buddha

so do you.

the bears seemingly have a lot of cap space, but 3/4 of their team are free agents. they have a ton of players to sign. the rest of the team is old. the bears are not in great shape unless you think justin fields is the real deal. then they still have to put a team around him.

but not about this, you're right about the fords. the mccaskeys have won a super bowl and been to a second. the fords have never sniffed a super bowl.

wrong again tater. lol.

good for stafford! things get a little tougher next week.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.suntimes.com/platform/amp/crime/2022/1/3/22858995/chicago-violence-dangerous-murders-per-capita-2021-2020-surge-garfield-park-police-lori-lightfoot neighborhoods like West Garfield Park — those with high levels of poverty and mostly minority residents — the level of violence has likely never been worse, according to data compiled by the University of Chicago Crime Lab and a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of city violence data. *** something for everyone in there. certainly not just a "scare white people" article.

oh, i'll play! what are "cities that don't have as many people killed as chicago"!

you're nuts. i hope you dont carry your wallet with you, or your phone. i had a claim on west madison once. some lady claimed she fell in a grocery store. i took 290 from napertucky and then came up a side street. nothing but vacant lots and burned out houses. lots of folks just walking around aimlessly in the middle of the day. lots of young males in white t shirts on corners. no thanks. reminded me of detroit, back in the day. lol. we went to the garfield conservatory for a wedding once. got sent down side streets. reminded me of watching the wire. lots of people hanging out on stoops, looking rough.

east garfield park is a shit hole. i wouldnt ride my bike through there or not be worried if my wife were walking around there at night if i were chas. lol.

suffice to say, i dont agree with almost all of this post. lol. tater, you and i come from different perspectives. but we can both agree that america has a long history of racism that has created the structural disadvantages that help create the black-white inequality we see today. at least i think we can agree on that. 🙂

he's already moved on to 2022. but so far in 2022, the victims of shootings have been 17 black people, 2 hispanics, and 2 whites. its gives a neighborhood breakdown too. there's even been two in chas's neighborhood. 😉

heyjackass.com will give you detailed breakdowns of the crime in chicago. where it is, who does it, who the victims are.

i suggest you should spend some time in other countries and find out how they actually feel about people that arent the same as them. the united states has a horrible history of mistreatment of non-white citizens (as does canada, btw, ask the first peoples), and no other modern western nation was partially built on the backs of internal slave labor (plenty of other countries were built on slave labor, but not modern countries we like to think of as founded in the western tradition). the impoverishment of black americans is largely a product of their legal enshrinement as second class citizens and the lowest caste of society. america has much to answer for in that respect. that said, the united states today is one of the most liberal and welcoming countries in the world for foreigners and one of the most tolerant societies on the planet for racial, sexual, and sexual orientation differences. including for black americans. the united states is extremely diverse, unlike most of the other countries you cite as being so much more advanced than us socially. when faced with immigration, those societies often return to the base values that pervade most societies of blaming the "other" for their problems and demonizing those who are not like them. as you can see in the rise of far right parties in europe.

murders up 9% and car jackings up 200%. i guess it all depends on what data you want to look at.

what would "out of control" be for you? focusing on how MB turned a phrase probably isnt the best way to describe crime levels in chicago. certain violent crimes have increased, especially in poorer neighborhoods. crime has always interested me, so i search out stories about it. perhaps that's why my perceptions of crime are different than yours. you would likely argue that it warps my perceptions, and i would argue it makes me more informed on the subject.

or san francisco and philadelphia, where youve had black politicians calling out white prosecutors for their lax attitudes towards crime and criminals. youve had the same thing in chicago to an extent as the mayor and the chief of police have both called out the courts and prosecutors for failing to do their jobs. but the press here has attacked both of them. and in chicago - unlike philly and sf - all the major players and power brokers are black. we'll see if some of the more "progressive" city officials actually lose their elections. i doubt it considering that's who controls the democratic party in chicago. but some of the democratic socialist alderman might lose next year. we'll see.

i think the ire of the media and the left is directed at the police for those shootings. most people dont think that way. most surveys of black people find that they want MORE police, not less. hispanics and asians are pretty pro police. the activist class and "well meaning whites" may be well represented in the media, but most folks dont think that way.

i think its really hard to argue that chicago doesnt have a murder problem. comparing chicago to its peer cities of new york and los angeles shows just how severe that problem is. you can quibble with the meaning of the term "out of control", but the number of murders is an issue. crime in chicago is a big issue locally, and now nationally too as it becomes the poster child for attacks on democratic crime mitigation efforts. the democrats are facing a branding problem. they have talked about police misconduct issues and "root cause of crime" issues and structural racism and unfairness in sentencing issues as the real problems. theyve put into place prosecutors and city officials with the same mindset in big cities like new york, chicago, san francisco, and philadelphia. the crime rates in these cities - for whatever reason - has increased. now the backlash is occurring. i dont think its all down to the media because the media reports ive read have been mixed between complimentary and antagonistic. i think people have a sense that certain violent crimes are increasing because certain violent crimes are increasing. i think the democrats are about to get absolutely waxed in the next elections and increasing crime - and their apparent acquiescence to it - is a big reason why. crime and inflation.

people on the south and west sides might have a different opinion on the crime being out of control issue than you or I.

i would think people would be angry with the police for failing to do their jobs. and if you look at the major news media outlets in town, they publish plenty of pieces criticizing the police. the latest tribune piece i saw called them out for their takes on electronic monitoring. we usually watch pbs news and wgn and they have much different takes on crime reporting, lol. i think people are interested in crime and murder so that's what is covered in most of the media. on the one hand, if you live here your life largely goes on as normal and you dont really notice crime unless it happens to you. otoh, you also become numb to crime because it happens so often it appears almost normal to have 5-10 people murdered every weekend and for carjackings to be up 200% since 2019. i think people should be MORE critical of the police because whatever theyre trying isnt working. instead, the right doubles down on meaningless praise of "our heroes in the police force" while the left puts its head in the sand on crime while focusing only on police misconduct. they miss the forest by focusing on specific trees.

its the media's fault.

ah yes, the annual fuck you stan van gundy game.

more runs for the league, more fat dh salaries for the players. win win.

20+ shots for the wings in the first period. most in a period all season.

buffalo has had so many top picks and yet theyve been so bad for so long...