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Originally Posted by marothisu
Maybe part of it, but the "Heroin Highway" is currently one of the major issues and how many gangs are there selling and vying for drug money. Austin alone has over 13% of all city homicides this year (in 2006 at this time, that percentage was half of what it is today). When you add in the Garfield Parks and North Lawndale, it's 27% of all homicides in the city for a population of only about 173,000.Of course you also have West Englewood, Englewood, New City, Auburn Gresham, and Greater Grand Crossing together with a population of about 192,000 which make up about 30% of all city homicides this year. Such a disparity - but of course the media wouldn't pick up on that. They'd love everyone to believe the entire city is burning.
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Who do you think is buying the drugs? News flash: its not confined to those living in the areas that serve as distribution hubs. Its all walks of life, from all income levels, from all parts of the city. Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a heroin overdose. Get this notion that its all just junkies laying on lower wacker out of your head. I know plenty of people making 6 figures who dont think twice about pulling out coke at a party...somehow theyre not demonized though. Funny how that works.
We are all CHICAGO. These issues are not confined by imaginary neighborhood boundaries. This city needs to take a long hard cold look in the mirror for why it is the way it is, and that includes citizens at every level. It certainly is a convenient argument to just say "those people" lack morals, while creating, reinforcing, and benefiting from the conditions that arise from having an oppressed underclass. Bunch of people born on third base thinking they hit home runs. (and before I get the inevitable "but i grew up poor and pulled myself up by my bootstraps!"...congratulations. maybe it would also be helpful to be cognizant of the fact that not everyone was born with the same abilities).