I can't speak to other places but I can in Chicago. Something needs to be done because what has been going on now ain't working. Chicago is such a beautiful city but these knuckleheads have it to where you might be scared to go anywhere in the city. You should keep your head on a swivel in any unfamiliar land but only in Chicago does it feel like there are a lot of Chief Keef looking nikkas with burners on the waist. I used to love going to the Taste of Chicago, I'm not taking my family there now as it ain't how it used to be. Not to say that killers have discretion about who they murk but so many people in Chicago will shoot first without hesitation. It's different here. Anything I do go into the city, I fill up my gas tank because I'm only there for what I need to be there for. I used to work in North Lawndale at UCAN doing finance. My family pleaded with me to stop working there because truthfully, the shyt that is happening now, it's bigger than us. After the 5th person got shot within two blocks of my job at the time, that's when the full court press was on from my family. Ever talk to a mother that is scared to let her son go across the damn street to hoop because the gangs are initiating people there? Son is 15 years old and is left to dribble his basketball in front of his house like he's five. That's no way to live.
Explain to us how a stat like that is even real. JANUARY still had a week to go before it finished and it is fukking cold.
We even had a breh from Chicago detail how he got shot and defended himself.
We are just tired of the bullshyt. This action might not look like what we want it to look it but everything else that has happened hasn't worked so fukk it, get the bad characters off the streets and let people feel safe in their homes and neighborhoods.
Rep for telling it like it is and not being a flexin ass p*ssy like @Losttribe. I’ve been around alot of people shell shocked from war and you see the same jitteryness jumpyness and empty looks all around that city. Those people may never truly be at peace again mentally and it will leak into everything else they got going in life. As you said no way for a person to live.
People blaming economics are maybe not wrong but its far from the main reason. I’ve been around poor black people in places like Mississippi, the Carolinas and GA where the poverty is far worse but they don’t have above any of the violence.
I would think the culture of glamorizing shooting up family homes and “opp packs” has far more to do with it but that’s just me.