Chicago City Wire reports on an ambush of Chicago PD conducted by the Latin Kings gang. From the article:
The source said the incident unfolded late night on Friday, April 4, when police responded to a 9-1-1 call at 2340 South Sacramento.
However, when the police vehicle approached the location, it became clear the call was a setup, with gang members who were hiding in an alley opening fire on the car.
According to the police source, the “ambush” could have escalated dramatically had the gang members' gun not malfunctioned. The gun purportedly jammed, preventing future shots from being fired.
The ambush came about a week after an "anonymous" threat was phoned into the Chicago PD declaring a war on the Department after crackdowns in an area called Little Village known for it heavy gang activity and illicit drug trade.
"Diversity is our strength." I wonder how long until Chicago becomes an abandoned hellscape like Detroit.
ReplyDeleteSometime near the end of the second term of the next Democrat president.
DeleteThere are more urban centers than just Chicago on that list.
ReplyDeleteWhich makes me wonder about something: The United States Constitution provides for Letters of Marque to not just enable but also to a degree, indemnify, private responses to pirating; would the U.S. Constitution, and the constitution of any of the states, allow a similar provision for private response to such activity within the state's borders?
Were such conditions, legal and constitutional, to exist for private groups to eradicate criminal threats with the unfettered, and untaxed, ability to retain such largesse as may be recovered, to include real estate and any potential profits therefrom, such an incentive could produce substantial positive results.
A measure like that would be strongly resisted by the local Donut Wranglers, and all the "right thinking people" who support them and have a financial interest in the existing turmoil, because it would highlight their ineffectiveness and incompetence, but sometimes it take Outside The Box Thinking to produce results.
There used to a be a legal concept of a criminal being declared outside the law--i.e., an outlaw--whereby they were stripped of the protections of the law. The could be detained or even killed with impunity.
DeleteChicago: far downhill of when I was there, and I it was bad then.
ReplyDeleteTrump's immigration actions have probably given Chicago (and other major urban centers) a bit of a reprieve as to cartel influence, but that will disappear once Democrats regain control of immigration policy.
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