The gang crisis: Emanuel owns it now

The gang crisis: Emanuel owns it now


Ya think? This morning on our local news program, the top cop was ask the "difference between strategies employed in New York versus Chicago." His answer was similar to exactly what I've been writing about on this little blog post. In a nutshell, he basically said (paraphrasing here) stop treating these douche-bags like little kids, and slap the hell out of them with stiffer punishments. He gave a couple of great examples such as the loser that got popped with not one, but three separate charges of felony possession of an unregistered firearm. What did the douche-bag get for each offense? Three separate "Probation" slaps on the wrist. Remember the football player that shot himself in the leg at a New York nightclub? He got two years. Go figure. A terrorist walks free on probation three times, and an idiot stuffing a gun in sweatpants of all things, gets two years.

What a difference a State makes. So I ask our do nothing lawmakers one more time. Fix the fucking sentencing laws in this State! A criminal with an unregistered, illegally obtained firearm does not deserve a probation sentence. If you lawmakers do anything for the residents of this State, change the sentencing guidelines, and start handing out some prison time to these douche-bags. If a football player is that damn dumb to put a gun in his sweatpants, then shoot himself in the leg, and gets slapped with two years in prison. Don't you think we should be handing out a minimum of  ten years for real criminals? Oh, I'm sorry. I meant terrorist.