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Title: State offers to send troopers, Nat'l Guard choppers to fight crime in Chicago
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USA Today
URL Source: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadlin ... 07/state-offers-to.html?csp=34
Published: Jul 18, 2008
Author: Police State
Post Date: 2008-07-18 13:26:55 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 79
Comments: 3
The Chicago Tribune says Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich offered yesterday to send state troopers and National Guard helicopters to help patrol the streets of Chicago during a time of "out of control" crime. "I think we, those of us at state level, need to offer a helping hand, need to do something to help the mayor get his hands around this uncontrolled violence that's taking hold of some communities in the city of Chicago," the governor says, according to the local CBS affiliate. "We're going to see what we could plausibly offer to the city of Chicago to be helpful to do what we can to stop the gun violence and stop the violence," the governor adds. The Chicago Sun-Times says Blagojevich, a Democrat, may establish an "elite tactical team" that focuses on bringing down a crime rate that has hit "epidemic proportions." City officials appeared to be lukewarm to the idea, saying that they only learned about it through the news media. "We're obviously not going to turn away help on a front as important as this," Jacquelyn Heard, a spokeswoman for Mayor Richard Daley, tells the Tribune. "At the same time, we're a little puzzled about how it would work. It's unprecedented." How bad is crime? The Associated Press reports that more than two dozen children have been killed by gunfire since classes began last September. And the Sun-Times cited the following stats from a City Council hearing earlier this week: Compared to this time last year, Chicago has had 28 more homicides, 2,626 more gang disturbances, 1,210 more reports of a person with a gun, 7,136 more reports of shots fired and 473 more reports of narcotics sales. With crime indicators headed upward, police should be more aggressive, but the opposite has occurred. Gang loitering interventions are down 1,163, narcotics loitering interventions have dropped 2,329, and police have taken 500 fewer guns off Chicago streets.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Title: Obama Calls For National Civilian Stasi
I wonder if a fence would work? ;-)
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