Chicago police plan extra patrols in effort to stem weekend violence
Tribune staff report, April 27, 2008
" ... April has been a deadly month, with at least 42 homicides by Wednesday, at least a dozen more than during all of April 2007."More...
" ... April has been a deadly month, with at least 42 homicides by Wednesday, at least a dozen more than during all of April 2007."More...
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From Trib columist Mary Schmich last week:
"Professor Scott, PhD in sociology . . . spent years—he's 40—researching Chicago gangs by hanging out with them, originally while employed in the state attorney general's office. He doesn't claim to have dissected the mayhem that has provoked headlines like the one on AOL Thursday: 'Chicago's Violent Spring Grows Deadlier.'
But he believes treating gang members like terrorists just solidifies the gang, and terms like "gang-related crime" often mislead.
"A lot of the violence we hear about being caused by gangs is kids who do stupid stuff with a gun in their hand," he said. "If we did social autopsies of these crimes, we might realize that the crimes were motivated by factors more important than gang affiliation."
What, he asked, causes the most violence among gang members? Guns? Drugs?
"Disputes over females."
welcome to Chicago, Jody!
"Professor" Scott is full of you know what. I've NEVER seen a more idiotic analysis of this subject in my life. Just another egghead liberal with no real world experience who doesn't let that lack of experience stand in the way of his pontificating on a subject of which he obviously has no real knowlege.
billyjoe, if what Professor Scott claimed were true, would that make the gang murders less criminal?
Is a murder more excusable because it was caused by a "dispute over females" than some other reason?
My belief is the reason that the U.S. has such appalling rates of murder and other extremely violent crimes, is that we have, for the past 40 years, let the perps get off on such excuses.
Additionally, most of our citizens of every socio-economic class have a major problem with self-restraint and impulse control. The only difference in the classes is the area of life in which a person exercises his most destructive impulses- if you're middle class, you go out and run up $100K worth of CC debt and buy a mansion you can't afford with a voodoo mortgage, and if you are underclass, you shoot any homey who looks at you the wrong way or makes a pass at your woman.
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