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Posted on 11/11/2026 2:53:18 PM PST by george76
Imagine calling 9-1-1 nine times for a home invasion and rape in progress. And nobody comes. For hours.
Welcome to Chicago. On November 6, 2026, a 19-year-old woman named Yizel was home alone in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood when an armed man broke in, forced her into the bathroom, and raped her at gunpoint. He stole her phone and bag and then left.
Her family called 911 repeatedly. EMS arrived. The Chicago police did not.
Dispatch records show the 911 center received nine calls. The Gresham District was in “Radio Assignments Pending” status—no patrol cars available. The attack reached the radio around 12:21 p.m. The victim was at Holy Cross Hospital by 1:13 p.m.
At 2:05 p.m. a sergeant asked for an officer; the dispatcher said none were available. An officer was finally sent at 2:13 p.m.—more than three and a half hours after the assault began. Her family tracked the stolen phone to a nearby park within an hour and the landlord believed he spotted the suspect.
No officers checked. Yizel waited more than four hours to speak with a police officer.
She later said it should never have taken that long and that she didn’t feel protected. She noted that faster response might have allowed police to catch the man while he was still nearby. CPD leadership offered no comment on the timeline of their response. A suspect photo was released and he remains at large.
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This outcome is the product of years of deliberate understaffing. Citywide sworn officer strength peaked near 13,350 in early 2019, pre-George Floyd, and now stands at around 11,400 to 11,600, a drop of roughly 1,700–2,000 officers.
The Gresham District dropped from 378 officers when Brandon Johnson took office in May, 2023 to about 316 today, a 16 percent cut. Johnson’s budgets have frozen hundreds of vacancies, eliminated or converted sworn positions, and left the department barely keeping pace with retirements.
A recent workforce study documented “real and uneven staffing pressures” and called for hundreds more officers on the street. Overtime has soared while priority calls still sit unanswered for hours.
Rank-and-file officers aren’t the problem. Department leadership under successive mayors and the political direction set by Mayor Brandon Johnson are. Johnson has treated police staffing as a budget lever rather than a basic public safety requirement.
Governor J.B. Pritzker’s broader policy environment in Illinois has reinforced the same priorities: restrictions on lawful self-defense while the police who are supposed to serve as the alternative are slashed.
The result is predictable. When a violent felony is in progress, the nearest available officer can be hours away. Criminals face delayed (if any) consequences and victims are left to survive alone. In Chicago, maybe more than anywhere else in America, you are your own first-responder.
Yizel had no firearm in her home and no practical way to resist an armed invader. In a city where political leadership has reduced sworn officer strength for years, that’s the actual security arrangement. Police can’t be counted on for an in-progress home invasion or rape call when the district has no cars to send. The city’s leadership owns this failure.
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Their efforts were aplenty for Justin Smollett.
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Uh-huh. How's that "refund the police " thing working out for you, Chicago?
Damn you, autocorrect!
When seconds count, the cops are hours away. PERIOD. Arm up, practice, carry. Live on your feet or die on your knees.
It seems like the end goal is to Federalize “law enforcement” and “medical care”.
Give that mfer a chance to get clear, like it never happened.
1930s, Germany, state and local police forces were nationalized and unified under a single command structure, In Prussia, Hermann Göring established the Gestapo (Secret State Police) in 1933, and by 1934, Himmler had been appointed commander of political police forces across all federal states, bypassing traditional state autonomy .. culminating in the appointment of Heinrich Himmler as Chief of the German Police in 1936
You would think a demonicRAT run city wouldn’t need that many cops. Aren’t they all about safety and love and humanity?
Clearly they need more social workers and to defend the police some more.
*defund
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I’m so thankful I live in Oklahoma. I used to live in Illinois; left 25 years ago, thank the Lord! In Oklahoma, there are plenty of “ignorant rednecks” who have enough common sense aband are smart enough to NEVER consent to giving up their guns or voting for some defund the police nonsense. If somehow Congress or a future democrat president makes it a federal law, they won’t find much compliance here. Two of my children and their families still live in Illinois. My son and his wife plan on retiring here, but they’ve got a good ten years til then. My daughter works from home, and could live anywhere she wants, but can’t leave Illinois til her son is 18, due to custody issues, 4½ more years. Lord please keep them safe!
Chicago cops have guven up and simply don’t care anymore. Can’t say that I blame them what with that eternal democrat machine running things. Morale in the septic tank.
PS I grew up in the Auburn - Gresham neighborhood back when America was still America.
Memphis too. To make things worse, they monitor patrol car GPS for productivity purposes. So, they come to the location , sit for a few, and then leave. Their supervisory analytics show they responded......
I’d like to know what the police were doing that was so much more important that it kept them from responding.
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