Gregory Hood – The Unz Review Nov 2, 2021
Chicago is mostly known for bad things: organized crime, dirty slaughterhouses, and political corruption. The short-lived Starz series Boss was about corruption and starred Kelsey Grammar as Chicago’s mayor. After Baltimore and Detroit, Chicago may be the most notorious city in America.
However, Chicago does have a “Magnificent Mile” of upscale hotels, restaurants, and shops on Michigan Avenue. Like many American cities, it relies on the mile to attract tourists, who want to avoid the “bad” parts of town. What happens when every part of a city goes bad?
The “Magnificent Mile” now has empty stores that once hosted such attractions as Macy’s and Disney. The Mag Mile produced $150 million in sales taxes in 2019, but just $60 million in 2020, the year of the George Floyd riots. President of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association Rob Karr says that the “impression around the nation is that Chicago is not a very place safe to be.” Alderman Brian Hopkins says new businesses don’t want to open where shoplifting rings have been “operating with impunity downtown.”
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“With continued robberies in the area, Chicago police have issued a warning about suspects only described as young men, in their teens, robbing items on display,” reported the local CBS station. The “only” tells us all we need to know. “No one is in custody, and the robberies are still under investigation,” the story concluded.
Thieves are working systematically. Last week, a gang robbed three 7-Elevens in 30 minutes. In September, a black gang robbed a beauty store in the suburbs and employees treated it like a regular occurrence.
Other gang attacks within the city hit perfume stores and Walgreens. These are not romantic criminals stealing bread to feed their children. People who work downtown say they are afraid to leave the office at night.
What happens if police arrest suspects? Thanks to George Soros-financed Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, possibly nothing. She has told prosecutors not to bring felony theft charges if someone steals less than $1,000 worth of property. That means a ticket for a court appearance and no bail, so thieves go back to work right away. Miss Foxx also presided over the Jussie Smollett hoax. She dropped charges, even though he staged a hate crime against himself. Her supporters weren’t bothered; she easily won reelection in 2020.
The police can’t stop brazen shoplifters, but they did launch an investigation in 2019 because somebody put up stickers of the American Identity Movement. I’ve seen no report of arrests.
We can’t accuse the media of covering up crime. The Washington Post noted that Chicago is on pace for its highest homicide rate in 25 years. The Chicago Sun-Times publishes lurid descriptions almost daily of mass shootings. On October 19, there were fifteen shootings (two fatal). Two more were shot to death the next day. A story came out on October 22 about a woman who heard about a shooting in her neighborhood, and then found out the victim was her brother. Fox News has a “Chicago’s Crime Wave” section. In late September, one victim was an eight-year-old boy. Voters don’t seem to care, at least not enough to vote out Miss Foxx or support a different party.
In April last year, we wrote about “The Great Replacement” in Chicago. From 1910 to 2020, the city went from almost entirely white to just about one-third white. In 2016, murders soared after a white police officer shot a black teenager, and the problem has only gotten worse. Curiously, other violent crimes have declined over the last two decades (barring a short-lived spike around 2016), but homicides keep going up .
Kim Foxx can be unintentional funny. Earlier this month, the “body snatchers faction of the Four Corner Hustlers” used home-converted automatic weapons to attack the “Jack Boys faction.” Three men were shot, one died, and the “Jack Boys” refused to leave their hideout, prompting a standoff with the SWAT team. Kim Foxx didn’t bring charges. Her office explained this was, in part, because the shootout was “mutual combat” and therefore possibly not a criminal matter. Even far-left black mayor Lori Lightfoot thought that was too much, though the state’s attorney and the mayor reportedly met to talk out their differences — with the helpful mediation of Jesse Jackson. In the case of a young man stabbed to death, Miss Foxx again brought no charges, in part because she called it another case of “mutual combat.”
It’s not surprising that affluent shoppers want to stay away. Unfortunately, Chicago is not alone.
In California, a 2014 law lowered penalties for theft under $950. In San Francisco, the result has been a wave of astonishingly brazen shoplifting. The city’s district attorney is Chesa Boudin, who won office in 2019 with help from George Soros. Car break-ins, gun crimes, and homicides are all up — though robberies are down.
Earlier this year, about 40 percent of residents said they planned to leave the city. Some businesses already have. Walgreens is closing several locations. Some data show that theft and shoplifting were declining in some of these locations. However, the head of the California Retailers Association says most robberies aren’t reported. The reason? Nothing would happen if they were. Criminals don’t fear consequences.
So we get this:
This just happened at the @Walgreens on Gough & Fell Streets in San Francisco. #NoConsequences @chesaboudin pic.twitter.com/uSbnTQQk4J
— Lyanne Melendez (@LyanneMelendez) June 14, 2021
This week @Walgreens closed five more stores in the #SanFrancisco area. That makes twenty-two stores the retail-pharmacy giant has shuttered in the Bay area over the last five years, always citing the same reason: out-of-control shoplifting. #crime pic.twitter.com/MmtfrxJPhh
— James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) October 15, 2021
5 more Walgreens in San Francisco are closing as a result of skyrocketing shoplifting.
Police can only take action in SF if the theft exceeds $950, otherwise private citizens need to act.
Now, community members are paying the price.https://t.co/3VDr8je5ER pic.twitter.com/a0twk87KN1
— America Rising (@AmericaRising) October 15, 2021
Another city with a George Soros-supported prosecutor is Philadelphia. District Attorney Larry Krasner has presided over increasing crime since he was elected in 2017: homicide, carjackings, and theft. Mr. Krasner has also discouraged prosecutions of shoplifting. He easily won the Democratic primary (and thus, the election) in May 2021.
On October 13, a black man raped a woman on public transportation. Bystanders merely watched, some reportedly filming the crime. The suspect is Fiston Ngoy, who came to the United States on a student visa that expired in 2015. He should have been deported then. Instead, he remained in the country and built up an arrest record including for sexual abuse. A judge ruled that wasn’t a serious enough crime to merit deportation.
It might not have mattered anyway. Philadelphia is “sanctuary city” for illegals, so it does not cooperate with ICE. Mayor Jim Kenney
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Soon we’ll all be doing it. Or perish.
The only hope is the military topples this illegitimate government. ( But the communist woke elements would need to be neutralized). Otherwise; more rigged elections, dangerous, deadly “vaccines” being mandated, no border…collapse.
If you’re white, get out, and torch the place on your way.
BUSH; BIDEN; TRUMP ARE WONDERFUL
DESTROYERS OF USA ! MY RESPECT !
AND TRUDEAU OF CANADA
AND MERKILL OF GERMANY
AND MACRON OF FRANCE
AND JOHNSON OF BRITAIN
rememeber the words of nutenyahu
” today palestine, tomorrow america “
“Voters don’t seem to care, at least not enough to vote out Miss Foxx or support a different party.”
That’s because the voters are of the Dindu Nuffins” tribe whose fellow members are burning and looting the city to the ground. They don’t have the brain volume to figure it out.
Walgreens is pulling out their stores and moving. Yo mang, dat beez raziss.
Krasner is a slimy Jew who uses the “Dindu” as bull dogs to bring down and destroy the once prosperous white society.
Pittsburgh just elected their first simian mayor. I give the city a year after he is sworn in before the city falls through into a complete shit hole. There is already signs of blight.
I have a solution: put three of those animals to a cell. Give one a bucket of KFC, another a bag of rock cocaine, and the third a claw hammer: let them work it out.
Whether it’s Chicago or Durban or Haiti you always get the same result when blacks are in charge or become a majority in a once civilised society. Always!
Listen to G L Rockwell in 1967 and ignore all these cynical Yid journalists.
Hasn’t Biden been giving away lots and lots of free money lately?
America is now able to owe up to 39 trillion. I suppose it means that lots of others now have the money to purchase all this stolen loot.
If security gave chase the blacks wouldn’t get very far as their trousers would end up below their knees.
It’s all very sick.
@ HANS SCOTT
forget american + most other militar .
like in state the generals + officers are
mostly freemasons + follow orders of
the jews . washington DC is totaly infected
by jews + their slaves . they are like termites !
Wow,
Did you see that city skyline !
Not many gardens, All i can say is,
Plenty of opportunity for growing lettuce & carrots in window boxes & hanging baskets there .
Don’t worry War !
The Apes are too bust stealing trinkets to bother about robbing homes for food.
🙂
Glenn Ashton ‘VIZ top tip’
piss in the watering can each night, you’ll get three crops a year instead of ‘war’s’ two !
@ Antiseptic
That is what you are supposed to think. The people who groom, select and appoint these puppets are laughing their heads off at you. If you want to change things you will have to set your sights much higher.
What did you expect to happen? If a Caucasian created civilization is stupid/insane enough to import millions of simian blacks & non-white scum into its nation via slavery or immigration, then it will inevitably implode & disintegrate into subhuman criminal chaos & ape anarchy. That’s all you need to know. But if you haven’t figured it out yet, just watch the movies ‘Naked Prey’ (1965) & ‘Planet of the Apes’ (1968) to see your future..
But who created this nightmare? Sure, the Jews pushed the button. But who gave them the button in the first place? And who ensures that they keep it? Step forward Joe Sixpack and Sally Soccermom.
The enablers are the real problem.
KFC eating monkeys no IQ no job no class just enough money to eat KFC through their ill gotten gains.
@Anonymous…White Christians….Nero was right–Christians to the lions.
& all those serving themselves, are White Privileged Supremacists very heavily suntanned ??
Hey ‘Hans’?
Spend 6 minutes to further your general fund of knowledge (or the lack thereof, apparently).
‘A call to the militia. Why America is dead.’ AKA; ‘No One Is Coming To Save You’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxdN7GnsGE
I visited SanFran in 2005. Expecting to explore a glamorous city straight out of “Vertigo”, what I found was a dark and soulless concrete jungle. At the metro stations, I couldn’t pull a few coins out of my jacket without getting instantly harassed by the homeless / “veterans” / whoever. In the end, I headed back to my hotel (of the “no, we don’t want to see you; just drop your key in a box on your way out” variety) for the evening.
Needless to say – if I never go back, that’s too soon!
In response to: Hans Scott on November 10, 2021 at 9:12 am
Hans, you are absolutely correct. But it needs to done without bloodshed, if at all possible. And that is what is going on right now behind the scene. Naysayers will be in denial and even say the opposite. The “swamp” is slowly but steadily drained. Arrest are already in progress and many more to follow.
“Blacks are invariably the most violent, least intelligent, most destructive, least productive, most narcissistic, and least admirable group in any western society.” – Tobias Langdon
I have to agree wholeheartedly with the statement above. My direct experiences in life have proven it to be irrefutably true.
Any society that allows more than a scant few blacks, or ANY really, into their city, state, region,or country is setting themselves up for misery and very bad things to happen. Verifiable reports consistently show blacks in the Jewnited States are over 800%, that’s EIGHT HUNDRED PERCENT, more likely than whites to commit crimes of violence.
It’s a shame, really. I used to enjoy hanging out in Chicago a couple decades ago. I used to shag a hot woman there who was a professional actress and was down to satisfy any carnal desire I may have had and we would go romping about the city. Good times. But places like Chicago, Shitcago now, and cities on the west coast are now getting what they f***ing deserve these days by the idiots there supporting wildly deranged “progressive” policies and tolerance for intolerable behavior from feral street apes.
Those shameless niggers in that store in the video should have been snatched at the door and slaughtered on the sidewalk, their brainless heads then shoved onto pikes and displayed as an example of what happens to savages polluting and menacing society.
@ PAUL RELGNE
NO ! IN EVERY NATION ARE 50%
TRAITORS TO BE KILLED !
@Dayne — you did not see NOTHING in San Francisco. When my wife and I went to the Mexican consulate to apply for a temporary visa — to get a permanent temporary visa in Mexico no later than six months hence (plenty of time, plan ahead!) — we saw NOTHING. The only incarnate soul without a facial diaper I saw (other than myself, looking into a shiny, mirror-like shop window) was a clearly mentally disturbed vagabond roaming the streets alone, muttering to himself. My wife then had three major operations, two Moderna injections, and we made it across the border with only five days remaining!
Chicago has long had its spots of no-go, as has Philadelphia. Not San Francisco. Not until this Era of COVID. I understand Max Igan of Australia has joined the parade to Mexico — following the pattern of Simon Black and Henry Makow! I highly recommend this country as a go-to.