Chicago's Recipe For More Crime

Ignore gun crime, and you will get more gun crime. Man with 2 pending gun cases is allegedly caught with another gun — but is only charged with a misdemeanor

Or, if you give a mouse a cookie, he's gonna want a glass of milk.

Chicago’s upside-down justice system has churned out a real doozy. As usual, when CWBChicago asked the various authorities who were involved in the case to explain what happened, they pointed fingers at each other.

A 19-year-old was arrested on a gun charge. He had opened fire on a South Side street. He was released on bail. He was arrested on a 2nd gun charge and held without bail. When COVID-19 hit, he was released again.

Around 4 p.m. on October 22, police responded to a call of a man with a gun on the Far South Side. Upon arrival, cops saw Brown with two pistols in hands, prosecutors said. They chased him and saw him try to throw one of the guns onto the roof of a house before he ran inside, according to the state.

Police recovered a 40-caliber handgun with an extended ammunition magazine. They also found another weapon that turned out to be a BB gun, prosecutors said.

Brown was arrested as he tried to climb out the side window of the house.

For the 3rd gun crime, prosecutors charged him with a misdemeanor of "unlawful use of a weapon." That will teach him! To ignore the gun laws in the State of Illinois that is.

Now I don't like the gun laws in Illinois, which is one of the reasons I don't live there. But if you are not going to enforce the law, why bother?

So why the misdemeanor? The 2 parties, the State's Attorney's Office and Chicago PD are pointing fingers at each other, or just not answering questions about "pending litigation."

The people of Chicago are doomed. The law-abiding ones, anyway.