113 People Killed (mostly kids) Thus Far In Chicago, as Some Lawmakers Calling for Guard Deployment . (Something must be done)

Chicago- 459 total murders in 2007 (16.08 per 100,000 people) 2010 murders listed  just this year..

For Chicago, violent crimes are 2.7% times the national average. Isn't that sweet? 

Obama's former 13th district is and was one of the top crack and heroine street market purchasing neighborhoods in Chicago back then and even today, and is bounded by Division street which housed Cabrini Green for decades just to the East of this ward, where the Gold Coast begins and the world renowned  corner of Rush and Division are located...... just off the right of this map.

Not the best neighborhood, and believe you me, Obama did JACK for it while he was there.  JACK.

Of course the police commissioner is against it because it then reflects on the job that the police in Chicago are doing under his, Jody Weis's tenure here.

Crime has gone up, here while dropping elsewhere, so time to look for someone new perhaps and calling an end to the misguided sanctuary city" magnet the city has become causing more people to cross the border because they know if they can get here at least they're home free!!

Isn't this what the billions of dollars spent each year to the nation's second largest police force are for,  no?

I'm all for quelling the violence, just so long as the Guard are sent to the South and West sides and not standing in front of Wrigleyville and the Willis, Sears (or wtf they're calling it now) tower.

Or once again, the majority of the city's citizens who are law abider's must suffer for the incivility and disrespect for the law and life itself due to illegals on the far west side and sad to say but the very poorest of segments of the African American community mostly scattered around the south. 

One way it could be done is that they could use the police around the rest of the city, and send the "able and ready Guardsmen", who are all the best reserves in the world considering they've all rotated in and out of 2 wars for a decade now into the violent neighborhoods where all the ILLEGAL WEAPONRY is located and used on the streets.

So here we are today, and the city from which the elected president comes from, which a year and 4 months after his inauguration needs a permanent National Guard deployment while he was miraculously rewarded for nothing, was made leader of the land.

Talk about an upside down world we're living in today.

And even more sad is that the very people who elected the man will have the guard right in their own neighborhoods should this happen to take place which it won't because they do this every couple of months and that's about the end of it.

Perhaps they would welcome it in their more dangerous than Baghdad neighborhoods, but I wouldn't in any neighborhood which I would  live in. 

I laugh in a sense though as people online scold me all the time for calling America a rapidly deteriorating country that is now in its urban areas turned into a third world nation.  And I say that because Only third world nations need to consider deploying military men and women on their streets permanently. 

 State Representatives John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford along with Willie Williams ((from left), who lost his son to gun violence, call for help in Chicago from the Illinois National Guard during a press conference today at the Thompson Center. (Nancy Stone/ Chicago Tribune)

Thanks to Dave for the link this morning. ;)

Chicago Breaking News: "Two state representatives called on Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday to deploy the Illinois National Guard to safeguard Chicago's streets. Chicago Democrats John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford said they want Quinn, Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis to allow guardsmen to patrol streets and help quell violence. 

Weis said he did not support the idea because the military and police operate under different rules.

'Is this a drastic call to action? Of course it is,' Fritchey said. 'Is it warranted when we are losing residents to gun violence at such an alarming rate? Without question. We are not talking about rolling tanks down the street or having armed guards on each corner.' 

What he envisions, Fritchey said, is a 'heightened presence on the streets,' particularly on the roughly 9 percent of city blocks where most of the city's violent crimes occur. Weis previously identified those 'hot spots' and said he plans to create a 100-person team made up of selected and volunteer police personnel to respond to crime there. If guardsmen were to assist police, they could comprise or contribute to that force, Fritchey said. So far this year, 113 people have been killed across Chicago, the same number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined in the same period, Fritchey said.

'As we speak, National Guard members are working side-by-side with our troops to fight a war halfway around the world,' Fritchey said. 'The unfortunate reality is that we have another war that is just as deadly taking place right in our backyard.' While the National Guard has been deployed in other states to prevent violence related to specific events and protests, the Chicago legislators said they are unaware of guardsmen being deployed to assist with general urban unrest. 

Weis countered that the only scenario in which the National Guard would be helpful is in the situation of a tornado, earthquake or flood. If the military were brought in to help with city violence, they wouldn't answer to police command -- creating a 'major disconnect' in mission and strategy."

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