Youth Newsletter
June 2011 Edition
Chicago Violence
Dexter Isaac Confession
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Fact Demand
Chicago Violence: Rahm Emanuel Adds 150 Beat Cops As 7 Killed Over The Weekend
Standing before a crowd of several reporters and over a hundred community members, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and new police superintendent Garry McCarthy announced that 150 police officers would be moved from administrative jobs to the beat.
The announcement was made at the Centennial Monument, a stately column in Logan Square that stands a little more than a mile from the site of a tragic shooting last week. Gang member Antonio Bucio is suspected of opening fire on a basketball game in nearby Avondale Park, when stray bullets grazed a two-year-old girl's head and struck a seven-year-old girl in the back.
Standing before the column, Emanuel said that the new reassignments were a cornerstone of his anti-crime policy. "More police on the street and getting kids, guns and drugs off the street, that is just the basic strategy that we have to follow," he said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
McCarthy echoed the mayor's sentiment, as the Chicago Tribune reports, emphasizing that the onus will be placed squarely on the shoulders of the district commmanders. "I've publically stated that the single most important thing that we can do is get cops on the street, put them in the hands of the (district) commanders and hold the commanders accountable," the superintendent said.
Friday at noon and the end of the day Sunday, NBC Chicago reports that the weekend's homicides
included a man shot to death attending a graduation party and a couple inside their car.
As of Sunday night, no one was in custody for any of the seven fatal shootings on the South and West Sides, which were credited to a war between rival gangs sparked two weeks ago.
But McCarthy did boast of 34 arrests in the cases of so-called "flash mob" violence, claiming that "almost everyone" involved in the battery and theft cases in the high-end shopping
district of Streeterville had been detained.
The reassignment of the 150 officers follows an earlier redeployment of 500 policemen from special operations units to walking the beat. It is part of Mayor Emanuel's pledge to
put 1,000 more cops on the street, although he has done so thus far primarily by dismantling the special operations units put together by McCarthy's predecessor Jody Weis. So far, no new officers have been hired, while the department remains understaffed by approximately 2,000 cops.
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Dexter Isaac Admits to Tupac Shakur Robbery and Shooting Involvement
Isaac, Dexter a longtime associate of James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, released a statement to AllHipHop.com confessing to being involved in the robbery and shooting of Tupac Shakur. "I want to apologize to his family (Tupac Shakur) and for the mistake I did for that sucker Jimmy Henchman," Isaac said from prison. "I am trying to clean it up to give Tupac and Biggie's mothers some closure."
Rosemond is a hip hop mogul and CEO of Czar Entertainment who manages The Game and Sean Kingston, among many others. In May, he turned himself in on drug charges, and named Isaac in a lengthy statement defending himself and professing his innocence.
The shooting took place two years before Tupac was fatally shot on September 7th, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada, by two unnamed assailants.
An excerpt from Rosemond's statement, which can be read in full here:
"In 1994, James Rosemond hired me to rob 2Pac Shakur at the Quad Studio. He gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Synthia Ried. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery."
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Isaac, Dexter a longtime associate of James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, released a statement to AllHipHop.com confessing to being involved in the robbery and shooting of Tupac Shakur. "I want to apologize to his family (Tupac Shakur) and for the mistake I did for that sucker Jimmy Henchman," Isaac said from prison. "I am trying to clean it up to give Tupac and Biggie's mothers some closure."
Rosemond is a hip hop mogul and CEO of Czar Entertainment who manages The Game and Sean Kingston, among many others. In May, he turned himself in on drug charges, and named Isaac in a lengthy statement defending himself and professing his innocence.
The shooting took place two years before Tupac was fatally shot on September 7th, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada, by two unnamed assailants.
An excerpt from Rosemond's statement, which can be read in full here:
"In 1994, James Rosemond hired me to rob 2Pac Shakur at the Quad Studio. He gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Synthia Ried. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery."
Fact Demand
Addiction:
Twenty-seven percent of the U.S. population will deal with substance abuse at some point in their life. Substance abuse is the cause of 25 percent of U.S. deaths. And 50 percent of all traffic deaths are caused by alcohol.
Check the facts:
- Addiction kills 95 percent of addicts who do not receive treatment.
- In 2008, 52.5 percent of eighth graders were drinking alcohol; 23.9 percent of tenth graders and 32.4 percent of twelfth graders were using marijuana.
- 450,000 die from smoking every year in America and another 100,000 die from complications related to alcohol abuse.
Child Labor:
In 2004, the International labor Organization estimated there were 218 million children trapped in child labor—with 126 million aged 5-17 working in hazardous conditions. Any of the worst forms of child labor—including prostitution and trafficking—are a cause and consequence of HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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- 1 in 6 children in the world, ages 5 to 14, is engaged in child labor.
- 126 million children work in hazardous conditions.
- The highest numbers of child laborers are in the Asia/Pacific region, where there are 122 million working children
Education:
Nearly one billion people entered the twenty-first century unable to read a book or sign their names. Around the world more than 115 million school-age children are not in school. Without education and subsequent skills, the risk of extreme poverty, starvation, and sickness and disease all increase dramatically.
Check the facts:
- Nearly 53 percent of children not in school are girls, and 64 percent of global population who can’t read or write are women.
- Less then 1 percent of what the world spends on weapons would allow every child in all developing countries to attend school.
Inner City:
Poverty prevails in the inner city. Nearly 13 million American children live in families with income below the federal poverty level, which is 20,000 a year for a family of four.
Check the facts:
- 1 billion people are either homeless or living in poor housing.
- About 90 percent of the children living on the streets of the world are addicted to inhalants like glue and paint thinner
