Chicago Police with guns drawn raid wrong home, crash 4-year-old's birthday - Sensationalist Headlines

Chicago Police with guns drawn raid wrong home, crash 4 The boy's birthday cake was "smashed," and officers "poured peroxide on his presents," a lawsuit by the family claims. Police "poured peroxide on his presents," "trashed" the apartment, "screamed profanity and insults," and left the boy's birthday cake "smashed," according to a news release from the family's attorney, Al Hofeld, Jr., on Tuesday. The release also said officers "unlawfully questioned" the two children without their parents present and "joked and laughed throughout the raid." Hofeld also said the raid was not an isolated incident, and that the Bures family's lawsuit is the "fourth of a series of excessive-force cases against the City of Chicago alleging Chicago Police are holding guns on children and terrorizing families on the South and West Sides."

I don’t know why Chicago is so romanticised. It’s governance is an absolute mess, it’s perhaps the most corrupt city in all of America, and of course things like happening in Chicago aren’t unheard of.

It's also one of the most gang-infested cities in America. The culture is pretty active there and warfare between them is common, hence all the homicides you hear about.

what the hell There's raiding the wrong home and raiding the wrong home and purposely fucking EVERYTHING up there

...Why did they pour peroxide on the presents?

Because cops are evil.

Some of the best food in the country, some of the best music in the country, one of the last strongholds for Jazz, probably the best Cancer Treatment Center of America out of the group, one of the best stand up scenes for decades, one of the best stage and drama curations in the country. All of the shit the brings pain is countered by people continuing to try to lift themselves and others up. All the shit that makes New Orleans what it is is mostly the same thing that gives Chicago a similar flavor.

IS THAT A HOUSE?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHC3uvzcfV0

When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror.

World did pretty okay without it for a good 1000 years. It's definitely a nice privilege that the rich and powered afford us commoners though! I should mention that you shouldn't be surprised when it fades away and the ugly face of feudalism starts rearing its head out in the open: not being shamed for being regressive, but praised for being progressive.

Looks like little Timmy swatted his friend for not inviting him to his cake party.

The world also wasn't an industrialized society and we dealt with criminals by chopping off their limbs or just killing them. Statements like this completely ignore why modern law enforcement was conceptualized. The precursor to modern police were the nightwatch, volunteers (or "volunteers") who would stay up all night to catch criminals. And at the time nightlife was completely nonexistant, so catch criminals meant harass everyone you see who isn't also a watchman. As it was voluntary or turn-based with no oversight these watchmen people were often lazy and corrupt, so it wasn't uncommon for the watchmen to also be thieves, harass everyone they see, get drunk, or just sleep through their shift. With Industrialization reshaping London society, the city grew massively, and a nightlife emerged in the form of night-shifts and various clubs and cafes staying open late to tend to night-shifters. That meant the watchmen could no longer simply question every man they saw out at night because people now had legitimate reasons to be out at night. A more complex society also meant that the watchmen's inability to stop any crime they hadn't personally witnessed made them quite useless. The Constabulary was formed to address these problems, Constables would be paid full-time employees instead of volunteers, and the Constabulary would have the ability to investigate crimes they hadn't witnessed. Corruption was still a massive problem for a long time, but not nearly as bad as the watchmen who were more or less expected to drink and sleep all night and harass random people.

Yeah I suppose that was a bit of an ignorant statement. Thank you for calling me out on it.

Even if on topic and a bit of commentary on the quality of law enforcement in the States, it was also a direct Deus Ex reference and should not be taken 100% seriously.

So tough and scary terrorizing a bunch of 4 year olds, I can see the standards to join Chicago p.d are so high.

chicago is romanticized? ive always heard of it called "chiraq" and just a shithole

"poured peroxide on his presents," There's absolutely no way this raid was unintentional, this was done to intimidate someone

It's both infamously shitty and dangerous and romanticized at the same time because it's the closest thing we have to a "real" city in the midwest (in my opinion St. Louis better but I think you know what I mean: celebs live in Chicago)

That's one Deux Ex post right there

St Louis has the highest murder rate of any city in the United States and one of the highest in the world. You are objectively wrong. You can list 25 more cities in the US before you get to Chicago.

I'd not be surprised if this happened here, in some of the more newly constructed suburbs of dubious legality and even stranger addressing systems... But in America where every single city is centrally planned so at least you can find everything easily? I refuse to accept the existence of such levels of incompetence. This is full-blown maliciousness, even if it isn't, because at this level it's basically the same