According to Chicago's violence reduction dashboard, the Austin community has been victimized to more than 180 shootings so far this year. That is nearly one shooting a day. Superintendent Brown says much of the violence is being fueled by two things: revenge and silence.
Does the Supt actually believe that the thugs doin the shootin are listening to him. Or that they can actually process what he is saying? This is so silly it’s sad.
Rick
4 years ago
Ok now we have the police superintendent using the words of a preacher. This proves that it comes down to morality, not guns.
Buford T Pusser
4 years ago
Just when I think that Downtown Dummy Brown has said something really dumb, he never fails to trump his last statement with something so stupid as to be unbelievable. His latest “forgive your enemies” comments might work with folks who regularly attend church, but members of his target audience probably haven’t seen the inside of a church in decades, if they ever had been in a church at any time in their lives. Gunning down an enemy gives the murderer street cred in their circle of criminal friends and acquaintances. It gives them a feeling of power which far out… Read more »
Does the Supt actually believe that the thugs doin the shootin are listening to him. Or that they can actually process what he is saying? This is so silly it’s sad.
Ok now we have the police superintendent using the words of a preacher. This proves that it comes down to morality, not guns.
Just when I think that Downtown Dummy Brown has said something really dumb, he never fails to trump his last statement with something so stupid as to be unbelievable. His latest “forgive your enemies” comments might work with folks who regularly attend church, but members of his target audience probably haven’t seen the inside of a church in decades, if they ever had been in a church at any time in their lives. Gunning down an enemy gives the murderer street cred in their circle of criminal friends and acquaintances. It gives them a feeling of power which far out… Read more »