Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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CPD said the girl also robbed a 41-year-old man at the Clark-Division station about 40 minutes later. This victim was also on a Red Line train.
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Is this what CPS was teaching kids to do all year? Well guess what, schools out and the little hellions will be out doing this crap all summer. Send a thank you note to Mayor Root Cause and the CPS. You can send one to the parents too, if you can find them.
No fan of the CPS and their love of Venezuelan socialism, but I’m sure there have been 11 year old robbers throughout history, regardless of what their school did. Family, friends and being a sociopath would all be bigger influences.
Medieval England kept fairly accurate records at the time and children were hung quite frequently, even into the early industrial revolution, teenage boys were hung for petty offenses such as pickpockting. Much of continental Europe was the same for nearly 2,000 years. European crime is mostly a foreigner activity. In fact, some historians have posited that the reason why European (and Asian) crime rate are so low today is because for thousands of years they executed the genes and bloodlines of most petty criminal out of existence. Most of Asia including feudal Japan and imperial China practiced a custom called… Read more »
Zippy, Fox and the rest of the liberal ilk in Chicago are trying to normalize this sort of criminal behavior. Instead of criminalizing it, instead of invoking penalties, they want to discover the cause of why little susie is behaving this way. While that question is important, there is a society of law abiding tax paying people who are being minimalized and marginalized (to use their words) in their behavioral analysis process. Doing nothing when these animals rob people on the train is not the answer for the criminal or the tax payor. First secure the environment, make it safe… Read more »