so those torturers have been wreaking havoc on my hood.

[mopinko]

didn't put 2 & 2 together till this morning.
this is life in chitown right now. and this is not the bombed out west side. this is a wonderful hood full of great diversity and heart.

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170106/rogers-park/torture-video-facebook-young-pappy-pbg-gang-tesfaye-cooper?utm_source=Chicago&utm_campaign=c750ea1768-Mailchimp-CHI&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4061d3bea7-c750ea1768-174081213


eta- i can tick off at least a dozen ways that the city is failing these kids. things get better all the time, but that doesnt stop the now from destroying young lives.

[pansypoo53219]

1. 30+ years of reaganism.

make the poor poorer.

[philosslayer]

2. I agree

Ultimately, its Ronald Reagan who is responsible for this. The murders and mayhem in Chicago can be laid on his doorstep.

[mopinko]

3. plenty of blame right here in chi. lead poisoning

is likely behind many of these broken minds, combined w childhoods full of trauma. domestic violence is not taken seriously and children are traumatized physically and emotionally. can you say tbi?

but lead. i think jan 1 a law went into effect that instead of just having to sign a "lead paint waver", there had to be a lead inspection when residential property changes hands. that is only about 50 years too late.
and the soil. everywhere.

and dont get me started on the public schools most of these broken people attend, where they get more broken every day unless the drop out.

[hunter]

4. Lead is a bad one. So are the insecticides many homes are drenched in...

... to kill the super-resistant cockroaches.

Anything that trashes the nervous system or disrupts the hormonal systems of an insect is suspect. Many insecticides are potent nerve gasses for invertebrates. Shift a few atoms around and they'd be equally deadly to mammals. The same can be said of insecticides that disrupt insect hormonal systems. Furthermore, insecticides are not checked so thoroughly as pharmaceuticals for undesirable chemicals produced by side reactions during their production.

Arsenic insecticides used to be common too, and that arsenic doesn't go away. It's yet another thing that interferes with normal childhood development.

Combine environmental toxins with poor diet and the abusive situations so many children suffer, and it's amazing we don't have more incidents like this.

My own kids spent their early childhood in old houses in not-so-good neighborhoods, and it was something my wife and I worried about. But we had the resources to safely deal with flaking paints and to seal up the interior ceilings, walls, and floors. And we didn't let our kids eat the dirt in the backyard. Sorry, no mudpies.

Unrelated to neurotoxins like lead, the first two houses we lived in had asbestos siding and vermiculite insulation in the attic. Vermiculite sold in the U.S.A. often contained asbestos, but now it doesn't, thanks to those onerous environmental regulations the Republicans despise.

[mopinko]

5. and those bug sprays are heavy in public housing, and

other crappy housing that the poor have to be grateful for.

and even homes that arent abusive can be blown apart through calamity as opposed to cruelty.
hell, multiply the number of murders times 2 parents, times how many siblings, times how many best friends. all shredded by the same bullet.

everybody here knows who sells guns in indiana that come up here in a flood. tell me there is nothing crooked about a wide open merchant of death.
oh, nothing to see here, just a little gun show loophole.

i could go on and on. there is lead paint falling in the local poor public school.
sometimes not going postal is all i can accomplish.