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Chicago Kicks Off Holiday Season By Unveiling Festive Red And Green Crime-Scene Tape

Residents of the Windy City noticed that it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas these days, as the Chicago Police Department kicked off the holiday season by unveiling festive red and green crime scene tape.

The tell-tale yuletide sign began popping up around town early this year, as the police couldn't wait until after Thanksgiving to start cordoning off scenes of horrific murders and blood-stained street corners with tape that was noticeably more decorative and Christmas-y.

"It brings a little bit of joy and childlike nostalgia to every deadly shooting," said Chicago Police Department spokesman Sergeant Ray Chapman. "People spend all year looking forward to the holidays, so it only makes sense to usher in the season with our festive Christmas-themed crime scene tape. It may read, ‘Police Line — Do Not Cross' in a literal sense, but what it really means is, ‘Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas!'"

Local gang members likewise expressed warm and fuzzy feelings with each violent crime they commit. "Shooting up neighborhoods and killing people is different this time of year," said Jose Marquez, spokesgangster for the Latin Kings street gang. "When you see that Christmas crime scene tape go up, you know every bullet was like a heartfelt gift given to someone special. It's like we're Santa, and instead of Christmas cheer, we're spreading death, yo."

At publishing time, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced that the city would jump on the festive bandwagon by donating a new toy to Toys for Tots for every murder in the month of December.

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ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 says

LOL, yeah, we know, someone with a bullet thru the heart and run over by a truck with the kung flu in their system is counted as a kung flu death, right?

You are suggesting other causes of death were misclassified as Covid. The data says you are wrong. According to the death certificate totals, Covid deaths during 2020 were, if anything, undercounted.

Here in the table are US death numbers for the top ten causes of death for six years ending in 2020. Notice how there are 20% more deaths in 2020 than the average of the previous five years? Doing the math, that's 500,000 excess deaths in 2020.

Notice how, in 2020, 345,000 of those 500,000 excess deaths are classified as Covid? Notice how almost all causes of death rose in 2020, including cancer & heart disease?

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

If there's any validity to the claim that lots of deaths have been mis-classified as Covid, why did almost all causes of death increase in 2020? Wouldn't mis-classification produce a reduction in those other causes? The evidence says mis-classification is a red herring.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues Now tell us how many died from the flu

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 Your famous reading comprehension skills strike again🤣😂

It's in the table, dude!!

And, as the death certificates say, out of 550,000 excess deaths, 345,000 deaths in 2020 were classified as Covid. Can you identify any year in the last 60 with 100,000 flu deaths?? I didn't think so.

JSul3 · 70-79

Most of the illegal guns recovered in Chicago originate from outside Illinois, primarily from neighboring states with less restrictive gun laws, such as Indiana, along with others like Mississippi, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Origin of Crime Guns in Chicago
Out-of-State Sources: Approximately 60% of the crime guns seized by Chicago Police are traced back to original purchases made outside of Illinois. These are often acquired through straw purchases (where someone legally buys a gun for someone who cannot) and then trafficked into the city.

Top Out-of-State Sources:
The primary out-of-state source is Indiana, accounting for about 21% of recovered guns in one report. Other significant source states form what is sometimes referred to as the "Iron Pipeline" or "Dixie Pipeline" and include:
Indiana
Mississippi
Wisconsin
Kentucky
Missouri

In-State Sources:
The remaining 40% of illegal firearms originate from within Illinois, with many coming from licensed dealers in suburban Cook County, just outside Chicago city limits.

Chicago itself has strict gun ordinances and no licensed gun retailers within city limits.

The difference in gun laws between Illinois and its neighboring states creates a significant challenge for law enforcement, as traffickers exploit these discrepancies to supply Chicago's black market.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@JSul3 As I said before, the problem would be solved by implementing the same gun laws nationwide as exist in Illinois. But they don't want to do that.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ItsMeMorgue LOL, you left-wing nut-job marxists do not even enforce the over 13,000 Federal, State, and local gun laws on the books now so you want to create more, eh.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@sunsporter1649 Keep lying, grandpa.

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 It's SAD that you get all your "facts" from cartoons and satire sites.

Meanwhile, firearms have been the leading cause of death for US children and teens since 2020, representing 19% of all deaths for children 18 years and younger in 2021.

America's gun homicides in perspective 2020

homicide rate vs OECD

per capita gun deaths by state red vs blue

Gun homicide rates in our 300 most populous cities; separated into red vs blue states

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/cities-in-blue-states-experiencing-larger-declines-in-gun-violence-in-2023/

WOW! Cities in blue states tend to be safer!! Proving that gun safety laws work!!

@ItsMeMorgue

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sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues LOL, yeah, we know, someone with a bullet thru the heart and run over by a truck with the kung flu in their system is counted as a kung flu death, right? Anyone can play with numbers to get any result they want, such as 2+2=5

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@sunsporter1649 I'm sorry, are you trying to win a bet on how many lies you can cram into a single comment?

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@ItsMeMorgue He has learned that from his king

fanuc2013 · 51-55, F

LOL! You should put together a routine and go on the road! You could make a lot of money!!

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@fanuc2013 I'd like to see him take that act to anywhere outside of the BS Bibble Babble Bible Belt.

ron122 · 41-45, M

Chicago's strict gun laws aren't working very well. That place is a hellhole just like most democrat run cities.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

If you really cared about all the shootings, you'd be in favor of stricter gun control.

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sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ItsMeMorgue

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@ron122

And I'm not surprised you came up with a ridiculous excuse like that.

Like what? The fact that the law is inconsistent from one state to the next, and sometimes even from one county to the next? Just say you don't want to solve the problem.
@sunsporter1649 I knew you'd come up with something so drastically oversimplified as to constitute a lie.

graphite · 61-69, M

Remember, Trump is a bad guy for trying to turn Chicago into a safe city instead of leaving it as the dangerous, murderous hellhole that it is.

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