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Originally Posted by DeanFL
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OMG!!! HATE? Really GOM??
How about the MAIN ongoing Black issue in this great city??? shhhhh...
In Chicago, 956 people were shot in the first four months of 2021—217 more than the same point in 2020, which was a record-setting year for shootings in the Illinois city.
The Chicago Tribune, which tracks all of the area's shooting victims, recorded that 956 people were shot between January 1 and April 26. It should be noted that the weekly data set provided by the newspaper reports the number of victims, not the amount of shootings.
At this point last year, 739 people were hit by gunfire in Chicago. A total of more than 4,130 people were shot in Chicago last year, the most in a single year since 2016, when more than 4,300 individuals were shot, and the second-highest since the Tribune began tracking the data back in 2012.
The number of shooting victims is likely to rise after another weekend of violence in Chicago. Forty-five people were shot, five fatally, in incidents across the city. In one attack, the victim was a 17-year-old boy who was shot Sunday while driving in West Garfield Park.
But SHE wants to avoid the Press from focusing on THAT... IDIOTIC. TYPICAL politician.
Chicago’s mayor declared that she would only grant one-on-one interviews to minority journalists to protest the lack of diversity in the Windy City press corps.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the first black woman and openly gay person elected to run that city, confirmed the move Tuesday after members of the local press took to Twitter saying they had been denied interviews based on their skin color.
“By now, you may have heard the news that on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as Mayor of this great City, I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with journalists of color,” Lightfoot said in a letter to local media provided The Post.
“As a person of color, I have throughout my adult life done everything that I can to fight for diversity and inclusion in every institution that I have been a part of and being Mayor makes me uniquely situated to shine a spotlight on this most important issue.”
A Lightfoot spokesperson later clarified that the protest only pertains to interviews about her anniversary in office.
Lightfoot said her 2019 election was praised for breaking barriers.
“I ran to break up the status quo that has failed so many resident across our city,” Lightfoot said.
“And that failing status quo did not apply simply to City Hall and City government,” she added.
“It pertains and exists in all public and private institutions.”
Lightfoot challenged local media to hire more people of color and women of color to their staffs.
“I have been struck since my first day on the campaign trail back in 2018 by the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically,” she said.
Lightfoot said that during a “historic reckoning around systemic racism” many businesses and educational institutions have launched efforts to “address the deep=seated legacies of institutionalized racism.
“In looking at the absence of diversity across the City Hall press corps and other newsrooms, sadly it does not appear that many of the media institutions in Chicago have caught on and truly have not embraced this moment,” she said.
The mayor bashed local outlets for only having a “handful” of people of color who cover her administration. The group of reporters covering City Hall is “practically all white” and there’s not one woman of color among them, she said.
Her letter outlining these "issues>>>
2 Year Anniversary Letter.pdf - Google Drive
Chicago's mayor refuses to give interviews to white reporters |
I read in the NY Times two years ago that the vast majority of the shooters were already involved in criminal activities and gang activities and were known to the police. Most of these were not known to have shot anyone yet, but the Chicago Police Department person interviewed said that the department considered them people most likely to shoot people in the next few years. (This helps make them easier to catch after they do shoot someone.) The person said that shootings in Chicago could be virtually stopped if the police were allowed to arrest about 2,500 young men and remove them from the general population. Of course, this can’t be done because we don’t arrest people for Future Crimes.
Of course, the fortunate thing is that most of the people they shoot are also on this list. The bad boys are mostly shooting other bad boys. Most who are shot who are not among the bad boys are their relatives and acquaintances, people who raised them wrong and discovered that there was nothing more they could do, or their siblings and children who might be on the same course. Thus, this is a self-canceling element in society, cleansing society in a way that the police are not allowed to do.
While I would be terrified to live in those neighborhoods, people choose to live there because it is home, because they enjoy the cultural benefits of friends and shopping and familiarity and all. If they can’t take it anymore, they can move, but many of those who do miss their neighborhoods and go back often. People put up with the bad in order to enjoy the good things. We make our choices. We weigh our options. Even if we live here, we have weighed our options. Probably more people have died in my village here in the past year than have the same number in the worst areas of Chicago. Of course, none of them were shot, but they still died. If I can’t deal with that, I can move. I left all of my friends and family behind when I moved here. People in the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago can do that, too, if they are willing to make the sacrifice in exchange for the gain.