104 people shot, 14 dead over weekend in Chicago
Source: The Hill
More than 100 people were injured by gun violence in Chicago over the Fathers' Day weekend, marking the most violent weekend in the city so far this year.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that a total of 104 people were injured by gunfire between Friday and Monday, with several shootings occurring early Monday morning. At least 14 people were killed.
“Bullets don’t just tear apart the things they strike,” Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said at a press conference on Sunday addressing the shootings. “Bullets also tear apart families. Bullets destroy neighborhoods and they ruin any sense of safety in a community.
Good men throughout this city should be celebrating with their families on a beautiful day, but instead, a number of Chicagoans will be spending Father’s Day grieving the loss of their children,” he added, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/503877-104-people-shot-12-dead-over-weekend-in-chicago
The violence occurred all across the city and involved numerous seemingly random shootings, several of which killed children. The youngest slain was a 3-year-old who was exiting a barbershop with his father at the time.
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Poverty often leads to violence.
How Redlining Segregated Chicago, and America
Ever since I heard tell of it, I’ve been eagerly awaiting a study by three members of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: “The Effects of the 1930s HOLC ‘Redlining’ Maps.”
It might sound like an arcane subject, but it’s gotten a surprising amount of attention in the popular press over the last few years (driven in large part by the attention of The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates), and something I’ve turned my attention to a few times. In short, in the 1930s, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation attempted to figure out the creditworthiness of properties within wide swaths of American cities. Given the period, its metrics for creditworthiness were heavily based on the racial composition of neighborhoods—white flight meant that the presence of non-whites, particularly African Americans, brought the specter of housing-value collapse—and for a lot of reasons, these calculations were grounded in the work of Chicago economists and real estate professionals.
Not long ago, a team of academics digitized many of these maps. I spoke to one of the researchers involved, Virginia Tech’s LaDale Winling, who called them the “Rosetta stone” of American cities. It’s shocking how much of major cities were given D grades, the lowest possible credit-risk score, and outlined in red (hence, it’s believed, the origin of the term “redlining"
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Basically, the federal government determined that much of the nation’s great cities were poor investments. But there’s some debate about what that meant. Did it influence private lending? Was redlining a symptom of racial fears that drove segregation, or did it play a role in driving segregation? (It’s obviously not just an either-or question.)
https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/August-2017/How-Redlining-Segregated-Chicago-and-America/
Some of the posters here remind me of right wingers who deflect from racism by bringing up crime in Chicago. They could be right wingers. Someone on social media said that DU is trollwerks and cavers pay a lot attention to this board.
Or just maintain the pretense of sincerity-- to better validate your most consistent narrative in these particularly-picked instances (it's simply far too hard not miss the only instances when you allege concern).
I'm guessing the second one... as the first option seems far too inconvenient to that narrative, and would also require genuine concern.
But I'm always open to being surprised. 
