SENATOR MARK KIRK: My top priority is to arrest the Gangster Disciples gang, which is 18,000 people. I would like to do a mass pickup of them and put 'em all in the Thomson Correctional facility.

 

MARTIN: But the reactions of other Chicago officials have been decidedly mixed from cool to furious, including Illinois Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush, who said in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times - and I'm quoting here - he called it an upper-middle-class, elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about, unquote. We wanted to get more perspective about this plan so we've called Congressman Danny Davis. He's a Democrat representing the seventh district in Illinois - that's in Chicago. Former federal prosecutor Ronald Safer led a crackdown against leaders in Chicago's Gangster Disciples in the 1990s. He is now managing partner at the law firm Schiff Hardin. Also with us is Rob Wildeboer, he's the crime and legal affairs reporter for member station WBEZ Chicago. Welcome to you all. Thank you all so much for joining us.

 

Pick 'Em Up, Lock 'Em Up: Getting Tough On Gangs : NPR

Tell us what you really think!? Wow!

 

Thoughts?

Arrest them all. Yeah, that'll fix the problem. :lol:

Build more jails. Think of the boom in license plate manufacturing.

Get the gang classified as a terrorist organization and let the arrests begin. You throw that word "terror" out there and the feds won't even have to bother making a case on any of them.

Arm the people of Chicago and let them shoot back...

Arm the people of Chicago and let them shoot back...

I like that one.

Arm the people of Chicago and let them shoot back...

 

What makes you think that the people in Chicago who want to be armed against gangsters aren't armed? The law? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Concealed carry has been approved for Illinois and Chicago recently.. Be a while before implemented but it's going to happen.

Concealed carry has been approved for Illinois and Chicago recently.. Be a while before implemented but it's going to happen.

related link. BREAKING: Illinois Attorney General Tries to Delay CCW Bill Another Month

They were featured on one of the Gangland episodes. Pretty nasty group.

Build more jails. Think of the boom in license plate manufacturing.

 

No thanks. CCA and the prison-industrial complex already wield enough of an overreaching influence on our elected "leaders." Plus, the concept of a "free society" tends to lose a little bit in translation if we're looking for every excuse we can find to lock people up (which we already do at an alarming rate).

No thanks. CCA and the prison-industrial complex already wield enough of an overreaching influence on our elected "leaders." Plus, the concept of a "free society" tends to lose a little bit in translation if we're looking for every excuse we can find to lock people up (which we already do at an alarming rate).

 

So what do you suggest we do with all the law abiding gang bangers?

So what do you suggest we do with all the law abiding gang bangers?

 

Maybe the "job creators" could invest in our communities the way good American corporate citizens used to.

Maybe the "job creators" could invest in our communities the way good American corporate citizens used to.

 

They don't want to work, if they did they wouldn't be gang bangers in the first place....