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Originally Posted by JAYNYC
Chicago is just O.C. I don't care if the issues are isolated to one specific neighborhood/community, those figures/stats are inexcusable.
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It's definitely inexcusable, but it's also been this way for the past 55 years. So there is a fatigue factor involved for caring about it. Year after year after year after year after year after year after decade after decade after decade, the gang-bangers just mow each other down with what should be alarming regularity, but it's so goddamn regular that it's not even slightly alarming at all, just the status quo; same shit, different day. And ~2% of the time an innocent life is tragically lost in the crossfire. The city wrings its hands for several days, and the newspapers are filled with op-eds about what we must do as a city to stop the killings, and then the killers just keep right on killing.
It's not that people aren't trying to reduce the violence in Chicago, it's just that nothing really seems to work. Ever. For over a half fucking century now.