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| Sen. Mark Kirk wants mass arrests of 18,000 young black Chicagoans he labels as GDs. |
Chicago Magazine's Whet Moser
I saw a headline the other day in which Mark Kirk proposed to arrest literally every single Gangster Disciple in Chicago. That's an estimated 18,000 people, the equivalent of arresting every man, woman, and child in East Garfield Park or Kenwood. An entire Chicago community's worth of people. It's putting it mildly to say this idea is not entirely thought-out:
Thomson has 1,600 cells. So at the tight fit of ten prisoners to a cell...you're still gonna need a bigger jail. (Cook County Jail holds about 10,000 people, but it's almost full.) Maybe this is what