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| Maybe it is Baghdad... 508 Chicago School Students Shot In 16 Months |
| 2009-03-10 |
| Twenty-five Chicago Public School students have been murdered this year. As shocking as that number is, there is another figure that's very disturbing as well: the number of students who have been shot in a 16-month period is enough to fill an elementary school - 508 students, according to school officials. CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine asks why, and what is being done to stop it. Think about it. By this time tomorrow, odds are at least one Chicago Public School student will have been shot. By this time next week, there'll be seven. It's a staggering, frightening, shameful statistic that judging from the reaction we got, those who could do something aren't anxious to talk about. "No one really wants to address this but we need to call for a state of emergency," said Pastor Roosevelt Watkins. |
| Posted by:Clineck Smith6591 |
| #11 CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine asks why, and what is being done to stop it. Possible Solutions: 1. Combat pay for teachers. 2. Hire Blackwater to supply Community Organizers. 3. Predator drones. 4. Form militia, "Sons of Chicago". 5. Bi-lingual education in Gangsta Rap. 6. Send Gang Bangers to guard passes in Tora Bora. 7. Phoenix program and rendition. 8. Midnight Basketball, that'll due the trick. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-10 16:49 |
| #10 |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-10 15:35 |
| #9 CBS 2 wanted to speak with Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis about the startling statistics, but we were told by an aide that after leaving federal court Monday morning, he was too busy. Witness or defendant? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-10 13:47 |
| #8 No cops---call your community organizer! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-10 13:47 |
| #7 Works for me, cp. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-10 13:46 |
| #6 It is high time the US pulled out of Chicago. Clearly it is our presence there that is generating more violence than it is preventing. Having occupied Chicago since its founding in 1837, it is obvious that our results have come bear no fruit. We shouldn't be babysitting a civil war. Chicago needs to be split into three different regions; This Side, That Side, and The Other Side. We are never going to get the corruption and violence under control so there is little point in trying. All National Guard forces currently in the Chicago area should be redeployed to Goshen. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2009-03-10 13:43 |
| #5 Perspective, of course police aren't welcome. If you are a crook, you want to rob people, you don't like police. If you are a decent citizen, what do you think of police? If you tell them where the crooks are, your life is going to be short. If you buy a gun to defend yourself, you are now a crook, and risk getting shot by the police. I don't have any solutions, but the problems are clear. |
| Posted by: flash91 2009-03-10 12:47 |
| #4 Let me see if I understand: those are the neighborhoods Obama organized and he was elected president despite his dismal failure? |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-03-10 12:40 |
| #3 "It's like rarely do you see a police officer drive by," said 12-year-old Beverly Lambert. And if little Beverly did see constant police patrols, her neighborhood would be "under siege" and "oppressed by police". The police don't come around much because they know without a shadow of a doubt that they're not welcome. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-03-10 10:18 |
| #2 How could they be shot with the massive gun control still in effect in Chicago? /sarcasm off File under: the bad guys never care about 'gun control'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-03-10 09:24 |
| #1 More evidence of the successful leadership and administration provided by the Chicago political machine. Now playing nationally. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-03-10 08:44 |