Ted joined Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson this week to discuss the WSJ’s recent editorial “Massacre as Usual in Chicago,” the city’s increasingly poor arrest rates and the fact that neighborhoods are hiring private security for protection.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Violence prevention can’t be bought
- Chicago’s unserious marketing efforts
- Fresh CPD data: No, Chief Brown, carjackings are not down in Chicago. Not anymore.
- Chief Executive Magazine ranks Illinois third-worst state for doing business, yet Illinois politicians think businesses will move here because of…“equity!”
- Chicago car thefts spike sharply in 2022, up 100% along lakefront compared to 2019
- Close the revolving door for high-risk offenders in Cook County
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
The choice is very simple.
Leave Chicago and live.
Or stay in Chicago and die.
Which do you choose?
With asset value declines in pension funds, interest rate increases, state & local revenue declines, we stumble over the kicked can much sooner than expected. The Federal government can’t risk any more bailouts. Hopefully, after November, the Dems won’t control the Congress. Biden would still veto state bankruptcies, but hopefully the local governments will be forced into Chapter 9 in order to keep the doors open. The sooner the better as far as I am concerned, and I’m tempted to see the bad news projections as the best possible news. Not only for lawyers, but for the taxpayers of Illinois… Read more »
Since the kids can’t read, why waste money on signs? More patronage for sign makers.
The eternal Chicago question: how’s that diversity working out for you?
And voters, not only in Chicago but in every crime ridden major city, will still vote for the same democraps that led to the violent crime wave(s) that are occurring. Foxx, Preckwinkle, Lightfoot, on and on continue to be put in office by the voters who then will blame law abiding gun owners, conservatives, President Trump and generally everybody and everything except themselves. WAKE UP!
Well after the last election I’m not so sure they are really getting the votes in the cities. They are just counting and or creating ballots, any ballot.
And that’s why they deserve no sympathy.
Plenty of room in the cemetery for the gullible ignorant enablers in Urban America.
Shining a light on Chicago’s out of control violent crime issue won’t really help Chicago, but when a national publication like the WSJ does it, hopefully the rest of the country can see what liberal democrat policies will ultimately yield.
Imagine a board of directors discussing where to expand their business and then one of them sees this WSJ article. “Take Illinois off the list”
I think a large airplane manufacturer just did. F both JBs
All this will get 10 times worse, once the new Democrat Crime-Coddling laws go into effect, making it impossible to arrest or jail the crime thugs