Chicago lives up to its criminal reputation – Washington Examiner
The article discusses the increasing crime rates in Chicago, highlighting a notable 7.2% rise in violent crimes from August 2023 to July 2024. It asserts that offenses such as robberies and aggravated assaults have reached their highest levels in the past five years, with organized “flash mob” robberies being particularly prevalent. Notably, there is a lack of arrests, with only one in every 18 robbery cases resulting in an arrest. The piece suggests that the city’s issues are exacerbated by having a pro-criminal mayor and Democratic leadership for decades, contributing to a challenging environment for law enforcement amidst a declining population. Despite efforts to portray crime rates in other Democratic cities as improving, Chicago’s situation appears to worsen, with a paradoxical increase in crime victims even as the potential victim pool shrinks.
Chicago lives up to its criminal reputation
As it turns out, having a pro-criminal mayor in a city run by Democrats since 1931 in a state run by Democrats who want to help criminals get out of jail makes crime in said city worse.
Violent crimes in Chicago are up 7.2%, and robberies, aggravated assaults, and aggravated battery from August 2023 to July 2024 in Chicago are the highest they have been in the last five years. Robbery, including organized “flash mob” robbery, is the most common violent crime, with arrests being made in only 1 of every 18 cases.
Crime in many Democratic cities has gone down from record highs in 2020, which many in liberal media have tried to paint as a victory despite those “down” numbers still being unacceptably higher than the previous normal. Chicago can’t even do that, though, even as its population has gone down. Chicago is somehow producing more crime victims than before despite there being fewer possible victims for criminals to target.
Say what you will about Chicago’s other failures, but it has managed to make crime far more efficient. Surely that must count for something.
To combat this problem, Chicago has tried, well, nothing. Mayor Brandon Johnson says teenage criminals are just being “silly” when they rob businesses or assault people. He’s emptied law enforcement’s toolbox when it comes to dealing with crime, while Illinois Democrats have made fighting against bail their top criminal justice priority. With nary a law-and-order Republican in sight, Illinois and Chicago Democrats have achieved their criminal justice reform paradise. All it cost was record-high crime.
Crime going up when you give control to a bunch of politicians who support pro-criminal policies is completely predictable, yet Chicago still seems to have been blindsided by it. If only Chicago could come up with some place, a building perhaps, that you could put criminals in to keep them from committing more crimes. Maybe one day the city’s brilliant minds will come up with something.
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