Every week, dozens of lives are taken in the city of Chicago through the use of gun violence. These homicides happen most commonly in the southern neighborhoods of the city, notably areas such as Englewood, Austin, and Humboldt Park just to name a few. It just so happens that the city of Chicago is the city in which it is most difficult to acquire a firearm of any sort with the proper licensing. It is so difficult that we are ranked 1st when it comes to gun control in the United States of America. We are also ranked 1st when it comes to homicides in the U.S.A.…
In Chicago gun violence soared to over a thousand people being shot in the first six months of 2015, a greater number than much larger cities like Los Angles and New York City combined. Eighty-percent of all shootings and murders in Chicago are gang related, and one very important way to do this is to end the cycle of poverty. Stringent laws and larger amounts of patrolling cops may only be a temporary, if at all, solution. Chicago Now states “Chicago cannot police [their] way out of this. The city cannot legislate its way out of this] (Peter V. Bella, 10 June 2015).…
The federal government should intervene in Chicago because the crime percentage is too high. A new year has begun and there has already been “Fifty-four people shot in Chicago last weekend alone, six fatally. That brings the homicide total so far this year to 42, up from 34 during the same time last year, according to Chicago tribune. This shows that Chicago has started the year with high crime rates and it should be quelled. ‘ The government should interfere in Chicago to help with the lack of economy.…
In the article Policing in Honduras: Understanding Gang Proliferation it talks about how Honduras has a high homicide rate due to its organized gangs. (Ratcliff, 2015)Honduras has the unfortunate title and nickname “murder capital of the world” and for good reason. (Ratcliff, 2015)Honduras homicide rate in 2011 was 86 per 100,000 and has approximately 36,000 active gang members.(Ratcliff, 2015) The gang members are made up of 98 percent of 12 to 25 year of age. (Ratcliff, 2015)The nation’s communities are intimidated and controlled by the gangs through extortion, torture and violence.…
In comparison to other countries around the world, the United States reported “33,000 violent street, motorcycle, and prison gang activity in the U.S."(Donnelley, 2014). There are estimated to be more than 1.4 million gang…
On a regular basis violence fills the news stations and social media; drive-by-shootings, theft, graffiti, assaults, home invasions, car jacking’s, fights, stabbings, even murders. Majority of these violent crimes are acts driven by gangs. Just over a year ago a young gang affiliate was shot and killed in a public park near Ward and San Luis (abc30 action news). Shortly after, another incident directly across the street on Ward was another gang related murder of a young teen boy. Gun shots and sirens are heard quite often.…
Gun violence has become a developing issue in Englewood because there have been recent kills in Chicago. The Marketplace Sylvester Monitor reported that…
Before Chicago was so popular and well off it was a city known for its crime. In the 1850’s Chicago had no police force, when they did finally acquire a police unit there were only 60 officers(“Wikipedia”). People could do whatever they wanted, whenever they felt like it. Even before Al Capone, a famous American gangster who ran the streets of Chicago, started his illegal activities the city already had a reputation for crime(“Mental Floss”). Chicago’s rival territories, the North and the East, started being rivals right about the time Al Capone started to dominate the streets of Chicago.…
Larger cities such as Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, and Chicago remain the primary locations of gangs, accounting for roughly two-thirds nationwide. Gang violence in Chicago has gotten worse and worse over the years and still continues to grow today. More and more gangs are increasing their numbers and resorting to deadlier…
The city of Chicago has faced controversy for quite for time. Many claim the city has become so corrupt, that the trail leads all the way up to the city’s mayor, Rahm Emmanuel. Corruption is one of the major problems Chicago faces and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is the face of the corruption that plagues the city. In an article written by Judith Valente, Can Chicago offer a path away from gun violence? She states “More than 2,800 people were shot in Chicago last year, and by December 2015 there had been 417 gun homicides, up almost 20 percent from the previous year.”…
They gang membership has continued to increase over the past five years there have been periodic crime decreases. The last three years were over 16,398 verified violent gang crimes. These include 491 homicides, nearly 7,047 felony assaults, 5,518 robberies and just nearly 98 rapes. CDC homicide the second leading…
In every state and city there is always those type of neighborhoods that we consider or label as bad and dangerous. But what makes these cities so dangerous? Is it the people that settle in the neighborhood that makes them dangerous or the way media portrays them with the violence and segregations of organizations such as gangs and the crime rates? We see this occurring all around the world marking gangs as the number one problem to the situation. As a result we see many laws emerging across the country that focus on the gang “social problem”.…
Organized crime also affected Chicago. “Chicago was notorious for its prostitution industry” (Mappen 11). The rise of organized crime also led to the rise of Chicago’s notoriety. “As alcohol was sold all around them, police officers, public officials, judges, and politicians took bribes or looked the other way” (Blumenthal 3). Organized crime led to the corruption of politicians and public officials in Chicago, which is still present today.…
If things were not worse already individuals residing in gang affiliated neighborhoods are being labeled and punished for actions that have not even occurred yet. Police claims this as prevention and in Legitimated Suppression: Inner-City Mexican Americans and the Police, Robert J. Duran states, “The majority of gang members across the United States have been racially and ethnically labeled by police officers as Latino (47 percent) or African-American (31 percent), and they have been mostly poor (85 percent)” (Duran p.193). My problem with this quote is that the data gathered from police officers, is that it seems to be over-exaggerated because not every person of color is gang affiliated.…
Military style training is needed in our society. Training police officers in this manner has benefits for both the officer and the community. The military produces soldiers that are physically fit, mentally prepared for stressful situations, and educated on the level of enforcement needed in a given situation. Police officers encounter stressful situations every day. Officers are also given broad latitude when dealing with citizens.…