Here is how it would work – those who experience what they feel is a "hate incident" can call 311, use city's 311 the mobile app, or report it online. "We want to make reporting as easy as possible, ensuring that victims and witnesses have a direct line to share their experiences 24/7 and 365 days a year," Ald. Debra Silverstein said.
Hate crimes are prosecuted if it pertains to a certain group but black on black crime which is a specific race is just considered crime and if caught rarely prosecuted.
Waggs
2 years ago
If it’s not a crime, why report anything? Call your neighbor out for being a hateful jackass, and leave the government out of it.
The slow creep towards totalitarianism continues…. Anyone else feel a little 1935 Germany-ish?
Very creepy. Who decides what’s hate? You already have folks in press labeling folks protesting migrants in Brighton Park as xenophobes for example? Is that a “hate incident”?
Egggsactly.
Dennis Miller said in one of his Rants (and I’m paraphrasing)… „as soon as you make people have to hide what they say, or say things only in dark corners, you have increased the problem. I want horrible people to say their thoughts out loud. Then I know who and where they are and I can point and laugh at them.” Free speech is the sanitizing sunshine of a society, which comes with the unpleasant consequence of sometimes having to hear „mean words”. **vapors… faints**
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Hate crimes are prosecuted if it pertains to a certain group but black on black crime which is a specific race is just considered crime and if caught rarely prosecuted.
If it’s not a crime, why report anything? Call your neighbor out for being a hateful jackass, and leave the government out of it.
The slow creep towards totalitarianism continues…. Anyone else feel a little 1935 Germany-ish?
Very creepy. Who decides what’s hate? You already have folks in press labeling folks protesting migrants in Brighton Park as xenophobes for example? Is that a “hate incident”?
The demand for hate crimes far exceeds the supply.
Egggsactly.
Dennis Miller said in one of his Rants (and I’m paraphrasing)… „as soon as you make people have to hide what they say, or say things only in dark corners, you have increased the problem. I want horrible people to say their thoughts out loud. Then I know who and where they are and I can point and laugh at them.” Free speech is the sanitizing sunshine of a society, which comes with the unpleasant consequence of sometimes having to hear „mean words”. **vapors… faints**
I also just reread the article and realized that the alderhuman is Debra Silverstein. COME THE *F* ON! Do you know any history, Deb?!?