After reading this article I think it is high time we American born citezens carry a firearm and say fuck Illinois law. Our politicians are to busy trying to steal more money out your pocket then to try to stop the violance. If they really wanted to they can they choose not so they can milk us for more money and pass laws that are unconstitutional and violate every law our founding father's wrote out dated or not I am carrying off duty and I challange any cop who values everything they worked hard for to arrest me on a UUW I dare them cause when I am done not only am I going to take your home and everything you own I will nail the state and county I am arrested in. If all American's had this additude and stepped up to these politicians they would not be robbing you of your hard earned money. Proof of Example Illinois vehicle code state blowing a red light is a traffic violation but all the villages and City have done is make it an ordinance. Under Illinois vehicle code your are responcible for your car so if I were to drive your car and I was caught blowing a red light it is my ticket to fight in court but since it is you own the car your responcible for the red light ticket. The seat belt laws violate your right to religious beliefs under the Constitution let alone the UUW law which violates the 2nd Amendment but read this article
With homicides soaring so far this year and another bloody weekend in the books,
Chicago police intend to announce at roll calls that overtime will be paid to
officers working their days off beginning this weekend, according to a
department-issued memo obtained by the Tribune.
The communication from
First Deputy Superintendent Alfonza Wysinger makes clear that the initiative is
targeted at curbing the growing violence. It comes at a time when the city is
struggling with budget woes.
It was unclear if the
overtime would be paid throughout the summer or how many officers would be
tapped for the program, but the officers could be assigned anywhere in the city,
the internal memo said.
"Officers will be expected to implement
aggressive, proactive violence reduction policing methods including but not
limited to street stops, traffic stops, foot patrol, physical arrests and
enforcement missions," the memo said.
The Fraternal Order of Police,
which has been critical of Mayor Rahm
Emanuel and Superintendent Garry
McCarthy for not hiring additional officers to combat the rising violence,
called the overtime initiative a "Band-Aid approach."
"We've had 1,000
officers retire in the last two years. They've (the department) hired 150," said
Pat Camden, the FOP spokesman.
The potentially costly measure comes on
the heels of a hot and sunny weekend in which 53 people were shot, nine of them
fatally, statistics compiled by the Tribune show.
The weekend ranked as
among the worst so far this year, comparable to an unseasonably hot weekend in
March and Memorial
Day weekend.
For weeks, McCarthy has emphasized that overall crime is
down from last year. But homicides are another story. Through Sunday, 223 people
were slain in Chicago, up 36 percent from the same period last year, according
to a Police Department spokeswoman.
In that same period, there have been
967 shootings, up 11 percent from a year earlier.
Between Friday
afternoon and early Monday morning, 16 of the weekend's shooting victims were
wounded in Lawndale and Little
Village, two West Side neighborhoods that fall within the department's Ogden
District, the Tribune's analysis showed. From Jan. 1 through May 27, the
district led the city with 21 homicides, a 110 percent increase from the same
time period in 2011, according to department statistics. At the same time,
shootings there jumped 51 percent, the department said.
Emanuel, while
attending a news conference Monday with Gov. Pat Quinn to
announce the signing of state racketeering legislation giving county prosecutors
more ammunition to go after gang leaders, did not take questions about the
violent weekend. The law, modeled after the federal RICO law, allows local
authorities to seize gang assets such as drug proceeds and real estate. It takes
effect immediately.
On Monday afternoon, about 70 people gathered outside
St. Sabina Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood to decry the
violence. The Rev.
Michael Pfleger, the church's outspoken pastor, called on residents to take
a stand.
"It's not just numbers. It's not just statistics," he said of
the increase in homicides. "These are human beings."
For Tonya Burch, the
weekend violence brings back painful memories of son Deontae Smith's fatal
shooting in August 2009.
"It just brings back so much," she said as she
passed out fliers advertising a $10,000 award for anyone with information
leading to the arrest and conviction of her son's killer.
"People are
standing around like it's nothing."
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