When crooks no longer fear the cops
President Obama’s hometown of Chicago has a problem: a declining clearance rate for violent crime has lead to an increase in crimes such as robbery and murder, which is further fed by declining morale in an underfunded, undermanned police department. The situation is so bad, even the cops themselves are being gunned down in the streets:
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Alana Goodman from Newsbusters files this disturbing report:
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Very intriguing. And deeply disturbing, if accurate.