- Gangbangers in Chicago: What makes them tick, what are they thinking?
CBS 2’s Walter Jacobson sat down with gang members in Chicago’s troubled Englewood neighborhood to try to find some answers.
Some of the responses he received were not encouraging.
“There’s no solution to the violence,” one gang member tells him. “Killing, killing is the solution.”
Time to pull out of the hood and let them sort it out themselves. We can declare a truce every other day to clean up the bodies. And that's if we're feeling generous:
- The gang members also said they are at war with the Chicago Police Department.
“The police hate us,” a young man said. “Every time they ride past us, they shoot us down and do all that. Do what you want to do, I don’t care about you all, keep riding. Who are you all? We’re not scare of you all. I’ll fight you too. Take that badge off.”
But he says the police cannot catch them or exact any consequences.
Why pour good money down a rat hole that doesn't want a police presence as it is? We'd give it two weeks, a month tops before it sorted itself out into something the Department could manage again.
It would certainly be an interesting month at the CompStat meetings.