black violence.
And let’s look at one more factor. Why are police shooting black people? Is it racism? No, i don’t think so. Is it racial bias? Maybe, and here is why. When you have so much violence within a certain community, police are going to be more jumpy when dealing with someone that flees in a car, then on foot, or reaches for their waist, or any number of other factors. The “I feared for my life” excuse is not really an excuse when police are seeing this violence several times a day, then deals with the demographic that is the cause of all this violence. Hell, in the last week, three people have told officers on my shift alone, that they are scared that the police may shoot them because “it happens everyday.” No, it doesn’t. If I were black, and I am not, in fact I am downright pasty, I would be much more afraid of people that looked like me than I would the police, which is just further hypocrisy.