Chicago mayor: Police 'are losing the streets' to major eruptions of violence

[DonGlock26]

Chicago mayor: Police 'are losing the streets' to major eruptions of violence




Chicago’s new mayor is taking issue with the city's police department as the city continues to see far more homicides than New York and Los Angeles, as well as major eruptions of other violence.

“One weekend does not make a trend,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday, according to Fox 32. “But we've now had a couple weekends where it feels like we are losing the streets.”

The mayor made the comments while in New York to attend the opening of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which is funded by billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg "to equip [mayors] with the tools and expertise to effectively lead complex cities."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicagos...ng-the-streets-to-major-eruptions-of-violence

She's got to say something......and then do nothing.......That's the Chicago Democrat way.

[Hillofbeans]

It's what happens in colored neighborhoods when the town leaders make it a crime to be able to defend themselves

[JustPassinThru]

That's what they need. More programs administered by crime-coddling eggheads.

[Retiredat50]

A lot of inner cities are facing the same thing. I think a big part of it is that cops are not putting themselves in situations where they might have to use their gun, because if they do it can ruin not only their career but their life. One gang is fighting and killing another, yeah that is a call where they want to get there after it is all over.

It is going to get worse. Less and less qualified people are going into law enforcement, which will mean lower the bar, means more shooting, more cops getting blames and once again the bar will be lowered.

[heyslick]

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will do absolutely nothing to improve the cities crime situation

[dinosaur]

Rules of engagement. When the good guys are required to play by restrictive rules, the bad guys have more freedom to be bad. A few more rules and stupid failures to prosecute, and the mayor will be right, the streets are lost.

Hell, with a homicide clearance rate under 10%, in Chicago, you can literally get away with murder. The streets are already lost.

https://heyjackass.com/ (Chicago shootings and crime stats page)

[Morning Star]

If you draw a graph of black population with violent crime you will get a perfect correlation ... but that would be racist.

[Conservative Libertarian]

Good old Shitcago.

[Hillofbeans]

If you draw a graph of black population with violent crime you will get a perfect correlation ... but that would be racist.

It would be factual

[Morning Star]

It would be factual

The same correlation works for black test scores, it is why college admission require affirmative action, but we're all equal and if you quote the facts you're just a racist.