Posted on 10/13/2021 8:31:48 AM PDT by karpov
America’s major cities have seen trying times over the last year and a half, but Chicago seems to have fared worse than most. Why?
Today’s political class in Chicago wears the jacket for what’s gone so badly wrong, true. But in the 30 years prior to 2019, under Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel, Chicago government fostered widespread corruption that undermined accountability and the social fabric. Both mayors deserve credit for supporting public charter schools; still, today, only a sliver of all Chicago public K-12 students are clearing the bar at fourth, eighth, and eleventh grade.
And nowhere else has bail reform run more off the tracks than in Chicago. The crime scorecard is marked with serious new charges for far too many individuals recently released on low-cash or no-cash bonds, or via weak plea deals. The city wouldn’t stick with targeted foot patrols by police in the highest-crime districts, a tactic shown widely to dampen violent crime and help build trust. Finally, Chicago politicians have long been scared of their own shadows. They won’t confront the moral failure of too many parents, who let their sons run violently amok. Nowhere else has the “social justice” policy agenda been so recklessly pursued as in Chicago. The current governance of the city and of Cook County, which controls local courts, is a crime against the citizenry.
You argue that there’s a connection between Chicago corruption and politicians’ penchant for deflecting accountability with charges of “systemic racism.” Could you explain that thesis?
The operating principle for both Chicago political corruption and officialdom’s cynical racial essentialism has been, simply, “don’t get nailed.” And nailed is not the same thing as revealed. The untruth of the Unified Theory of Systemic Racism is clear to its vocal adherents, including Mayor Lori Lightfoot
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Anybody who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart.
So much is wrong here . . .
couldn’t get past
“deserve credit for supporting public charter schools”
You only need Charter Schools if your public schools SUCK.
and they’re all still run by the Teachers Unions.
Keep doing the same thing and expecting different results is one definition of Crazy.
As soon as Emanuel took over, he cut the Ceremony.
Chicago is just catching up to the other failed cities in the Great Lakes Region. There is no longer anything keeping them from being another Detroit.
Memphis isn’t even this bad. And I wouldn’t go there unarmed.
Give democrats power and they create hellholes.
It’s a democrat run shithole. Major election fraud’s been going on that city for longer than I’ve been on this earth. No surprise.
bkmk
YEP!
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