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(CHICAGO) — Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley met today with several police, school officials, reverends, social workers, and activists.
Explaining the need for this summit, Mayor Daley said, “It concerns all of us, antamarrahng … again havacupa ministers and other people … just sit around an sez, ‘I-I-Is there any other solutions that we cuh we’ve lost?’”(1)
Many community leaders say they are dissatisfied with the Daley Administrations previous efforts to stomp out violence, including instituting a curfew, then making the curfew earlier when it was determined that kids routinely ignore curfews, asking parents to be responsible parents, asking them again and this time saying “please,” banning all guns within the city, achieving 100% enforcement of city gun laws by every available honest and competent police officer,(2) and asking for more and stiffer anti-gun laws.
Police officials interviewed before the summit said they would push for more police, more and bigger equipment, and an increase in salaries and benefits. The officers praised new Police Superintendent Jody Weis for planning a massive SWAT invasion into “trouble areas,” positioning rooftop snipers on every block, covering the sky with police helicopters, and knocking on doors wearing full body armor and carrying really huge assault rifles.
School officials disagreed with the police representatives, saying that a three- or fourfold increase in education funds, some of it earmarked for a new anti-violence curriculum, is necessary to get rid of violence in the city. Social workers echoed the school officials’ opinion, only replace “education” with “social services” and “curriculum” with “program.”
As the only groups not directly tied to the government, the activists and the holy reverends agreed that the most important thing was to make speeches about how the government should forcibly take the possessions of rich people and distribute them to the economically disadvantaged. The groups disagreed on two issues: whether religious leaders should be exempt from asset limits and whether daily baths should be mandatory.
For his part, Daley is reportedly intent on reducing the availability of guns in a city in which guns are legally not available. Rumor has it that Daley intends a police takeover of neighboring suburbs and Northwestern Indiana.
(1) This is an early transcript of Mayor Daley’s speech and has not yet been edited for clarity by the mayor’s staff.(2) Equal to approximately 7% of entire Chicago Police Department. For more news on this topic, see “Daley plans meetings on Chicago violence” and “Chicago police aim to reduce number of shootings, homicides“
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