Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumThe Shock of Ordinary Gun Violence
The Chicago Police Department, desperate to reduce gun violence by street gangs, authorized this unusual tool three years ago and has been using it to track and caution the most likely offenders.
It is a remarkable state of affairs that local governments must resort to such an approach to deal with the reality of gun mayhem. Yet it is sadly understandable, too, as a timid Congress cowed by the gun lobby fails to enact stronger gun-control laws for a nation increasingly flooded with high-powered weapons.
As a rule, a public anesthetized by gun abuse tends to pay attention to the ubiquity of guns in this country when massacres seize the headlines, like the San Bernardino terrorist attack that left 14 dead, or the shooting of 20 schoolchildren in Connecticut. But the full problem is far more widespread, deadly and almost routine, according to a survey by a team of reporters from The Times reviewing a year of these multiple shootings.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/opinion/the-shock-of-ordinary-gun-violence.html
Straw Man
(6,760 posts)Nice screed, which complete sidesteps the thrust of the study it references. From the linked study:
Sounds like profiling to me.
DonP
(6,185 posts)Go to HeyJackass.com
Not only the numbers, neighborhoods and race of shooter and shootee, but where physically they got shot, including those that wound up shooting themselves (selfies) and in the junk or ass.
http://heyjackass.com/
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)In a city of 2.7 million people, about 1,400 are responsible for much of the violence, Mr. Johnson said, and all of them are on what the department calls its Strategic Subject List.
So far this year, more than 70 percent of the people who have been shot in Chicago were on the list, according to the police, as were more than 80 percent of those arrested in connection with shootings.
Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force Finds APRIL 13, 2016In a broad drug and gang raid carried out last week amid a disturbing uptick this year in shootings and murders, the Police Department said 117 of the 140 people arrested were on the list.
We are targeting the correct individuals, Mr. Johnson said. We just need our judicial partners and our state legislators to hold these people accountable.
And there is your solution.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)When you start analyzing human behavior, the bad behavior is easier to predict.