What, please tell me about how ‘Murica’s failed drug laws have fueled Chicago’s homicide and gang issues – PB/TK
How Mexican Cartels Prey on Chicago’s Chaos – By Jeremy Kryt / July 29 2017
It’s summertime on the South Side of Chicago, and the sirens never seem to stop. In neighborhoods with names like Little Village, Back of the Yards, and Dolton, squad cars and ambulances scream day and night past shuttered storefronts and boarded-up houses.
Welcome to the one of the most violent cities in America.
There were 764 homicides here in 2016, according to a recent study by the University of Chicago Crime Lab. That’s a jump of more than 50 percent from the previous year, with most of them occurring in poor “ghetto” communities on the South and West Sides.
All that killing is fueled, at least in part, by the city’s booming drug trade.
Native poet Carl Sandburg once dubbed his home town “Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler.” Add one of the country’s busiest airports and a cluster of major highway arteries to all those railroads and you get what DEA agent Mark Giuffre, of the Chicago Field Division, calls a “logistical hub” for narcotics trafficking.
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