Ted joined Dan and Charles Thomas to talk about the 50/50 chance of police immediately responding to a 911 call in Chicago, the rate of out-migration from Illinois, the lack of Chicagoans’ confidence in city law enforcement, the latest on the state’s illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- South and southwest Chicago suburbs to be hammered by massive property tax increases
- The great exodus continues: Fresh IRS data shows Illinois loses residents to 40 other states
- IRS migration data: Big blue states biggest losers of people, wealth. Big red states biggest winners. – A Wirepoints 50-state survey
- If you’re shot, robbed or assaulted in Chicago, there’s a 50/50 chance there’ll be no police to respond to your 911 call
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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 City is getting what it voted for, reduced funding, reduced staffing and more importantly, reduced pro-active policing. The City management and council is not behind the Police. They tolerate the Police and allow them to exist. The City Council of Chicago and the Mayor will throw them under the bus in an instant if someone bitches about their activities. The Police know this, so you get reactive Policing. When you make an officer personally liable and do not stand behind them when they have to make split second decisions…every day…this is what you get. The majority of Police officers… Read more »
I don’t think the thugs are afraid of petite policewomen.
We could do without this site’s constant bashing of the CPD. Thanks.
— a Chicago cop
Strange that you would say that. We rarely bash CPD; we think they are overwhelmed.
From what ive seen, this site backs the blue and good cops. If youre a Chicago cop PL, i would leave and go to a more favorable state that actually supports you. The Chicago politicians sure dont.
Hopefully some DNC delegates will experience some disfunction good and hard…..