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The city’s new mayor attributes shootings to the ‘trauma’ of disinvestment. “Poverty didn’t go away over the weekend,” Mr. Johnson said. “Communities have been disinvested in and traumatized” and “you are seeing the manifestation of that trauma.” Yes, he actually said that, which goes a long to explaining why gunmen patrol the streets with impunity.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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Disinvestment? Nope, Mayor Johnson. Time for newly-minted Mayor Johnson to quit the platitudes, and squarely point finger at REAL problem: amoral folks intentionally harming other people, enabled by woke politics and lax criminal law enforcement. Violent crime, property crime, white-collar crime, all the same, still crime; it’s not “reparations” and it’s not “disinvestment in our POC communities”. It’s crime done by criminals. A gun-toting teen menacing folks is still a criminal. Mayor Johnson must quickly change his rhetoric; it’s a bloodbath here. Actual competent municipal governance is urgently needed, not more political theatre and woke signaling, not more feather-bedding deputy… Read more »
Disinvestment, blah blah blah; salted with a little systemic racism. Blacks murdering blacks sounds like disinvestment to me……No, it’s Lori’s second term, the same tired nonsense. We’re ninnocent, it’s your fault!. Billions have been invested and the results? Crickets!
Nothin new here. This was normal and completely predictable. “the manifestation of truma”…. Wow. Just like Lightfoot, this guy isn’t smart enough to to even see a progressive solution. One where, you stop the bleeding of crime and re-establish safety and law and order, then move on to the much more difficult job of addressing their Root Cause excuse. Society and law and order have to win…otherwise you have this and worse. Lets all hold hands and sing kumbaya…that has an much chance of impacting crime as the mayors plan and costs less.
I heard someone say when it comes to certain situations “its not about skin color but rather about culture.” Something to think about isn’t it?
Disinvestment to me means companies leaving such as WalMart, Walgreens, Target, etc. as well as big companies such as Boeing and Citadel. And why are they leaving? Crime. Johnson has it backwards, crime causes disinvestment, not the other way around. Eliminate crime, then comes reinvestment. But, none of them, Foxx, Evans, Preckwinkle, are willing to do what is necessary to eliminate crime, long sentences for gun crimes, prosecute shoplifters, bail, support for police,and so on.
This myth that shoplifters are just trying to get by is a joke. Most of them are professionals. All Brandon would need to do is put in jail 500 or so serial offenders and the problem would take care of itself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyregion/shoplifting-arrests-nyc.html
Heard a Millennial state that shoplifters only steal necessities.
Wake up, doofus! Hordes of people descending on a drugstore aren’t stealing toothbrushes and toothpaste.
It’s criminal and if BJ and the crime enablers don’t crack down soon, the “silly” decisions will continue … as will the exodus of tax paying citizens.
Then who’s gonna pay the tab?
Stupid chickens.
Yup, toothpaste from Macy’s on State Street. At least Macy’s is calling the cops.
https://cwbchicago.com/2023/04/chicago-shoplifting-statistics-one-third-repeat-offenders-macys-most-often.html
The biggest mystery story NOBODY at city hall or press is talking about is what’s happening to the COVID funded $400M Lightfoot set aside for anti-violence programs but has apparently only spent a fraction of????? (Are those funds being diverted else where–to are CTU heros? migrants?, etc?)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/02/20/big-talk-slow-progress-from-mayor-lightfoot-on-anti-violence-programs/
I have always wondered what the phrase “disinvestment ” means. The suggestion is that capitalists won’t spend enough investing in neighborhoods. But invest in what? More retail? There’s no money in it for an operator and theft is out of control. Residential? There is no one to pay the rent and the condition of affordable and subsidized housing deteriorates rapidly. Office space? Who are the tenants and are there educated and qualified employees in those neighborhoods? No there are not. More parks? Not sure what that accomplishes for the economic benefit of the folks in the hood. So what exactly… Read more »
Disinvestment means that capitalists used to investment money in the neighborhood, but disinvested when white flight turned the neighborhoods black many decades ago. And then the riots came and little has been rebuilt since. Those 1968 riots that turned your grandfather’s Roseland into the murder capital of Chicago for 50 years is the disinvestment they are talking about.
Well, Mayor Greybeard Pointy Head just failed his first challenge. Chiraq is very likely to set a murder and shooting record this year under this union screamer masquerading as a leader.
Wait till July 4 when shootings will hit triple digits
The new mayors across the street neighbor just beat a female acquaintance to death and dumped her body in the alley across the street from the mayors house. I wonder who the neighbor voted for?
Street murders in Lakeview.
I am SO f*cking tired of see the word “trauma”, in this context used to excuse anti -social behaviors… this imbecile “mayor” sounds like an imbecile “social worker”…
Uh, isn’t that what the CTU promoted their leader as?
Well, as the WSJ noted, Chicago’s getting exactly the sort of crime fighting mayor they elected.
Which is to say the mayor that about 15% of Chicago’s eligible voters picked. 15% of them voted for a different Democrat, and 60%+ of them didn’t vote for anyone at all.
I’d say Chicago’s in a world of hurt, and not likely to get better anytime soon.
I didn’t elect this guy. He barely won. I’m doing my best to reverse the demoralization and other strategies that dissuade people from taking action.
All the subversive comments people are stuffing in the chat have real consequences. If you read that “nothing will change” or that “we’ll never win” enough times, eventually you start believing it and disengage.
Keep your heads up and keep fighting.
https://medium.com/@geraldfarinas/big-bill-the-last-republican-mayor-of-chicago-59ba06a431cc
Big Bill, the last Republican mayor of Chicago
William Hale Thompsom was mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923, and again from 1927 to 1931. He was the last Republican to hold the office.
What’s your point with the worthless factoid? Eventually, the Cubs won the World Series after a big losing streak. Nobody thought that would ever happen.
The Cubs are currently 24-30-0, 4th place. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
You should watch HBO’s The Wire. It’s an oldie, but a goodie, it perfectly encapsulates the fatalism big cities have these days.
Like when disinvestment created ghost towns. They all shot themselves up, right?
the biggest community “disinvest-ers” by a couple million light years are your city, cc & state gov (CPS/CTU, CPD/FOP, Street & San,,,etc) who deliver CRAPPY services at $astronomical$ prices performed by your guaranteed upper-income/pension public sec heroes who don’t live in those disinvested communities. Which nobody in progressive pol, press or academia would ever admit to.
I can’t agree more. There’s an entire financial pyramid full of graft and disinvestment (whatever this means) for people that are at least motivated enough to scam others and kick back to the top. And if you’re too lazy to scam, I watched Democrats build a system over the past few years that pays to stay home and not even bother looking for a job! Does Brandon have a word for that?
I can’t find this quote anywhere but the WSJ. If this quote is real, the compassionate social mentor bit part he’s acting out is a joke! Johnson’s statements are the equivalent of psychological malpractice. Any legitimate body would revoke his license if he made these statements in a professional capacity. Can you imagine a marriage counselor telling their clients: “Well, beatings don’t stop overnight…. What you’re experiencing is the manifestation of trauma.” The correct way to address these shootings it is to condemn violence and crime! Instead, he’s arguing that behavior is somewhat rational based on collective perception of the… Read more »
ABC Chicago has the quote, too: https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-memorial-day-weekend-shootings-shooting-crime-crimes/13318549/
Thanks. I really wanted to make sure that we all got this one right. This is going to haunt him for the rest of his term.
He’s just telling his voters what they want to hear. They’re not individually responsible for their behavior because society made them do it. This is the newest thinking in progressive circles. I’m not making this up, this is the next groundbreaking idea in the slowly bending arc towards justice. This is best shown by someone as stupid as Barbara Fried, the mother of FTX criminal mastermind Sam Bankman-Fried, in 2013, wrote an article published in the in Boston Review called, “Beyond Blame: The philosophy of personal responsibility has ruined criminal justice and economic policy. It’s time to move past blame.”… Read more »
I’m too busy to play the reframing game with you today. As usual, you’re wrong and part of the problem with your relentless and intimidating presentations of state power.
You don’t have to play word games with me. I’m not really even speaking directly to you, I’m just commenting in general to your points. You make interesting points, and I add too them, or I disagree with them. Take it as you will, but hopefully someone, instead of saying “How can these people say such a thing!”
I will invite them into the strange world of the progressive intelligencia that has outsized influence in our politics today.
Who among us hasn’t spent a weekend shooting at our neighbors?
One of your finest, debtsor.
Chortle x 20
Brandon says that they was just some kids funnin.
When gaurenteeted $multi-millionaire$ pension for teaching for 4 years, fake-progressive, equity hustler, CTU/BRANDON writes—““Poverty didn’t go away over the weekend,” Mr. Johnson said. “Communities have been disinvested in and traumatized” and “you are seeing the manifestation of that trauma.””. Make no mistake, he’s telling us chumbalone taxpayers it’s ARE FAULT!!, we’re not paying enough, we are the problem, we are the disinvesters….UNBALIVABLE SICKENING HYPOCRISY!!!!