What is the deal in Chicago?

[djmatt]

just curious.. I do understand

no hurt feelings =0)

 

[SundayTiger]

The fact that the weather is getting warmer has alot to do with it. Alot more corner boys will be out on the corner hustling in the warm weather.

 

[TonyMar]

Black on Black crime happens ALL the time, but this time it was a bit extreme. You don't see this happening in Winetka or Evanston..OR even Homewood. Its an inner city thing, Turf is everything to these guys. Life isn't respected, its all about respect and the all mighty dollar

 

[barman]

The policy of 21st century Prohibition produces the same results in Chicago (and elsewhere) as produced by the initial version of Prohibition from 1920-1933.

Illegal drug dealers cannot resolve their differences in a civil court like legal drug dealers do. And they cannot hire legal security forces like legal drug dealers do.

So instead they shoot it out on the streets.

Kids become involved because illegal drug dealers - unlike legal drug dealers - routinely recruit minors to help market their produc ts.

Not really a big mystery here.

Ending drug Prohibition will move at least 95% of the drug market off the street corners and into a legal, regulated market that is virtually free from violence between rival dealers and/or their customers.

 

[whormoan]

Rashard Mendelhall robbed at gunpoint. See other thread.

 

[FairWarning]

Obama can't even keep his state safe. Remember this when you vote.

 

[barman]

Obama can't even keep his state safe. Remember this when you vote.

No elected official at any level can lower the violence that is ancillary to the illegal drug trade unless they assist in ending the policy of drug Prohibition.

 

[D2bets]

Obama can't even keep his state safe. Remember this when you vote.

You must be kidding.

 

[Legend-I-Aint]

No elected official at any level can lower the violence that is ancillary to the illegal drug trade unless they assist in ending the policy of drug Prohibition.

How many people who don't use heroin now, would use heroin if it were somehow made legal?

Probably not many!

I still don't like the thought of legalizing it.:WTF:

 

[barman]

I still don't like the thought of legalizing it (heroin)

Me neither, except that I recognize that a legal, regulated market for heroin is far preferable to an illegal market that is 100% unregulated and is controlled completely by street dealers, criminal gangs and cartels.

Legal drug dealers don't shoot each other, don't shoot police and don't shoot innocent bystanders.

Legal drug dealers don't knowingly sell to minors, nor recruit minors to sell for them.

Legal drug dealers don't knowingly sell product that is tainted and incorrectly labeled for purity and content.

 

[FairWarning]

You must be kidding.

No. When was he last in the city? I forgot, Daley has it under control. How come this crime wave isn't in other cities, or is Chicago the only one with a big heroin problem?

 

[FairWarning]

Me neither, except that I recognize that a legal, regulated market for heroin is far preferable to an illegal market that is 100% unregulated and is controlled completely by street dealers, criminal gangs and cartels.

Legal drug dealers don't shoot each other, don't shoot police and don't shoot innocent bystanders.

Legal drug dealers don't knowingly sell to minors, nor recruit minors to sell for them.

Legal drug dealers don't knowingly sell product that is tainted and incorrectly labeled for purity and content.

Illegals will do whatever to whomever, whenever whether its legal or not.

 

[barman]

No. When was he last in the city? I forgot, Daley has it under control. How come this crime wave isn't in other cities, or is Chicago the only one with a big heroin problem?

The violent crime connected to the illegal trade and the crippled poverty related to heroin addiction are alive and well in at least 20 major U.S. population centers. The story from Chicago is simply the most dramatic splash in past couple weeks of national news.

 

[barman]

Illegals will do whatever to whomever, whenever whether its legal or not.

Unregulated street dealers cannot financially compete with a fairly regulated legal drug market. Those currently involved in the illegal drug trade may well elect to gravitate towards other criminal activity when we end 21st century Prohibition. But one thing they won't be doing with any significance is dealing drugs.

 

[valium]

Obama can't even keep his state safe. Remember this when you vote.

You are joking right? With your logic do i need to tell you what the neighborhood around the white house is like and that is where the president lives.

 

[HisIsTheHand]

Illegals will do whatever to whomever, whenever whether its legal or not.

I thought gangbangers and members of organized crime that are currently in the drug trade would start voting and paying taxes right after drug sales were made legal.

If they would only make drugs legal, our culture would improve.

 

[FairWarning]

If they would only make drugs legal, our culture would improve.

How? Society should raise standards, not lower them.

Barman - Can legal sportsbetting in LV compete with Pinny and other "illegal" sportsbooks? Of course not. Don't think that street dealers wouldn't be able to compete, because they will.

 

[gtc08]

fairwarning pwned by barman on the DC shot at bush.

damn i hate that word pwned.

 

[bigtendominator]

How? Society should raise standards, not lower them.

Barman - Can legal sportsbetting in LV compete with Pinny and other "illegal" sportsbooks? Of course not. Don't think that street dealers wouldn't be able to compete, because they will.

No, because it is only in Las Vegas and the state of Nevada. What do you think would happen to off-shore if you every state had Vegas styles sportsbooks?

You don't see people selling alcohol out of the back of a truck anymore do you?

 

[HisIsTheHand]

it was a joke FW