Cook County Jail In America

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As a native New Yorker, I really only know how to do three things - hail a cab in the middle of a torrential downpour, rant about how Monica and Rachel’s apartment on Friends is completely unrealistic as to what they would actually be able to afford (they’re a chef and a waitress, they’d be lucky to be able to afford a box in Manhattan), and I’m especially good at trashing any city that isn’t New York. So you can imagine when my parents told me they were moving us to Chicago, I was appalled. Chicago. My archenemy. My first day in Chicago, someone tried to call soda “pop”, and I was out. My horror only continued when my sister, my own flesh and blood, announced to me that she wanted to attend either the University of Chicago or Northwestern. …show more content…
How do I know this? I’ve had all too much experience with it. Now before your mind goes off imagining how I’m scratching this essay out with my fingernail on the walls of my itty bitty jail cell, I’ll tell you that the entirety my experience with Cook County Jail stems back to my father. To keep this explanation short and sweet, my dad isn’t really a great dude - in fact, by the authority of the Chicago courts I’m no longer allowed to talk to him anymore because he’s such a not great dude. That being said, I used to talk to him from jail almost daily and got to learn a fair amount about the inner workings of jail directly from an inmate - whether or not this is a good thing or not is still up in the air, but hey, if it helps me on this essay, I’ll take it. Cook County Jail is predominately black and also predominantly filled by those who have committed crimes relating to gang violence - in fact, they have a special unit, Division 3 Annex, specifically for those people who are not in a gang. Supplies of weapons and drugs flow through the jail like it’s no big deal, and the government is fully aware of what’s happening, yet simply doesn’t have the funding to put a stop to it. If Trump was to crack down on the prison system in Chicago and eliminate the trade of drugs and weapons through it, he would be cutting off a major economic asset to the gangs, thus weakening them and giving him a better chance at being able to get into their inner workings and dismantle them for good. And yet instead of doing any kind of strategic planning, Donald Trump’s plan is to just send in the Feds and be done with it, rather than recognizing the causes of the
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