Lightfoot: Chicago making progress on fighting crime despite continued downtown violence – Chicago Sun-Times*

Asked about Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who has said the police department should concentrate on arresting people for violent crimes instead of gun possession, Lightfoot said, “Anyone who says that we are wasting, CPD is wasting its time arresting people for mere gun possession, tell that to the victims that I talk to who are destroyed by gun violence.”
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Pat S.
4 years ago

Has she actually talked with any of the victims?

I doubt it.

Had she talked or visited with the victims’ families it would have made headlines.

Giddyap
4 years ago

Larry Lightfoot is now “redefining progress.”

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