How to control violence there
Chicagoland
Crime: Instead of lobbying Olympics officials to bring the games to his hometown of Chicago, President Obama should be huddling with local officials to figure out how to control violence there. Some say Chicago is too broke to host the Olympics. Others say it's too corrupt. Above all, it's too dangerous. Crime is out of control, and the president shares some blame for the trend.
As an Illinois state senator representing South Side Chicago, he helped pass one lenient crime bill after another — and now he wants to go even further at the federal level.
Chicago is the new Murder Capital USA, passing New York with close to 500 homicides last year. Teen gang violence is horrific, as the nation witnessed this week with the beating of an honor student outside a South Side high school. Derrion Albert was clubbed to death with a two-by-four, then kicked and stomped by a pack of crazed youth.
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