See the U-S-A! In your Chev-ro-let!
Cars allow you a freedom to go almost anywhere you'd want to in the Western Hemisphere. That freedom of movement is a double-edged sword as criminals use cars to facilitate their sprees and expand the scope and range of their targets.
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Thieves and criminal gangs (mainly comprised of juveniles) leave Chicago and descend upon the suburbs to steal any that are unlocked. Everyone uses the vernacular "Break-into" when describing these thefts but, 95% of the time the vehicle is unlocked and the ones which are stolen have the keys left inside. The pattern is as predictable as it is infuriating. The gang of thieves drive down a side-street and check every car parked on the street or driveway. If the car is locked they move on, if it's open they try the push-button starter to see if the keys were left inside, if the keys aren't inside, they root around and may take a wallet or cash. But, their goal is to steal a car whose registration checks from a suburban address (to allay suspicion) in which they conduct further crimes and then often dump after crashing it.
There are several other issues; one is the so-called "Kia Boys", who learned to exploit an unforgivable loop-hole in the manufacture of Hyundais and Kias in which a simple USB could be used to start the cars. The car makers settled a $200 million class action lawsuit in May this year.
From the Wild West to Bootlegging, Dodge has always been synonymous with Crime |
According to authorities, the theft occurred in the 700 block of North Franklin just before 6 a.m. Tuesday.
The suspects used two vehicles, a pickup truck and a white sedan, to break through the front of the building. The suspects then entered the business, stole an unspecified amount of merchandise, and fled the scene in the pickup truck.
Police say the white sedan was left at the scene.
Of course, much of this non-stop rash of stolen cars could be mitigated by people locking their cars and the smash-and-grab of purses from front seats stopped by simply not leaving your purse in the driver compartment of the vehicle, but that would be victim-blaming. Instead we let the worse demagogues engage in contemptible racist demonization of those people and engaging truly dangerous authoritarian undermining of Constitutional protections in the name of Safety and Law&Order.
A wave of progressive prosecutors have won office across the country. Now, Republican-controlled state legislatures and governors are trying to curtail their power, or strip them of it altogether.
It must never be forgotten that Republicans full-heartedly believe in a Two-Tier Justice system and the unequal application of laws, which is why they are so mad that justice is blind and being applied to Traitor Trump and the Jan6th criminals for instance, instead of "rightly" being used to harass an punish minorities.
Oh noes! Gangs of THUGS FROM THE CITY! You really think that kids from Chicago are gonna bother taking the time to drive out to someplace like Glenview or Rolling Meadows to steal a car? Lock up your women too! They gonna come for them next with that Jungle Fever and all that.
ReplyDeleteThere aren't any hordes of not-white kids from the city swarming your precious suburban enclave. Remember they are built around cars and are are what gets you your DoorDash and InstaCart as well as propelling you to work every day.
I fail to see how your false statements of all the white women voting for trump has anything to do with you being racist and alarmist about keeping the sanctity of your precious white enclave.
ReplyDeleteThe media focus on false things like that and the "crime waves" forcing stores to lock everything up and close down are all racist Copaganda garbage as well.
If you must know, Wicker Park. Born in Lakeview, grew up in Schaumburg and Wheeling. Fail to see how me calling you out on racist classist rhetoric makes me in favor of bombing innocent people.
If you want to write an article about cars being bad, do some basic research and maybe talk about how the auto industry killed passenger rail in the US, or how the interstate system destroyed small towns across the country and reduced them to being a bad tourist attraction along Rt 66. Write about how "road improvements" were used to destroy black neighborhoods by putting highways through middle class residential areas.
ReplyDeleteYou could also write about how the mythos of independence as per your jingle at the top of the article isolated people since they now didn't have to interact with anyone but the sparkling white boy manning the gas pump and led to crap like right wing assholes rolling coal.
There's plenty of material if you actually do some research. Spewing some copaganda and putting a random, non-related paragraph at the end about right wingers and the cops wanting to get rid of progressive DA's doesn't make it palatable.