Posted on 10/12/2020 6:06:23 AM PDT by Salman
As a candidate and then mayor, Lori Lightfoot has spoken often of her ambition to fully reinvent Chicago’s approach to combating its stubborn violence problem.
Key to those plans are anti-violence organizations, including those that intervene in disputes or toss lifelines to people likely to kill or die. She said last year that those outreach groups were “fundamentally critical to what we’re doing,” as she seeks to treat violence as a public health crisis.
“We will make sure they have the resources they need to be successful,” she said.
More than 16 months into her term, however, Lightfoot’s plan to fundamentally change Chicago’s approach by relying on those groups has not developed. The administration’s spending on them is a vanishingly small part of this year’s budget, and anti-violence advocates have criticized her relatively modest funding of those initiatives during one of the bloodiest years in recent history.
The administration has touted its $11.5 million in spending this year on conflict intervention, counseling and employment help for people at risk, as well as services for victims and funding for the city’s public safety office.
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No one is addressing problem for real.
I’m highly amused that a newspaper that has no future requires four “reporters” who have no talent to tell us that a mayor who has no competence is unable to use a city budget that has no funds to implement a strategy that has no hope.
To address the problem for real they would need to acknowledge some ugly truths. It won’t happen.
> The administration’s spending on them is a vanishingly small... <
I’m going to help Mayor Lightfoot out here. What is Chicago’s main industry these days? It’s looting, of course. So all the mayor need do is put a tax on looting - maybe a 5% tax on everything stolen.
See? Sometimes difficult problems really do have easy solutions.
I wouldn’t allow Lightfoot to run a roadside trash removal crew.
lol
She wants Democrat Militias??? She wants a bunch of Brown Shirts running the streets of Chicago ???
Another Great Groot Weekend
Stats from HeyJackass.com:
6:00p Peaceful Tally: 4 killed, 43 wounded
2019 weekend tally: 8 killed, 20 wounded
2018 weekend tally: 4 killed, 26 wounded
2017 weekend tally: 9 killed, 17 wounded
2016 weekend tally: 10 killed, 42 wounded
2015 weekend tally: 3 killed, 20 wounded
2014 weekend tally: 3 killed, 22 wounded
It took 4 people to write this piece of crap???
There are solutions that work. My late mother was a volunteer in her community. Unfortunately, they require competency, commitment and cash (over the long term). The long term involved early intervention.
Where’s your “Black is Beautiful” now, Lightfoot?
The people of Chicago are reaping what they have sown. The blame lies at their feet.
The fact that they have elected airheads who have no clue merely reflects the obvious fact that the people of Chicago are airheads who have no clue.
And if you are a voting citizen of Chicago then wake the f—k up.
Yeah, these groups are like ticks. They want to bleed the host for $$ without delivering any tangible results. Measuring and evaluating results objectively is a White thing.
It took four people to write this codswallop.
Think about that.
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How about for real, for real?
I can hardly wait to see what Second City Cop has to say about this on his blog.
If you are a citizen trapped in Kalifornia, you get the f--k out.
If you are a citizen trapped in DeBlazio's NYC, you get the f--k out.
Why should anybody stay in Lightfoot's Chicago?
Lori Lightfoot, just create a massive amount of red tape so no one is really in charge of anything. Don’t report on crimes, and the MSM will cover for your sorry a$$.
Willing to bet this is exactly what happens... because that’s what is happening now.
Because everyone who can think critically knows, all you need for a bad plan to become a great plan is money.
“we need money to throw these criminals a life-line so they won’t commit crimes”.
Just make what they’re doing legal, therefore no crime!
Egads, what horseshit these people write.
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