Violence In Chicago

Violence and inequality are worse in Chicago then in many other major U.S. cities. The divide between race and income disparities is higher than the national average. Regardless of what author?s theory is used, this course has illustrated that this epidemic is unlikely to completely or even significantly resolve itself through peaceful intervention. However, suggested policies will target a restructure of societal hierarchies by suppressing private property and market forces and leveling class differences. Criminal justice, housing, working wages, medical care and education reforms may improve the overall landscape of Chicago.

Gun violence is a major problem in Chicago. There has been an estimate of nearly six hundred shooting victims in a matter of three months into the New Year. It is very sad how so many innocent people lose their lives due to such violence. Even the safest neighborhoods have become dangerous because of ignorant gang members who settle their problems with rival gangs by shooting each other. It is hard to feel safe in a community where you fear being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

With the leading number of gangs in the country, Los Angeles is thought of as the gang capital of the world. Employing gang suppression strategies that take distinct forms, from anti-gang injunctions to high rate of incarcerations, the City of Angels has failed to live up to its angelic name. Known instead for its demonic gang activity and police suppression efforts, Los Angeles has taken over media headlines as one of the most dangerous places to subsist. Representing a worrisome issue for residents, visitors, city government officials, as well as urban planners, gang violence has rapidly become a threat to public safety. Although current-day gang culture has eased off on the violence, it continues to be one of the greatest planning challenges

It has spread to the suburbs and small towns. Gun violence rates have increased in the last decade due to hatred and societal issues, and while shooters and victims both face many difficult obstacles, there are some solutions that the public and schools can enforce through awareness.

In the chicago essay,how weekends in chicago have gotten worse day by day.”Violence in Chicago over the weekend dropped sharply from a week before, but there were still 32 people shot in the city, seven of them fatally, including a 16-year-old boy.”In the previous weekends in chicago at least 63 people were shot and 8 were killed ,according to the police.It was the most violent weekend of the year except for the long Fourth of July holiday. So far in the year of 2017,at least 2,498 people have been shot in Chicago. That's down 2,821 this time last year, when violence hit levels not seen in two decades.

Most people can feel bad for the people of Baltimore with the furious nature from April 18, 2015 - May 3, 2015. It’s really easy to feel a lot of compassion for the people who’ve suffered from police brutality, poverty, and injustice; even if you’ve never experienced either. Burning and looting a CVS store would be a lot harder to understand and would hardly seem to have anything to do with protesting the actions of the Baltimore Police Department. President Obama decried the Baltimore riots as “senseless act of violence and destruction.” Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake also seemed disheartened. “We worked so hard to get a company like CVS to invest in this neighborhood,” she said, “this is the only place that so many people have to pick up their prescriptions.” Why would anyone burn down the only CVS in their neighborhood?

Chicago is a violent place to live. There is a very serious problem, in some areas of Chicago there is no respect for human life. Children are victims of gun violence for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. What can be done to have some social order in this place? Guns should be banned in Chicago because it had claimed too many lives of innocent people.

Davey begins the article with "CHICAGO — In a city wrestling with a rise in gun violence and turmoil in its police department, August seemed like the longest month." With this opening statement, she pulls the audience in with the ultimate question of "Why?" It entices the reader to go down further in the article to figure out what the turmoil is and why Chicago is in a time of desperation. As a reader myself I instantly began to wonder what was happening within the city. Fellow Americans need to understand what they are going through, and she wrote with a tone that would cause the readers to become concerned.

In 2016, 762 people lost their lives in Chicago which was the highest number than any other American city. Each death is a tragedy and a call for immediate action from those in authority. The issue has had sharp criticism and also support by many American and non-American

The riot in Chicago undermined the development of the labor movement because workers and union leaders could not raise the public opinion in support of their goals because the public viewed them as anarchists and terrorists. Newspapers were very right winged and were the voice of capitalism, rarely taking on a pity role toward the lower class and horrifically describing the events whilst giving heroic accounts of the government officials and police officers. In such a situation, it was easy for the government and the ruling elite to oppress the labor movement in the US and the American workers and unions had a long way to go to protect rights of workers and to change the attitude of Americans to the labor movement. James Green points out editorial

While California is known for its beautiful weather and Silicon Valley culture, it is also known for the high levels of gang violence endemic in the state’s inner cities. Read on to learn which cities in California are the safest and suffer from the least violent crime.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a medical correspondent of CNN and states that “ Thinking of this epidemic of preventable deaths as an infection that can be diagnosed, treated and perhaps cured, I feel more hopeful than I was in a long time.” (par. 10) When Gupta is talking about this he is perhaps hopeful that the number of shooting will decrease if we try and get people help and work on issues that have been passed. Dr. Gupta states "I think we should be developing outreach networks that look at high-risk situations and high-risk people through all kinds of methods.” (par. 12) Which is supposed to help put an end to how many shootings could happen in the next years to come. If we work on trying to fix the problem, then maybe there is hope for a change

In 2011 an almost mirror image of the gangsta rap scene reappeared in Chicago, Illinois. It was known as the Drill Scene, rappers created Drill Music. The music has the exact same material except more violent and explicit. Media very often has came for the music coming out of chicago as a threat to authority as they did for groups like N.W.A. in the 1990’s. The city of Chicago in the late 1990’s was divided into a few basic parts. A large majority of African Americans were living in very large apartment buildings, formerly known as the Robert Taylor Homes. The buildings were dominated by GD’s (Gangster Disciples) and the crime became so bad that the buildings hate to be demolished. This spread out the large quantity of gang members throughout chicago which then created the ability for smaller gangs to branch off. This made the situation much worse and did not work along with the plan that the government had in mind. Violence increased in the city of Chicago on a major scale after this happened. This set up for mindset to “get out of the hood” rapping was tried and succeeded. King Louie is credited as the king of drill, due to his success with this style of rapping. Around the 2011 era is was quite easy to put music together by yourself with a minimal amount of money put in. Random people began to become artists overnight with the same material as artists like king louie but

Initially, violence will never end. Most gunmen and conspiracies occur in only 6% of a Chicago’s population

Murder is a form of violence that does more harm than just destruction of property but leads to a loss of life in the process, and that makes it more severe than other forms of violence that may just end at injuries to people or destruction of property (Staples 2014). The sociological approach to issues of murder in the city highlights how the society or the environment increases the cases of death or reduces them in a case where there are few cases of murder and how the revelation would relatively contribute in mitigating the cases of violence (Pratt and Godsey 2003). The trend in deaths across different cities including Philadelphia is a motivation that results from how the city operations are set and are functioning, the level of security