Tag: crime
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Why is a local crime being treated as a federal crime?
DePape allegedly broke into Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s house. He allegedly assaulted Paul Pelosi, Nancy’s husband. How did this get elevated to attempted kidnapping? He could not attempt to kidnap Nancy Pelosi because she wasn’t home. If DePape is as nutty as he’s been portrayed and if he was advised of […]
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The great unravelling of Chicago
An excerpt of a conversation between two Chicagoans on the decline and fall of a once great city. They talk about some of the reasons I left in 2020. I’ll say it again… Chicago and Illinois left me long before I left them. The city of Chicago made me who I am. When I was […]
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Beyond Meat’s COO gets taste of human flesh
If he eats his own dog food, so to speak, maybe he was severely malnourished to the point where he needed to get a chunk of real animal flesh. I feel for the poor soul who had his nose chewed. A food company executive was arrested on a pair of charges after reportedly biting a […]
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LA thieves have easy pickings on trains
This is crazy out of control. The video and pictures posted on Twitter by photojournalist John Schreiber show the extent of loss. Looks like most of it is from Amazon. This is nuts. Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages […]
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Crime in Cook County Illinois is out of control
Take a look at the video in the tweet below. In the video, what appears to be a bunch of African-American kids stealing merchandise from a Louis Vuitton store at the Northbrook Court shopping mall in Northbrook, Illinois. Northbrook is a safe and quiet suburb in Chicago’s North Shore. I’m glad I moved. I used […]
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When we stop calling it “gun violence” maybe we’ll get serious about shootings
It’s an old argument but still a valid one. Guns don’t shoot all by themselves. They still require a human being to pull the trigger in some form or fashion. Referring to shooting deaths as “gun violence” removes responsibility from the people committing the acts of violence. Until we come to terms with this reality […]