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Lightfoot Says Chicago ‘Can't Arrest Our Way' Out of Surge in Gun Violence
NBC Chicago ^ | 7/22/2021 | Staff

Posted on 07/24/2021 6:43:36 PM PDT by simpson96

Lightfoot, speaking during a press availability on Thursday afternoon, said that city officials are exploring different ways to invest in communities, and said that Chicago will focus on the city’s West Side, which has been ravaged by gun violence.

“It’s obvious: we cannot arrest our way out of this problem,” she said. “Fundamentally, if you look at the West Side and you look at the problems, the opioid addiction that is really harming so many individuals, families and communities, the investments we have to make in human capital and the investments we have to make in infrastructure, those are why I spend so much time on the West Side.”

Lightfoot’s comments come as the city saw three mass shootings on Wednesday alone. One teen was killed in North Lawndale, and at least 17 other people were injured in the three attacks, which occurred within a six-hour span of one another.

In all, nearly 30 people were shot on Wednesday alone, according to Chicago police.(snip)

“I really do believe that as goes the west side, so goes the rest of the city of Chicago,” she said. “If we can get it right here, with the mix of resources and investments and capacity building in neighborhoods, empowering residents to be able to hold the territory under their feet, with our help and our support not just in the short-term but in the long-term, that’s really what the investments have to be about, and I’m totally committed to that.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...


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To: Lurkinanloomin

I think if you just brought in a new prosecutor crew (non-Chicago residents) and just went for maximum prosecution in every single case...letting the police know that the guy won’t get a deal, you’d reshape the city in a matter of just two years.


61 posted on 07/24/2021 11:46:36 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: simpson96

Banning guns instead of arresting detaining prosecuting and imprisoning criminals


62 posted on 07/25/2021 2:24:35 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: simpson96

NBC Chicago - One of Lightheads major supporters in the Chicago Fake News Industry - Lighthead does no wrong ever in the eyes of NBC Chicago.


63 posted on 07/25/2021 3:11:54 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: simpson96
"the investments we have to make in human capital and the investments we have to make in infrastructure, those are why I spend so much time on the West Side."

Oh....ok, I thought it was because that's where your dealer was located..

64 posted on 07/25/2021 3:26:35 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: simpson96; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ...

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65 posted on 07/25/2021 6:18:59 AM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: simpson96
So...Lori Lightfoot is saying guns caused violence but if taxpayers empower the denizens of Chicago, the guns will stop causing violence?

What empowerment are they lacking? They have all the freebies any Third World resident would love to have.

...unless it's the empowerment of IQ and morality...starting with blaming guns instead of the perpetrators.

66 posted on 07/25/2021 6:22:20 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: simpson96

Per HeyJackass.com so far this weekend: 7:00a Peaceful Tally: 8 killed, 47 wounded.


67 posted on 07/25/2021 6:24:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Sasparilla

Laws like those would have to be worded very carefully to preclude lawfare against self defense.


68 posted on 07/25/2021 6:33:09 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: ransomnote

Oh definitely. There is method to the madness and this is it.


69 posted on 07/25/2021 6:35:50 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: T.B. Yoits; SunkenCiv; teenager; Liz; Kaslin

I like that phrasing: Guns (in democrat criminal hands ) cause violence, but when the democrat totalitarians take the guns (from conservative hands), there will be peace. Because the guns (in democrat government hands) will stop causing violence.

Tell that to Ashli Babbitt’s grave.


70 posted on 07/25/2021 6:46:51 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: unixfox

Arresting the violent criminals and putting them in jail for long periods has been proven to work. Releasing them back into the community only hours or days after they commit a crime has proven to INCREASE crime.


71 posted on 07/25/2021 7:03:11 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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To: simpson96
Yep, Laurie. All Sh!tcago needs are a few more tweaks to "the mix of resources and investments and capacity building" and the unicorns will gladly come out and play.

Are there more stupid people than Liberals?

72 posted on 07/25/2021 7:14:08 AM PDT by Gritty (All those who’ve lied about everything for 5 years are the ones demanding I take the vaccine-JKelly)
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To: simpson96

She certainly helped “can’t arrest your way” into it.


73 posted on 07/25/2021 8:41:02 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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To: simpson96

No solutions.

One must wonder if the left still has dreams of a Federal Police Force (Brown Shirts) they will do anything to maintain total power just look at what they are doing now?.


74 posted on 07/25/2021 9:02:04 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: simpson96

The offspring of Beetlejuice and Don King speaks…


75 posted on 07/25/2021 10:07:17 AM PDT by MrKatykelly
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To: carriage_hill

The DEA is only interested in gun dealers who might have messed up their paperwork. Lot safer than dealing with actual criminals.


76 posted on 07/25/2021 10:19:56 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: from occupied ga

You mean like Bidet’s crackhead kid?


77 posted on 07/25/2021 10:46:59 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: from occupied ga

No he’s way to dangerous for them to tackle.


78 posted on 07/25/2021 11:46:58 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

h/t allendale......debilitating and troubling phenomena.

A culture that has so many bizarre post menopausal old ladies in positions of power.

Pelosi, Harris, Jackson, Duckworth, Hikomo, Sotomayer, Kagan, Feinstein,Cheney, Collins, Murkowsi, Lightfoot, Clinton.

These old cranky biddies play critical, negative roles in governing in what had been a vibrant, strong productive, decent society.

Decline and decay are inevitable.


79 posted on 07/25/2021 11:56:33 AM PDT by Liz (\Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doe't know which bathroom to use)
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To: Liz

And we can ad the Hollywood and NY TV “stars” in their news media. Sawyer, Couric, Oprah, ....


80 posted on 07/25/2021 1:00:39 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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