AmericanMirror: Chicago Alderman Ray Lopez wants Mayor Rahm Emanuel to make good on his 2011 campaign promise to hire 1,000 more police to quell the city’s never-ending gang violence.
Lopez is also demanding that Emanuel call in the Illinois National Guard, state police, sheriff’s officials or any other law enforcement to protect the city’s law-abiding residents from thugs that have killed and wounded hundreds with gunfire this year, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
“Are you willing to engage with the National Guard? Maybe that’s a discussion we have to have,” Lopez told WLS radio. “Are you willing to engage the State Police to come into Chicago? Maybe that’s a discussion,” he said. read more
Chicago is the model city for gun control for law abiding citizens, failed education system, corruption in government, huge generational public assistance programs and funding worthless social organizers. Thugs have always run Chicago behind the scenes, now the thugs are on the streets killing each other and innocent citizens.
You created your own sewage city, you clean it up.
The Alderman needs to do his homework. Rahm Emanuel is a mayor and has no authority to call in the National Guard. That responsibility is tasked to the Governor and state AG. If liberals are convinced the police departments are filled with racist murderers, wait until they get a load of (literally) an 18 year old guardsmen toting an assault weapon on the south side of Chicago.
> guardman
@gwen
“Guardperson.”
Don’t want anyone/thing/being/animal/etal offended, now do we?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlTlYfqQV4.
The National Guard has artillery, right? Best bring it.
Boy, that puts democrats in a pickle, doesn’t it? Call in 1,000 more racist police to stop the blacks that Black Lives Matter doesn’t care about from killing each other. No, if one of these new, 1,000 cops kills a black in Chicago, while preventing that individual from killing other blacks, will BLM care about it?
Posse Comitus?
No standing armies, which are a threat to liberty?
Bueller?…Bueller?…anyone know anything about the dangers of this approach?
Solution: Chicago inhabitants need to vote out Democrats en masse. Then maximum prosecution for all criminals in Chicago, end all of the asinine gun control laws and have the citizens arm up, and then much of the violence would go away as criminals are taken off the street for good and citizens defend themselves.
Chicago went down the tubes long ago. While the city is only about 35 miles from here, I avoid it at all costs. My wife and my friends all know there’s no planning to go anywhere near the city with me. It’s funny because I’ll hear them talking about a showeek, event or similar and then I hear, he won’t go.
Can we have the PLA police the city council?
(I’ve read they’re quite experienced with self-dealing officials.)
Every day… the comparisons to Iraq, grow!
Chiraq, they call it. If the Guard shows up, look for the residents to start making IEDs.
They wouldn’t allow the Guard to have ammo, thereby making them into targets.
Gwenn,
That’s “Assault Rifles” which is an actual term with an actual definition, “Assault Weapon” is a term entirely made up by the left to encompass anything they think looks scary.
We can not allow them to make up words and change the definitions of existing ones like “arms”.
I use to live there. What a hell hole. And it has only gotten worse.
Thank a democrat for the change.
It will be a miracle if Chicago PD can keep the number of cops they have now, much less add more to the force. Today’s environment has made it damn near impossible to recruit people into police work.
i used to live there as well. 122d and Halsted. Would not go back. Unless I had Sox, Bulls, Bears or Blackhawk playoff tickets.