"...But in Chicago, there are more reasons for tears than laughter. Unemployment is high in many poor African American communities, and crime rates are horrific. One can barely call them communities. For too many, parenting skills are woefully inadequate. Innocent young children out in late night and early morning hours with a parent nearby have been shot. The leading cause of death of young black men is lead poisoning. Jobs are scarce. Decent people are afraid of gangs in their so-called communities. While most of the negative results have fallen on the black community, as I've stated in earlier years, it's not a race war, it's a class war.
More Shooting Deaths in Chicago than in Afghanistan So Far This Year
On June 25, 2012, the New York Times ran a front page story about the 38% rise in killings in Chicago. Most of the deaths were due to black on black crime. Again, Chicago has a lot of crime, and it is not limited to black communities, but the fact is that crime is concentrated in gang dominated black communities and in non-black communities where non-black gangs have taken hold. Gang warfare has exacerbated the problem:
"That's somebody's husband, somebody's son, and they're dying right on our block," said Maya Hodari, who lives on a South Side street where two shootings have already taken place this year, one of them fatal and another as a toddler looked on. "It hurts."
Yet schools report that teachers can't discipline children, and when they speak to a parent, they are often met with denial and verbal abuse instead of cooperation and backup. Police have difficulty getting cooperation from witnesses. Budget cuts have resulted in an undermanned and demoralized police force (see the following commentary)..."
at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-tavakoli/third-world-america-2012_b_1653745.html#ixzz203tXqXkr
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