Wirepoints’ research on Chicago’s ongoing crime wave was cited by Ben Shapiro as one of the reasons why Lori Lightfoot lost her job as Chicago’s mayor last night.
“The real reason that Lori Lightfoot is no longer going to be the mayor of Chicago is because she was a terrible mayor…she happened to do nothing about the massive crime problems inside the city. In fact, according to Wirepoints.org, Chicago’s homicide rate is about 5 times higher than that of New York City and 2.5 times higher than Los Angeles’s…”
Read more from Wirepoints:
- So much for Chicago transit’s ‘anti-crime’ initiatives. 2022’s violent crime exceeded 2019, despite 46% plunge in riders
- Chicagoans are shooting back – and it’s not going to stop until leaders lead
- Chicago’s pursuit of ‘criminal justice reform’ an utter failure: Windy City homicides top nation for 11th year in a row with crime still rising.
- Chicago, New Orleans were the nation’s murder capitals in 2022 – A Wirepoints survey of America’s 75 largest cities
- Never mind last year’s 41% crime spike in Chicago. It’s up again another 55% this year.
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Lori’s secret plan was to allow murderers to run wild with the objective;if everyone in Chicago was a murderer, it would be a more homogenous population. Everyone would get along! Thanks Lori; You Dope!
National media- congratulations!
Revealing the failures of the elected Chicago/Cook County politicians just falls on the deaf ears of the loyal democrat voters. To them all of the facts and statistics are a bunch of baloney promoted by evil Republicans. They, Chicago/Cook County voters, are just insanely stupid.
crime is raising every year and going to get much worse. No stopping it now. The honest hard-working families are leaving ASAP. Only criminals will be left in due time.
Being Kim Foxx will not prosecute offenders and the new no cash bail situation regardless of who is in how can incidents of crime be expected to drop? Be realistic, what can the Captain of a mechanically decimated ship do to stop the ship’s sinking?
Be realistic as Kim Foxx and Kwame Raoul, both duly elected, assure that the crime rates will continue to escalate. Like it or not, that’s the way it is.
The law allows Chicago to prosecute its own cases through the Cook County courts although it never does. The city would have to set up its own infrastructure of attorneys to prosecute its own cases. Not sure if that’s the route they would go or not.
We can all agree that Lori was of no help in reducing crime but a real turn around will require Lil Kim to be shown the door too.
Oops, I forgot Timmy Evans also.
Don’t be surprised if Chicago goes with someone even worse than Lightfoot in April. I know, that’s hard to fathom, but never underestimate Chicago voters. Regardless, well done Wirepoints.
I agree with you 100%
The murder rate in specific neighborhoods are to be some of the highest in the world while others are comparable to western europe.
I’m so glad to see so much national coverage of your work lately Wirepoints. You have been all over the place lately. You deserve it.
However, don’t forget Lori also had a secret plan that was working just fine.
Great Job Wirepoints!