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News & Features, Feature, May 8, 2013
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Addicted to guns

Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, guns, gun violence, The Crime Report, violence interrupters, Marilyn Pitchford, shootings, gun violence, violence, CeaseFire, Sheldon Smith, ex-offenders, Safer Foundation, Tony Wade, conflicts, conflict resolution, Greater Grand Crossing, South Side, neighborhoods, Hales Franciscan High School, Kennedy-King College, U.S. attorney, Jack Tweedle, ATF, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, social services, Project Safe Neighborhoods, City Colleges, 911, Barack Obama's house, Anita Alvarez, City Council, Cook County state's attorney, roots of violence, poverty, Michael Chandler, 24th Ward, gang members, Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, Charlie Beck, Connie Rice, Los Angeles Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Develop, U.S. Department of Justice, Phil Cline, murder, race, Rahm Emanuel, CPD, Chicago Police Department, policing, Violence Reduction Strategy, Gary McCarthy, police overtime, Englewood, Hadiya Pendleton, West Humboldt Park, Frederick Seaton, interruption, gun laws, Michael Davis, Turkey Chop, restaurants, Napoleon English, liquor stores, prison, crime, punishment, Chicago Tribune, Richard M. Daley, George Mason University, Christopher Koper, basketball, high school basketball, marijuana, drinking, drug dealing, Gangster Disciples, gangs, Evans Mob, Vice Lords, drug territory, gang territory, addiction, Audio

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News & Features, Feature, Mar 20, 2013
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Can a restaurant transform a neighborhood?

West Humboldt’s new war on drugs: Open a business
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, restaurants, West Humboldt Park, community investment, businesses, Chet Jackson, TIFs, drugs, drug dealing, tax increment financing, Salvation Army, West Humboldt Park Community Development Council, Chicago Avenue, Jimmy Simmons, Walter Burnett Jr., community development, community policing, neighborhoods, Quentin Love, Chicago Community Loan Fund, Goldie Fleming, Turkey Chop

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 22, 2013
Drug arrests drop in Chicago but still snare thousands in black neighborhoods

While Mexican cartel leader "Chapo" Guzman is public enemy number one, most drug busts still snag street-level players.
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, Politics, News, Chapo Guzman, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El Chapo, Sinaloa cartel, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy, Drug Enforcement Agency, Jack Riley, Chicago Police Department, drugs, narcotics, drug busts, war on drugs, West Humboldt Park, gang violence, drug dealing, drug dealers, Chicago violence, shootings, murder, heroin, crack, crime data, arrest data, President Obama, Barack Obama

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 15, 2013
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How about a war on the roots of violence?

The people responsible for drug and gang violence follow a pattern: despair.
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, Politics, News, Barack Obama, President Obama, violence, Chicago, Hadiya Pendleton, Dantrell Davis, Ben Wilson, gangs, drugs, drug dealing, murder, homicide, shootings, gun violence, gun control, New Breeds, heroin, Enrique Peña Nieto, unemployment, prison

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News & Features, Feature, Feb 14, 2013
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Anatomy of a heroin ring

Dana Bostic's gang-affiliated west-side drug organization employed dozens of residents, served thousands of customers, established ties with Mexican drug cartels, and relied on violence to stay in business.
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, Dana Bostic, druck trafficking, Rock 'n' Roll McDonalds, Stroger Hospital, U.S. Attorney, Excalibur, Jerry Bischoff, Matthew F. Kennelly, River North, Taste of Chicago, drug cartels, Mexican drug cartels, gang violence, DEA, Eddie Valentino, Bucktown, Erik Guevara, Chicago Sun-Times, Drug Enforcement Agency, Sinaloa cartel, Curtis Ellis, Mahogany Barbee, heroin, Brandon Richards, Dormin, antihistamines, cutting heroin, drug runners, drug dealers, Operation Bird Cage, Aurora, Berwyn, Cicero, Woodridge, guns, Cornelius Thomas, Davon Taylor, Lee Floyd, Charles Cowart, New Breeds, west side, Tony Allen, White Palace Grill, Joe Gorman, Dirty Unknown Vice Lords, Austin, CPD, Chicago Police Department, crime, Maurice Davis, ecstasy, marijuana, drug use, Takers, Undertaker Vice Lords, West Garfield Park, gangs, Black Gangsters, drug dealing, crack, Vice Lords, 11th police district, West Humboldt Park, East Garfield Park, murders, homicides, poverty, jobs, unemployment, K-Town, schools, Eleazar Alves, Ladonta Gill

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News & Features, Feature, Jul 25, 2012
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Shorty's comeback

Kelvin Wallace has been given one more chance to prevail over the heroin addiction he's struggled with for decades. "A whole lot is riding on me getting this right."
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, Kelvin Wallace, heroin, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug arrests, It's About Change, veteran's court, Larry Axelrood, poverty, substance abuse, drug dealing, recovery home, recovering addicts, Deer Rehabilitation Services, 12-step meetings, U.S. military, Lemmon 714, crack, cocaine, Westside Health Authority, Audio

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 12, 2012
Rahm announces another "new initiative" that's decades old

The mayor's plan to raze troubled buildings sounds a lot like the one Mayor Daley "introduced" in 1992
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, Politics, Clout City, News, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy, Chicago Police Department, drugs, drug busts, war on drugs, Humboldt Park, gang violence, homicides, murders, drug dealing, Chicago violence, community activism, buildings, abandoned buildings, Mayor Daley, Richard Daley, affordable housing, Auburn-Gresham, Englewood, Greater Grand Crossing

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 13, 2012
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Chicago's crime problem: A matter of "perception"

If Chicago's crime problem is only a matter of "perception," then why are police being asked to work extra patrols on their days off?
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, News, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy, Al Wysinger, Chicago Police Department, drugs, narcotics, drug busts, war on drugs, Humboldt Park, gang violence, homicides, shootings, drug dealing, drug dealers, Chicago violence, community activism, murder, marijuana, pot

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Blogs, Bleader, May 4, 2012
Drug arrests on top of drug arrests

Chicago police officials keep announcing more drug busts, but it's not clear what's actually changed on the street
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, Drugs Week, Politics, Clout City, News, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy, Al Wysinger, Chicago Police Department, drugs, narcotics, drug busts, war on drugs, Humboldt Park, gang violence, drug dealing, drug dealers, Chicago violence, community activism, shootings, murder, heroin, crack, Variations on a Theme, crime data, arrest data

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Blogs, Bleader, May 1, 2012
The politics of drug busts

The Emanuel administration gets aggressive about displaying dope on the table
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, The Reefer, Drugs Week, Politics, News, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy, Al Wysinger, Chicago Police Department, drugs, narcotics, drug busts, war on drugs, Humboldt Park, gang violence, drug dealing, drug dealers, Chicago violence, community activism, shootings, murder, heroin, crack, Variations on a Theme

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News & Features, Feature, Apr 25, 2012
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Besieged

West Humboldt is one of America's biggest open-air drug markets. What does that mean for its residents?
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, Humboldt Park, gang violence, drug dealing, drug dealers, Chicago violence, community activism, shootings, murder, heroin, crack, Chicago Police Department, Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, overdose, abandoned homes, Audio

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 9, 2011
Today's marijuana lesson comes from New York City

How Chicago can take a cue from New York City on pot possession.
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, The Reefer, Weed Week, Politics, Clout City, Variations on a Theme, marijuana, weed, reefer, pot, police, drug possession, Chicago police, arrests, New York, New York City, New York City police, Raymond Kelly, illegal searches, African-Americans, probable cause, street dealing, drug dealing, decriminalization, legalization, racial disparities, Father Pfleger, Michael Pfleger, Chicago City Council, Illinois house

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 9, 2011
Why are blacks busted more often for pot?

Illegal searches play a leading role in the racial imbalance.
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Crime, The Reefer, Weed Week, Politics, Clout City, Variations on a Theme, marijuana, weed, reefer, pot, police, drug possession, Chicago police, arrests, Mick Dumke, Ben Joravsky, judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, illegal searches, African-Americans, probable cause, street dealing, drug dealing, heroin, crack, cocaine, PCP, rocks and blows, criminal records, drug crews, ghettos, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, decriminalization, legalization, racial disparities, segregation

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 4, 2008
Buttonholed

A City Council committee agrees: drug dealers sell drugs, not extra suit buttons.
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: News, Clout City, Ed Smith, Chicago City Council, Bob Fioretti, Walter Burnett, drug dealing

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