Sweet Home Chicago

In a recent article in the Chicago Sun-Times, it states that Chicago has more murders than New York City. This is total murders, not per capita!! New York has 2 and a half times the population of Chicago, yet we have more murders. How is this possible and why is Chicago doing such a horrible job?

I can bring it back to Giuliani who believed a great way for fighting major crime is to crack down on minor crimes. They stopped underground crimes, such as drugs, prostitution, and dog-fighting. The NYPD are no longer tolerant of the addicts, and will bust them for just about

anything. By cleaning up the area, it suffocates many other crimes. In New York there is a homicide for one out of every 27,874 people. In Chicago it is one for every10,380 people.

The numbers are like this for many other major crimes as well. The real reason is that the police are told to treat citizens as second class citizens instead of equals. This is a shame that they have to do this but the results speak for themselves. Civil liberties are still intact and therefore Chicago should consider adopting many aspects of this policy.

Chicago as well as many other cities has failed fighting crime for a number of reasons. The Police are looking for the high priced offenders, such as issuing speeding tickets, issuing drinking tickets and other small-and-pointless offenses. The fact is that the stop of these types of crimes will not prevent shootings, armed robberies, and auto-thefts. It makes me angry that they choose to fight crimes that just give the department a bigger budget to continue to fight non-important crime. Why else do you think that Urbana, IL has their meter maids driving around Chevy Trailblazers? Wasteful spending and prioritizing which crimes are important are the real issue… it makes me sick that money will always come first. I just want to know how do they sleep at night, oh yeah like my landlord, on a big pile of money.