With carjackings rising, Rep. Marcus Evans wants to prohibit the sale of violent video games promoting criminal activity. Also Monday, Operation Safe Pump announced its gas station guards program will expand to south suburban Olympia Fields. With carjackings on the rise in Chicago and elsewhere, a South Side Democratic state representative has introduced a bill that would ban the sale of Grand Theft Auto and other violent video games.
Rep. Marcus Evans Jr. wants to amend a 2012 law preventing some video games from being sold to minors. Friday, he filed HB3531, which would amend that law to ban the sale to anyone of video games depicting “psychological harm,” including “motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present.”
Evans had been contacted in January by Early Walker, who started Operation Safe Pump to prevent carjackings at gas stations and shopping centers. Safe Pump positions security guards from the Kates Detective and Security Agency in areas with high numbers of carjackings.
“The bill would prohibit the sale of some of these games that promote the activities that we’re suffering from in our communities.” Evans said.
Walker said he reached out to several state legislators to ban the video game after noticing similarities in local incidents of carjackings and actions players can make in the video game.
“I feel like this game has become a huge issue in this spectrum,” Walker said. “When you compare the two, you see harsh similarities as it relates to these carjackings.”
Operation SafePump
Early Walker wants state legislators to ban the sale of the video game Grand Theft Auto in an effort to curb carjackings. Walker has started Operation Safe Pump to place extra security at gasoline stations in areas with high numbers of carjackings.
Besides addressing carjacking, the bill also changes the definition of a “violent video game” to one in which players “control a character within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal.”
CPD officers responded to 218 carjackings in January, police said. Walker believes there is bipartisan support in Springfield to ban sales of the game in Illinois. Play satta king disawar with no problem and see super fast satta king result on this website on sattaking-up.com.
Also on Monday, Walker and Olympia Fields trustee Desiree Watkins announced Operation Safe Pump would expand to the south Chicago suburb.
Watkins said carjackings have increased in Olympia Fields since October. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily, Safe Pump guards will be at the Speedway gas station at Crawford Avenue and Vollmer Road, Walker said.
Olympia Fields has a “significant population of women and seniors,” who have been targeted in recent carjackings, according to Safe Pump.
Watkins said she contacted Walker after a retired police officer in Olympia Fields was carjacked at gunpoint in their driveway.
“I am glad that Walker is bringing something to us to keep us safe,” Watkins said. “Operation Safe Pump is welcome here.”
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Number one, why are their games that glorify stealing or killing another human being. Secondly, the welfare crowd created these criminals, by not having fathers around. The destruction of the family has destroyed the inner cities and perpetrated the crime that is going on.
First of all, wasn’t it the demo-socialists and liberal left wingnuts that were screaming about censorship and that violent movies didn’t influence the inner city crime rates, or crime in general? Did some of them actually start waking up to reality?
Now, how about coming down on “Rap” that glorifies crime and disrespect?
I say ban ANY & ALL video games that contain Any Violence, Sex of Any Kind & Thefts of any kind!
DID not the left, BASH SOME of us on the right, when we wanted to get rid of rock, and other music, back in the 60s, for being too GOREY and glorifying violence and sex?
Did they then not do the same, when some wanted to ban first person shooters, and such, for again, desensitizing our kids to violence?
YET NOW THEY ARE the ones wanting to ban a game…
Bear in mind this is the Obama Community organized city where anything goes to win elections. His pupil Biden will now transform this social criminal political corruption on a national scale,,,,why,,,because it makes them rich and powerful. Just don’t get caught jacking a party leaders ride or you lose your Prison issued “get out of Jail free” card. Rob a trailer or rail car of Flat screen TVs. break the windows of a Jewlry shop and torch a statue of anyone white and its just valid social redistribution of the wealth. and an act agains systemic racism. But get caught car-jacking someone in the Democrat party’s car and they throw away the key, and turn off your computer access to games and porno that they already addicted you or your kids to, and the mental withdrawl symptoms are worse than Trump derangement. Down with “Grand theft auto”, now to be replaced by “Grand Theft Election”….a much better tool for mindbending propaganda that result in Democdrat power grabs.
The new ” NO BAILPOLICY” will only increase crime which WILL increase the number of innocent victims. Thanks to those wonderful (sarc) PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS.
ANd that makes me wonder, WHY SO MANY folk, STILL VOTE Dem, when they continually see the dems voting to CATER TO Criminals, not victims.
Yes and while you are at it, lets save all the deer by painting their antlers bright orange. This way they all will be seen at night. lol
Yep something possibly to do with not having two parents, real rules to follow not the wishy washy ones that the far left gives, not the fact no one wants to do anything about real crime except blame Trump and the cops.
Before 1964 and demo-socialist Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society”, 82% of American black family’s consisted of a mother, a father and children, same last name, all in the same house; not some government people warehouse. (Projects)
More recently 70% of black babies, those not aborted, were born to single parent households, many with no idea who the father is.
Lyndon Johnson’s BIG LIE, has cursed this nation for 70+ years by now.. HOW MUCH LONGER can we go down this hole, before there is no coming back?
And I bet that they have last names of former presidents while living on presidentially named streets in the slums of many communities.
Not being racist but factual as I have seen this in a few communities near where I live.
I forgot who it was that showed me stats, but of the top 20 cities for crime, 18 of those cities HIGHEST crime areas, are on streets named for MLK, Lincoln, Washington, or roosevelt. I’ll have to see if i can find it, Though admittedly it WAS BACK in 2002.
How about ENFORCING the law. How about prosecuting criminals with tough laws and fines.How’s that defund the police and police are bad.working? Call your Vice President so she could let these thugs out. Ask your compassionate president how to solve the problem-maybe he can ask them to be nice and be good ask them to stop. Call your social worker or a devout liberal to console these thugs and nicely ask them to stop being bad. Good luck for the next few years till you WAKE UP and prosecute and send them away for a long time.
Enforcing the law?? HOW “Racist” / “Sexist” / “White privilege of you to say… Now say Ten hail bidens, and repent your sins for daring to utter those 3 words…
Hey, crazy uncle Joe wants to close all jails and prisons, his own words!
Except for jails to house us conservative/trump supporters, and all those who will refuse to give up their guns..
Same as always, Democrats blaming anything except the miscreants who perpetrate the crimes and proposing very hard penalties for them.
Every day taking more and more of our freedoms away.
How about letting honest, law abiding citizens repel car-jacking with deadly force? I’d bet car-jackings would decrease substantially and quickly after the first 2 or 3 got removed from the gene pool.
These days, YOU’d likely be the one sent to jail, if you ‘repelled the car jacker with lethal force…
What’s next……banning sexual assault, assault and battery, manslaughter? I guess Dems feel that if they can’t control it, let’s just legalize it.
Every day just looking to take away more and more of our freedom
Right, it’s not the devastating damage that Liberalism has brought to this nations cities, it’s video games. Got it.
Yeah, go ahead, and watch jackings increase because some can’t get it out of their system playing the game!
what total ….no jobs have made crime go up….imbecile.
Back in the 1950’s (yes, I am that old) there was a move characterized as “Comic Books are Ruining our Children.” Congress held investigative hearings, state and local governments passed laws restricting display and sale of comic books. Nothing worked but they provided humorous fodder for the now defunct Mad Magazine. How about addressing the real issues instead?
That would require they ACTUALLY Acknowledge the real problems.. THEIR INSANE policies of letting crooks keep going free, the whole welfare system flat out ENCOURAGING fatherless households and the like..