Then there is Chicago:
"Mighty Blackstone Rangers" brags the challenge scrawled across the walls and barred store windows of Chicago's South Side slums. A loosely organized army numbering perhaps 2,500, the Rangers hold their neighborhoods in thrall. So far this year, 36 Chicagoans under 21 have been murdered, most of them in juvenile warfare for which the Rangers get the blame. Recruiters even pull pre-teenagers into the ranks, and one triggerman of 14 said that he had carried out a killing for a $6 fee.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941603,00.html#ixzz1w7o8l8m6
“If a terrorist or a serial killer or a poison or a disease or a dangerous product was wounding or killing a teen in Chicago at the rate of one a day, we would demand something be done about it. Yet a teen in Chicago is shot or killed at the rate of one a day and it's shrugged off as just another gang war." --CJ Laity
http://www.chicagogangwar.com/
Like Trayvon Martin, Aliyah Shell should be embraced as a symbol in the struggle against street violence.
The public outcry over the murder of little Aliyah, the 6-year-old shot to death while sitting on her porch last month has yet to translate into wide public demonstrations against violence in her Little Village neighborhood.
I obtained a copy of an internal Chicago Police Officer Safety Alert, issued March 17, the day Aliyah was murdered, which warned officers that her killing might trigger more violence between the Latin Kings and the Two-Six.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/escalona/11713471-452/stop-gang-violence-that-killed-aliyah.html
The first story was from the mid 1960's. Why has the government not stopped this? Our President calls Chicago home.
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