Gang Study results

[Fishin Fool]

I normally never comment on local news, but I have to on this one. With crime running rampant in the city of Chattanooga, the new Gang Study Group came back with some recommendations. Scattered in the recommendations was this statement from Chief of Police Dodd:</p>

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"Why don't we as a group, or collectively as a city, bring in the mayors and go to Alstom, Amazon and go to Volkswagen and demand jobs. Not ask them, demand them. 'You're going to be a corporate citizen here; here's what we need from you,'" he said.</p>

"There's no way in the world we can't take 100 hard core criminals who run most of the crime we have in this city. Not 1,200. Not 1,300. It's about 100 people. There's no way this city can't give those 100 people a job," Dodd said.</p>

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REALLY??? This is one of the most amazing things I have ever heard anyone in law enforcement say in Chattanooga. This guy thinks that these companies should hire these thugs? Really? With thousands of upright, hard working people, out of work, trying to pay bills and do the right thing, he thinks these thugs should be given a job and the city should demand it? Does he understand that this is the entire point; thugs don't WANT to work. They want to sell drugs, steal, draw welfare and live off the public. They understand force and punishment, something that is sorely lacking in Chattanooga. Does this police chief really think this is the answer; "just give them jobs"? Sorry for the rant. Just had to point it out. Not political and I don't want it to be. It is about the mind set of a city and the people that run it. I agree with our sheriff; "put them in jail, run them out of town, or put them in the morgue".
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[reliable]

I agree, that was an absurd comment...sounds like a sound bite from the recent DNC...

 

[Aries 181]

A couple of .45 rounds to the head would be more appropriate than offering a job to those 100 cockroaches.

Bill

 

[Shark]

Yeah, that's right... give them a job making close to $20 an hour so they have more cash to buy illegal grugs and guns!!!! WTF was he thinking?

 

[Liveliner]

Agree 100%... We would have some dead Bosses if that bunch were forced to work. "Ain't no MFer gonna tell me whats I gots to do." Why should they work when they can chill at da crib till dark. Then do what they gotta do to get wats up... It appears that our Police chief is so far out of touch with reality you would think he was a Politician. That is hard to believe.

 

[Jmax]

You work hard, go to school, get an education and your up for a job. Then you get bumped out by a drug dealer who only is part of the problem. emoBang That is one of the most ridiculous statements that I have heard in a while. The guy would fit right in with the Obama bunch. emoAngry Jmax

 

[buzz]

Typical, coming from Littlefields...little boy. About like the Mayors plan to put those juviniles in a time-out center. emoEnforce

 

[Fishin Fool]

Buzz you bring up a good point. About three or four months ago I read an article about that "time out center". Guess how many of the young thugs had been taken down there? Zero. Until the police start actually enforcing the laws, and the courts start actually giving these thugs real time, nothing is going to change. I think everyone has waited for the parents to take some responsibility. We see how that has worked. The churches in these areas talk a good game on TV, but then forget about it when the camera is off. This comes down to culture. This is a culture that glorifies shooting, murder, death, harming women, driving cars with slick paint job, $4000 rims, and $2000 sound systems that irritate everyone around them. This culture is driven, to a large part, by rappers that praise drug use and selling. That praise someone when they shoot a cop or someone of a different skin color. It is driven by hatred. It is driven by a sense of entitlement. These people have the mentality of spoiled children, but spoiled children with guns and no control. I am not being a racist when I say that the vast majority of the violent crime is coming from one race. The gang study even says that. Quote from page 2 of the report: "Both gang members and their victims are predominately Black". The sad thing is there are many good people of that race, that when you bring this up, defend the thugs, or at least try and call you a racist because you tell the truth. Until this particular group realizes they have problem, unique to them, it will never be solved. It's going to take pressure from people these thugs KNOW. But if the decent people they know won't speak up, and defend any action taken against the thugs as racist, then we are fighting a losing battle.
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buzz - 9/9/2012 7:16 AM Typical, coming from Littlefields...little boy. About like the Mayors plan to put those juviniles in a time-out center. emoEnforce

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[finbully]

How many thugs do you think there would be if every person who has the right to bear arms would bear arms?

Not very many I suspect. Open carry its your right!

 

[graybullet]

Because it is much easier for the Mayor and the Police Chief to demand jobs for thugs than it is for them to just do their own. We as a city should tell the Mayor and the Police Chief to do their job or get the hell out and we will find someone who will. Just my 2 cents. Pardon me while I go emoVomit.

 

[buzz]

emoApplause . WELL SAID, Fishing Fool. The gangs know...all they are going to get is a slap on the hand. And hows that high $$$$$ task force/gang study working out? WE CAN NOW ARREST THE GANG!! Well mayor/chief.....just how many are sitting in jail as a result?

 

[Buoy-Master]

Why don't the mayor give them a job! Ha!!!

 

[elwestb]

Buoy-Master - 9/9/2012 2:41 PM

Why don't the mayor give them a job! Ha!!!

... because that arrogant, condescending, pig headed, Tyrant, dictating, power hungry peckerhead, SOB is out of a job too!

 

[Shark]

Is the Mayor sneeking into the evidence room and taking single packs of crack to smoke?

 

[catjuggin]

When I acscend to the throne of benevolent dictator and the public servants have to do what I say, I'll fix the problem.

1st.) If the young people( boys and girls) who are the touble makers don't want to be in school, put them to work; Cleaning ditches, picking up trash, clearing the storm drains, pruning the weeds along the roadside, making our city cleaner and nicer. Hard ass physical labor, day after day will wear some of that piss and vineagar out of them.

2nd) Hire vets from Afghanastan as the cadre or overseers to these young people. Let them put the young punks in their place by showing what a real man (or woman) is made of.

3rd) If they still won't behave, lock their ass up in prison with a forced sterilzation so they can't breed. ever.

4th) Send there ass back to Africa to Sudan or Somalia and let them see how Africanized they really are.

I'm not a racist, just a realist. Our society is breeding losers.

 

[Sniperchoke]

Id say they wouldn't show up to work even if they gave them a job. Are the Police gonna handcuff em and escort them to work everyday??

 

[humdinger]

I work at VW. I can tell you they wouldn't last a minute! The reason they are thugs in the first place is because they are too lazy to get a real job. Let's leave the real jobs to the real that want to work for a living! What happened to putting known gang members in jail anyway. Maby next time I'm looking for work I will just join a gang, wear my hat crooked, my paints around my ankles, and get some gold teeth.

 

[ab333]

First off we did we need a gang study. The City has said time and again that we don't have a gang problem. The "real "problem is not doing anything about it. You can only study something so much. Sooner or later you have to deal with it and there lies the rub. If ignored things get out of hand. When is the last time you turned on the news and didn't hear about a shooting. We have a lot to offer(way of life,scenery and jobs) but giving it all away to pacify a few is NOT the answer. If it is only a 100 as the chief states why doesn't he put them to work.

 

[Fixxxer93]

I wonder how much this study cost? It was a waste of time and money cause everyone knew this problem exsisted.

Why work anyways? It will be handed to you, you can buy beer/cigs at the local store with your food stamp card, your going to eventually get free health care and you can hold something over someones head that happened over a 100 years ago. Everything is always someone elses fault. My daddy didn't hug me enough or my momma whooped me with a belt. What to do with them? Theirs no answer to that question because as long as we keep saying criminals have "rights" it will never change.

They claim they live a "hard" life. WTH ever, you don't do nothing but play video games all day, then shoot people at night. The hardest part they have is waiting on the first of the month.

What the really sad part is their "culture" has permeated(sp?) the white class and they don't even want to work anymore. How many of you know someone who has a 20 something kid and won't work a day in their life? The only thing with that is since their skin is a lighter color, their told their able to work and can't all the freebies. Until the "handouts" stop, its just going to get worse and worse. emoAngry

They don't deserve VW, Amazon, or heck McDonalds. They need to be sent over seas and dropped in the middle east with a sign saying they hate muslims.

 

[Liveliner]

I strongly believe we should bring back the Military Draft with one big exception.. The Draft should be an alternative choice of a convicted thug.. that would most likely correct their ways after becoming a Military person with pride and training. I had rather pay them to pop caps in the Middle East rather than duck their bullets here or support them in Prison.