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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1190231" data-attributes="member: 12952">The officers say people who depend on local TV and newspapers are  largely ignorant of the violence and racial slurs directed at white  police officers on a regular basis. “No politician in Chicago will say anything about that, other than to  say the people who were fighting with baseball bats need jobs, and that  is why they are violent,” said one of the officers. “That is what  happened last month at the Urban Violence Summit in Chicago with members  of the Congressional Black Caucus.” The summit, broadcast nationwide on CSPAN, featured little talk about  violence and lots of talk about racism and how unemployment are the  real problems. “People have no idea what is happening out there,” both cops agreed. “And how it is going from bad to worse.”</blockquote>