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Longtime
civil rights advocate Jesse Jackson is telling Barack Obama to return
to his adopted home city of Chicago, where he worked as a community
organizer, and stop the violence, including ordering street patrols by
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, after reports revealed a
surging wave of deadly crime there – and the lax enforcement by local
police agencies.
The reaction from Jackson came after word spread that a 15-year-old
honors student who had performed with her high school band at Obama’s
inauguration in Washington on Jan. 21 had been shot and killed.
That meant as of that point, just a few days ago, there had been 42
homicides and 157 shootings so far in 2013 – in a city with arguably the
toughest gun restrictions in the nation. There were 506 murders in the
city in 2021, up 17 percent from the previous year.
Jackson, who lives in Chicago, told Reuters, “When the president shows up, it shows ultimate national seriousness.”
He also suggested that the way to clamp down on violence would be to have the DHS help patrol Chicago’s streets.
The TeaParty.org quoted from an Infowars.com
report that Jackson already has joined the bandwagon calling on the
federal government, in addition to sometimes patrolling local streets,
to impose “draconian” firearms laws that would prevent “domestic
terrorists” from inflicting harm.
Jackson, who previously unsuccessfully sought the Democratic
nomination to be president and founded the Rainbow Coalition team of
activists, said it is alarming that such weapons as a semiautomatic
rifle are used by “domestic, homegrown terrorism.”
In a separate interview, Obama’s close crony, David Axelrod, admitted the city of Chicago is violent.
“One of the reasons we have such a huge problem in this city is that
all around us are areas with weak laws and with very lax background
checks and a lot of illegal guns flow into this city,” he said.
However, a report from Mark Konkol, a Pulitzer Prize winner who writes at the DNAinfo.com Chicago site, said the problem is that it’s easy to get away with shooting someone in Chicago.
“Last year, gunmen who shot and wounded someone got away without
criminal charges 94 percent of the time, according to a DNAinfo.com
Chicago analysis of police data,” he reported.
See Jackson:
Only 211 of 1,893 aggravated battery with firearms cases were cleared during 2012, Konkol reported.
“Some say the low clearance rate sends the wrong message to Chicago triggermen,” Konkol reported.
He quoted former FBI agent and now Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis.
“If only 6 percent of people involved in nonlethal shootings are
charged, it clearly doesn’t set much of a deterrent. What it says is you
have the pretty good odds that you won’t wind up in court or wind up in
jail.”
According to a report from WLS in Chicago,
Chicago’s current number of shooting deaths compares unfavorably to the
“city’s most notorious crime era, the one that has tarnished Chicago’s
reputation around the world for a century.”
The report by Chuck Goudia said the city is “worse off now in the
category of murder than at the height of the era that has driven
Chicago’s reputation for almost a century, Capone’s ‘gangland’ Chicago.”
He cited two months, January 1929, which led up to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, and January 2013.
“Forty-two people were killed in Chicago last month, the most in
January since 2002, and far worse than the city’s most notorious crime
era at the end of the Roaring Twenties,” he reported. “In January 1929
there were 26 killings…”
The report noted, “There was no real gun control back in Capone’s day.”
Police in Chicago have reported that the honors student, Hadiya
Pendleton, was killed just as Congress was beginning work in earnest on a
proposal that would impose more restrictions on guns – giving the rest
of the nation an atmosphere more like Chicago’s level of weapons bans.
The campaign by Obama follows the shootings of 26 people, including 20 children, in Newtown, Conn., late last year.
Jackson said in the Reuters report that he was concerned that people are just “adjusting” to the violence.
He did not explain his call for DHS agents to be patrolling Chicago,
but the agency was set up following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks
on New York and Washington and it describes its mission as trying to
protect the U.S. from accidents, natural disasters and terrorists.
Gun laws, however, appeared to work just fine in a Florida situation.
There, according to the Gainesville Sun, a man was shot and killed when he forced his way into a home.
Reports identified the attacker as Kenneth David Drown Jr., 21, and
said he had gone to a home where his former girlfriend and their
9-month-old son lived. He brandished a shotgun, but eventually was
disarmed and fled, the report said.
When he returned to the home with another shotgun, just a short time later, the homeowner and a teenager shot him.
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