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Illinois Senator Wants $30 Million To Jail 18,000 Chicago Gangster Disciples



In a controversial measure, an Illinois politician seeks to jail thousands of members of a notorious street gang in Chicago, according to CS Monitor.

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk (R) wants to organize a mass arrest plan to arrest 18,000 members of the Chicago Gangsters Disciples, a gang founded in the Windy City by Larry Hoover in the 1960s.

To accomplish this feat, Kirk is requesting $30 million from the Senate Appropriations Committee, according to Politico.

“My top priority is to arrest the Gangster Disciple gang, which is 18,000 people. I would like to a mass pickup of them and put them all in the Thomson Correctional Facility,” Kirk said, according to Chicago Mag. “I will be proposing this to the assembled federal law enforcement: ATF, DEA and FBI.”

Kirk’s proposal hasn’t been met without criticism.

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) slammed Kirk’s proposal, calling it an “upper-middle-class, elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about,” according statements given to Chicago Sun-Times.

Rush proposed Kirk’s plan should include strategies on how to employ and educate the young men residing in the poverty-stricken urban areas of Chicago.

“Kirk’s current plan does not include the option to create jobs, provide affordable and safe housing, quality health care and improve schools in urban areas, BUT certainly a plan to incarcerate 18,000 black men is elitist,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement to the Sun-Times. “Why is incarceration the sole option instead of rehabilitation which is proven to work and not locking young men up?”

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