Cops say masked teens with a thirst for violence and joyrides are terrorizing the city. An examination of arrests reveals a narrative built on shoddy data and anecdotal evidence.
The reader is a commie SJW anti American joke. They need to go away.
nixit
5 years ago
The author’s resume includes stints at In These Times and Jacobin. All that’s missing is a stint at The Daily Worker.
nixit
5 years ago
Notice the Reader didn’t deny there’s a carjacking spike, which is really the most important takeaway from the article. Whether they’re 15 or 25, I still had a gun pointed at me and my car is still gone.
Lana
5 years ago
This type of nonsense is why America is in the shape it is in today, on the verge of Communism. The reason why the majority of school boards promote any wako agenda vs teaching the basics, reading, writing, science, math.
Bad is good.
Take your psychology and dump it off a cliff! Time to get children back in school!
Time for School children, starting in kindergarten, to be taught the 10 commandments!
Respect for Life, and dumping dangerous, faux teachings of 1619 and Critical race.
Heyjude
5 years ago
According to liberals, systemic racism and/or white supremacy is to blame. What else could it possibly be?
Streeterville
5 years ago
But for the fact that juvenile carjackers in Chicago, if caught, aren’t charged unless they also killed someone during said carjacking. That’s City Hall/Foxx/CPD policy. The average “non-violent” (meaning no shots-fired during carjacking event) juvenile carjacker is near-immediately released to custody of their parent/guardian, and no arrest is logged. No record, no carjacking occurred, except for an insurance-claim filed by unfortunate car-owner. Now Reader can claim that “juveniles aren’t carjackers”, relying on manipulated statistics that reflect minimized crime stats and uncharged offenders. Shame on you, Chicago Reader, for perpetuating these SJW narratives. Juvenile carjackers, if caught, are usually remanded to… Read more »
mmack
5 years ago
Even the commenters at the Chicago Reader don’t believe the spin in the linked article.
The reader is a commie SJW anti American joke. They need to go away.
The author’s resume includes stints at In These Times and Jacobin. All that’s missing is a stint at The Daily Worker.
Notice the Reader didn’t deny there’s a carjacking spike, which is really the most important takeaway from the article. Whether they’re 15 or 25, I still had a gun pointed at me and my car is still gone.
This type of nonsense is why America is in the shape it is in today, on the verge of Communism. The reason why the majority of school boards promote any wako agenda vs teaching the basics, reading, writing, science, math.
Bad is good.
Take your psychology and dump it off a cliff! Time to get children back in school!
Time for School children, starting in kindergarten, to be taught the 10 commandments!
Respect for Life, and dumping dangerous, faux teachings of 1619 and Critical race.
According to liberals, systemic racism and/or white supremacy is to blame. What else could it possibly be?
But for the fact that juvenile carjackers in Chicago, if caught, aren’t charged unless they also killed someone during said carjacking. That’s City Hall/Foxx/CPD policy. The average “non-violent” (meaning no shots-fired during carjacking event) juvenile carjacker is near-immediately released to custody of their parent/guardian, and no arrest is logged. No record, no carjacking occurred, except for an insurance-claim filed by unfortunate car-owner. Now Reader can claim that “juveniles aren’t carjackers”, relying on manipulated statistics that reflect minimized crime stats and uncharged offenders. Shame on you, Chicago Reader, for perpetuating these SJW narratives. Juvenile carjackers, if caught, are usually remanded to… Read more »
Even the commenters at the Chicago Reader don’t believe the spin in the linked article.