Let me take a wild guess:
Posted on 06/20/2021 2:14:14 PM PDT by Libloather
Businesses in downtown Chicago that survived the pandemic-related economic slump and two spasms of looting last summer should be ecstatic with Monday's reopening of America's third-largest city.
Yet, many are batting a new hardship -- a surge in crime that is keeping customers, and their money, away.
"I've never felt more unsafe than I do now," said Steve Burrows, a 48-year-old attorney who has called Chicago home his entire life. "I work downtown so I'm here every day during the day but I won't come down here at night or on the weekend."
If people like Burrows, suburbanites and the millions of tourists who normally visit the lakefront city stay away, Chicago businesses will feel the impact as many are still trying to emerge from the tumult of the last 16 months.
Roseanna Ander, founder and executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, stresses that the uptick concerns gun crimes and other types of violent crime -- also experienced by other cities around the United States.
"The truth is nobody knows exactly what is driving the increase," Ander said.
But it's clear the pandemic added to many existing social problems.
"It exacerbated everything, it magnified everything," she said.
**SNIP**
Yet Mayor Lori Lightfoot is optimistic.
On Tuesday, a day Chicago experienced its third mass shooting in three days, she called for more federal help to stem the flow of illegal guns but also struck a positive tone.
"The reality is our city is safe. I stand by that," said Lightfoot.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
It’s a “mostly peaceful” violent crime wave.
>>”The reality is our city is safe. I stand by that,” said Lightfoot.<<
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!
(*brreeeaaaaaattthhhheee*)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!
No it ain’t. And your refusing to prosecute crimes just puts a magnifying glass on that.
I spent about a year living in downtown Chicago about 8 years ago or so. Thank GOD I left back then. The problems of the Southside, which were considerable even back then, pretty much did not make their way north of the Loop.
“Stem the flow of illegal guns”? Is that the best she can do? And does she realize that it might involve enforcing the law?
“On Tuesday, a day Chicago experienced its third mass shooting in three days, she called for more federal help to stem the flow of illegal guns but also struck a positive tone.”
Those darned guns just keep shooting people!
The truth is nobody knows exactly what is driving the increase,” Ander said
Really!!! Everybody knows what the increase is. Feral teenagers looting stores and attacking people right on Michigan Avenue and carjacking people in broad daylight at 10am in the morning might have something to do with it. Add a clueless Mayor who blames cops at every turn and you get just this lawlessness. F***ing morons.
Would t it be more accurate to say Chicago’s crime rate finally emerges from the CV19 and shutdown slump?
“Nobody is sure what’s causing it”
Yeah, okay. I’m sure the police don’t feel remotely threatened by the Mayor and DA, who are aching to throw cops in jail for doing their jobs. As a result of that and rampant defunding, they can’t or won’t do their jobs. I don’t blame them.
Let me take a wild guess:
“Chicago Alderman Anthony Napolitano last week accused Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx of running a “catch-and-release system.” He pointed to a Chicago Tribune analysis that found she had dropped more than 25,000 felony cases.”
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/16/kim-foxx-mike-schmidt-accused-fueling-riots-chicag/
What could it possibly be? ( cough Soros cough )
Red hatted Trump supporters!
Don’t forget feckless prosecutors more interested in lawfare against conservatives than law and order on the streets.
I used to be so worried about other parts of this nation and now I care less. The bottom line are those who vote and tolerate. One of the first things I heard then CANDIDATE Trump say is that he would fight for Chicago BUT ......
How so?
The old “who ya gonna believe me or your own lyin eyes”.
Roseanna Ander, founder and executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab...
“The truth is nobody knows exactly what is driving the increase,” Ander said.
This sleazy academic can lie with a straight face in claiming she does not know the causation, or she is completely clueless. In either case, she has no business running a university “crime lab” whatever that is
Uncle Miltie wrote:“Chicago Alderman Anthony Napolitano last week accused Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx of running a “catch-and-release system.” He pointed to a Chicago Tribune analysis that found she had dropped more than 25,000 felony cases.”
It’s also the courts which released them and the failure of the media to report individual case follow up. This is because of fear being accused of racism.
The shootings have never abated, even with the plandemic lockdowns. Try again Groot. The biggest problem in Chicago starts with a capital D
EMBRACE THE SUCK......you will ALL VOTE for her AGAIN!
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