Chicago: Another fine summer day in Daley's rose garden

[seamusTX]

In the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, a deranged man seized the weapon of a Chicago police officer and fatally shot the officer in the parking lot of a gang task force headquarters during daylight this afternoon.

The alleged lunatic then escaped and committed a robbery.

Police subsequently captured him. He is recovering in the hospital under guard.

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The guy's record is simply unbelievable.

- Jim

[jester]

Well the South side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware


A tragic tale of revolving door "justice" in America.

[TXlaw1]

"Police subsequently captured him. He is recovering in the hospital under guard."

Certainly demonstrates the restraint of the police who captured him. He could had died in a hail of bullets from the brothers in blue of the slain officer. I'll bet someone will be soon charging police brutality.

[Beiruty]

21 arrests and this felon, including shooting his brother, and is still on the streets? Lock him up forever!

[seamusTX]

Sunday morning, a uniformed Chicago police officer was killed in a carjacking. The perpetrators are at large.

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It's a shame he didn't have a gun. Oh, wait ...

R.I.P. He certainly didn't deserve what happened to him.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

On the West Side, a 5-year-old boy shot his identical twin brother to death with a revolver that the boys thought was a toy.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2587 ... 11.article" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



The neighborhood would never be mistaken for the suburbs of paradise, but it sounds like a decent family where somebody committed (ahem) a major act of negligence.

- Jim

[i8godzilla]

Unreal, this is (I believe) the forth LEO killed in Chicago in the last two months.

[seamusTX]

There were 10 shootings last weekend, including two little girls. The place is as dangerous as Kandahar.

- Jim

[cougartex]

[Excaliber]

In the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, a deranged man seized the weapon of a Chicago police officer and fatally shot the officer in the parking lot of a gang task force headquarters during daylight this afternoon.

The alleged lunatic then escaped and committed a robbery.

Police subsequently captured him. He is recovering in the hospital under guard.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/24756 ... 11.article" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The guy's record is simply unbelievable.

- Jim

Where I worked in the metro NY area, almost everybody we arrested for a major crime had a rap sheet so long we didn't even talk about them in terms of number of arrests. We compared them in terms of the feet of continuous roll paper it took to print them out.

[seamusTX]

The cliché is "a rap sheet as long as your arm."

What stuns me are the men with over a dozen felony convictions who are out on parole and then get charged with another violent felony. I'm not an advocate of the death penalty, but people like that need to be pushing up daisies. They have forfeited their right to walk under the sky in a free society.

- Jim

[Excaliber]

The cliché is "a rap sheet as long as your arm."

What stuns me are the men with over a dozen felony convictions who are out on parole and then get charged with another violent felony. I'm not an advocate of the death penalty, but people like that need to be pushing up daisies. They have forfeited their right to walk under the sky in a free society.

- Jim

The arm length ones were just beginners. The ones I'm talking about went from as high as we could hold them over our heads, down to our feet, and another yard or so across the floor. The judge would read them in rolls like a scroll.

Keep in mind that each entry had around a dozen or more lines of text with arrest dates, details, dispositions, etc., but it still took a lot of work to generate that much documentation, and the incidents on the sheet were only the ones they got caught for.

"Three strikes" laws have since helped shorten some felons' careers, but in many cases they still get to do an awful lot of damage before they're locked away for long enough to give the community any rest.

[seamusTX]

On the West Side, a 5-year-old boy shot his identical twin brother to death with a revolver that the boys thought was a toy.

I guess the weapon was improperly reported as a revolver. It is now reported as a .380 semi. A teenage resident of the household found it in an alley and stashed it where the little kids found it (all reportedly, allegedly, etc.).

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 5188.story" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bad hair award of the month, and see if you can get to a dermatologist instead of spending money on tattoos.

- Jim

[TXlaw1]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 5188.story

Bad hair award of the month, and see if you can get to a dermatologist instead of spending money on tattoos.
- Jim

With a little work his hair could look as pretty at Rep. Charlie Rangel.

[Excaliber]

On the West Side, a 5-year-old boy shot his identical twin brother to death with a revolver that the boys thought was a toy.

I guess the weapon was improperly reported as a revolver. It is now reported as a .380 semi. A teenage resident of the household found it in an alley and stashed it where the little kids found it (all reportedly, allegedly, etc.).

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 5188.story" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bad hair award of the month, and see if you can get to a dermatologist instead of spending money on tattoos.

- Jim

This is an example of the type of domestic situation where having a gun in the home is a danger to residents. Criminality and irresponsibility go hand in hand.

Guns in the home are typically not a danger to residents when the household doesn't include convicted felons, as the decline in accidental shootings to the current historic lows during a time of historic highs in gun ownership attests.