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Boywhiz88
Sep 11, 2005

floating 26" off da ground. BURR!
OH poo poo I GOT SHOT LIKE ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE 80+ SHOOTINGS IN A 7 DAY PERIOD IN A MAJOR US CITY.

OH ARGH. IF ONLY WE HAD MORE GUNS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JAMiaGE4s4

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Huge Fucker Bitch
Jan 8, 2004
hussein obummer cant have my guns. don't make me roll coal.

Boywhiz88
Sep 11, 2005

floating 26" off da ground. BURR!

Huge Fucker Bitch posted:

hussein obummer cant have my guns. don't make me roll coal.

Don't let me catch you rolling coal in Traffic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkgahChTkyk

Boywhiz88
Sep 11, 2005

floating 26" off da ground. BURR!
The Interrupters prolly don't have a chance and that's a shame.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/interrupters/

I'd say they don't have a shot, but everyone in Chicago does BLAP BLAP

Modern Day Hercules
Apr 26, 2008
People in southern Illinois never loving shut up about how dangerous Chicago is like every loving minute of their lives they're just suffering chronic anxiety about a city that they couldn't afford to go to even if they wanted to. They're also constantly mad about chicago existing in the first place for some reason and they'd rather be a part of kentucky. These people are so loving retarded that they'd rather be a part of kentucky.

Boywhiz88
Sep 11, 2005

floating 26" off da ground. BURR!

Modern Day Hercules posted:

People in southern Illinois never loving shut up about how dangerous Chicago is like every loving minute of their lives they're just suffering chronic anxiety about a city that they couldn't afford to go to even if they wanted to. They're also constantly mad about chicago existing in the first place for some reason and they'd rather be a part of kentucky. These people are so loving retarded that they'd rather be a part of kentucky.

I think it was murder capital per capita back in 2011 or 2012. And murders are lower, but I think shootings up vs last year. You gotta admit, it's not all roses up there.

Ardemia
Jan 2, 2004

IT IS MY RIGHT TO GET BEHIND THE WHEEL WHEN I'VE PUT BACK SIX SHIRLEY TEMPLES OK

:patriot:
Came to post Chief Keef


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyHZNBz6FE

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Modern Day Hercules posted:

People in southern Illinois never loving shut up about how dangerous Chicago is like every loving minute of their lives they're just suffering chronic anxiety about a city that they couldn't afford to go to even if they wanted to. They're also constantly mad about chicago existing in the first place for some reason and they'd rather be a part of kentucky. These people are so loving retarded that they'd rather be a part of kentucky.

Modern Day Hercules
Apr 26, 2008

Boywhiz88 posted:

I think it was murder capital per capita back in 2011 or 2012. And murders are lower, but I think shootings up vs last year. You gotta admit, it's not all roses up there.

Nope, in 2012 the murder and non negligent manslaughter rate per 100,000 in chicago was 18.5, higher than the national average of 7 something sure. Not murder capital of the US though. Here are some cities with higher rates: Atlanta (19), Baltimore (34.9), Cleveland (21.3), New Orleans (53.2), and goddamn Detroit (54.6). The 2011 rates are pretty similar.

Maybe it's just murder capital of Illinois then? Nope. East St. Louis get that honor with a third world nation score of 62.9 per 100,000. Not even close.

Chicago did have the most murders of any US city in 2012, but it's the third largest city in the US so no poo poo. Any given year it stands a good chance of winning that award just due to how numbers work.

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
People think of American segregation as something that only happened in the South in the Jim Crow era, but there was (and is) plenty of it in Chicago and other Northern cities. The segregation definitely fuels the violence. I grew up in a "nice" (i.e. white) neighborhood that bordered on a "bad" (i.e. black) neighborhood and I never really felt any reason fear for my safety. My parents forbade me from going past Nth Street, though.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

lmao Chicago get bent!!!!

Dred Cosmonaut
Jan 6, 2010

There once was a tiger-striped cat.
calling it, the bulls will be EC champs this year

Miltank
Dec 27, 2009

by XyloJW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w38MidKsWqE

Emanuel Collective
Jan 16, 2008

by Smythe
Reminder that the CPD under Rahm Emanuel is cooking the gently caress out of the city's crime stats, sometimes to the point of letting brutal murders get classified as minor death investigations and letting murderers go free

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/


Chicago Magazine posted:

On March 17, two days after Maurice Harris got pummeled, police were called to the top floor of a red-brick three-flat in Pilsen. A man who had just returned home from a trip smelled a “foul odor” coming from a plastic air mattress in the bedroom of a roommate he hadn’t seen in weeks. When he started pulling debris from the mattress, he saw a grotesquely decomposed human head. The rest of the body was cocooned in garbage.

Investigators opened the bag to find that the corpse was a woman’s, wrapped in a blood-soaked blanket. She was wearing turquoise jogging pants, a black camisole, a hoodie, and boots. Police identified her as Michelle Manalansan, 29, a student at Harold Washington College. She had last been seen at her downtown apartment on February 9. The police report adds that investigators were told by witnesses that the absent roommate “was the last person seen with [Michelle].”

The roommate, police learned, was wanted by the Cook County sheriff for a probation violation. They also learned that a relative had bought him a ticket to Los Angeles on a train that left Chicago six days after Manalansan disappeared.

Despite the circumstances, police classified the case as a noncriminal death investigation. A detective soon made it an even lower priority: He suspended the case until the roommate could be “located and interviewed.”


Manalansan’s death certificate on file with the Cook County clerk’s office says that she died by homicide—specifically, blunt head and neck trauma. But at presstime, her case had still not been classified as criminal. The roommate was still at large.

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

Modern Day Hercules posted:

People in southern Illinois never loving shut up about how dangerous Chicago is like every loving minute of their lives they're just suffering chronic anxiety about a city that they couldn't afford to go to even if they wanted to. They're also constantly mad about chicago existing in the first place for some reason and they'd rather be a part of kentucky. These people are so loving retarded that they'd rather be a part of kentucky.

SpeedGem
Sep 19, 2012

by Ralp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nULlfJDvk

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT

Emanuel Collective posted:

Reminder that the CPD under Rahm Emanuel is cooking the gently caress out of the city's crime stats, sometimes to the point of letting brutal murders get classified as minor death investigations and letting murderers go free

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/

What the gently caress is the purpose of this?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Pththya-lyi posted:

People think of American segregation as something that only happened in the South in the Jim Crow era, but there was (and is) plenty of it in Chicago and other Northern cities. The segregation definitely fuels the violence. I grew up in a "nice" (i.e. white) neighborhood that bordered on a "bad" (i.e. black) neighborhood and I never really felt any reason fear for my safety. My parents forbade me from going past Nth Street, though.

Yeah it's de facto segregation by north/south.


also

stratdax
Sep 14, 2006

Animal-Mother posted:

What the gently caress is the purpose of this?

Watch The Wire, yo

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Animal-Mother posted:

What the gently caress is the purpose of this?

Basically the ol' sweep it under the rug solution so you can do the whole crime reduction talking point during election time.

NYPD did a similar clever trick to help meet their crime reduction quota.

Changing the numbers is sort of easier than actually fixing the problem.

SevenSixTwoX39
Jun 28, 2009

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

Boywhiz88 posted:

OH poo poo I GOT SHOT LIKE ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE 80+ SHOOTINGS IN A 7 DAY PERIOD IN A MAJOR US CITY.

OH ARGH. IF ONLY WE HAD MORE GUNS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JAMiaGE4s4

Luckily the stats show that when you give white people guns as we've seen in Chicago, crime goes down as per this article:

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/5/gun-advocates-credit-new-concealed-carry-laws-shar/

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
lol chicago why does that city still even exist

like, just why

ImPureAwesome
Sep 6, 2007

the king of the beach
I went to the field museum on Saturday and saw some dinosaurs and mummies. I like going every couple of years

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

ImPureAwesome posted:

I went to the field museum on Saturday and saw some dinosaurs and mummies. I like going every couple of years

There's a biology research lab on the second level that's separated from the museum by windows, so you can watch the researchers doing their stuff and sometimes ask them questions through speakers. Last time I was at the Field I had a brief chat with a lady who was sequencing fish DNA. I think it's great that there are places where people can learn about how science is done.

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
Another nice place in Chicago is the Winter Garden on the ninth floor of the Harold Washington Library:



Hardly anyone goes there, so it's a nice place to read under natural light. If you are a high schooler you should also check out the teen room on the first floor - I'm jealous of all the stuff they get to do. Why couldn't they have had that room when I was a teenager?

Misandrist Duck
Oct 22, 2012
keepin it 100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DlZFAbPUlQ

SpeedGem
Sep 19, 2012

by Ralp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npxb_Cj0k74

ImPureAwesome
Sep 6, 2007

the king of the beach

Pththya-lyi posted:

There's a biology research lab on the second level that's separated from the museum by windows, so you can watch the researchers doing their stuff and sometimes ask them questions through speakers. Last time I was at the Field I had a brief chat with a lady who was sequencing fish DNA. I think it's great that there are places where people can learn about how science is done.

Yeah I asked them some questions about their equipment cause I like learning how the tech works

Sunshine Mix
Jun 11, 2009

Moridin920 posted:

lol chicago why does that city still even exist

like, just why

It's a wonderful city with some horrific parts. Running with the "Chiraq" theme, it's less like Baghdad and more like Greater Paris (under Chirac [this is a banlieue reference])

but gently caress Chicago; if you want to live in an urban area in the Midwest come to Minneapolis and not die

SevenSixTwoX39
Jun 28, 2009

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
I stayed in Chicago for two weeks in 2012 and found no compelling reason why a person would want to live out their days there given any other option

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

SevenSixTwoX39 posted:

I stayed in Chicago for two weeks in 2012 and found no compelling reason why a person would want to live out their days there given any other option

I grew up there, so the familiarity would be comforting

Also I happen to enjoy deep dish pizza. I understand that many people don't and I'm okay with that


(Edwardo's is best. Please feel free to argue for your favorite deep dish place)

SpeedGem
Sep 19, 2012

by Ralp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqUdoX9r7KU

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

:crossarms:

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004


why the gently caress does this keep getting posted
probably by the same person but i dont loving care enough to check

Tonetta
Jul 9, 2013

look mother look at ME MOTHER MOTHER I AM A HOMESTIXK NOW

**methodically removes and eats own clothes*
On the ground floor in my hometown

Much like the 80 people who got shot this week

kindermord
Jun 5, 2003
ducks is chickens with swimmy toes
best song about chiraq. i skipped right to the best part for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opK67XdRmks&t=3m18s

i wonder if quaddy goon has an account here

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

kindermord posted:

best song about chiraq. i skipped right to the best part for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opK67XdRmks&t=3m18s

i wonder if quaddy goon has an account here

i've had just about enough of your potty mouth, young man

banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




noone calls it chiraq except for dumbass out of towners or people who think they live in a bad neighborhood aka lakeview

The Brown Menace
Dec 24, 2010

Now comes in all colors.


so what i'm gathering here is that when deus ex-esque collapse of the US central government scenarios come true in 2-3 decades, chicago will be one of those places where PMCs who are in cahoots with shady one-world government conspiracy groups do the policing and gun down rioters and poo poo without any accountability or whatever

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FormerPoster
Aug 5, 2004

Hair Elf
I've spent six years here and I every day I pray to God that today is the day I can leave. Someday I'll see you again, hills, oceans, and livable weather :cry:

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