THE DYING CITY – AT 9:08 A.M. ET:  The anguish of Chicago gets worse, not better.  The question must insistently be asked:  At what point do we recognize that the city cannot be governed, that its people are in mortal danger?  At what point do we think about the unthinkable, that it's time to consider sending in federal troops to patrol the streets and see to it that Chicago's children will come home safely?  From Fox:   

The Chicago Police Department warned its officers Monday about gangs armed with high-powered weapons, after three people were shot to death over the weekend and two cops were targeted in an ambush last week.

Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman, said three people who were killed in shootings Sunday were all members of the same street gang. Two of them died while attending a memorial for the earlier victim.

A shooting in the early morning hours on Sunday left one man dead, and the two others were killed and eight people were injured in a spray of more than two dozen shots from two guns while attending a makeshift memorial for him. Police said they believe the victims were all shot by members of a rival street gang in the same neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side – Brighton Park.

Police increased patrols after the morning shooting of 26-year-old Daniel Cordova, who was found dead between parked cars in the Brighton Park neighborhood. The other shooting happened about a block away. The names of the other victims were not immediately released.

Given the very real possibility that the gang war has not played itself out, the department has saturated the same area with officers and tactical teams, Guglielmi said. It also has issued a warning about gunmen with weapons powerful enough to pierce bullet-proof vests.

Meanwhile, prosecutors said Monday that a reputed gang member sprayed a police van with more than two dozen rounds from an assault rifle after mistaking the vehicle and plainclothes officers inside for rival gang members. Authorities arrested the alleged driver in the ambush, Angel Gomez, but not the shooter. The shooting occurred in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

COMMENT:  No city is perfect, but we generally don't see this kind of warfare in New York.  It's because two mayors, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg, put public safety at the top of their lists, and didn't take the advice of self-serving "minority leaders," who always found excuses for the criminal class.

Chicago is becoming the new Detroit.  And Barack Obama, who comes from Chicago and will have his presidential library there, doesn't seem to care.

May 9, 2017