Theft reports are up 56%. Motor vehicle thefts are up 37%. Burglaries up 13%. Aggravated batteries and criminal sexual assaults are both up 12%. But not everything is horrible on the latest CompStat report. Murders were down 16% during the first 23 days of January compared to last year.
Crime and inflation will be determining issues come November. Not necessarily here in Illinois (Crook County), where the votes get counted after all the dead people vote in the middle of the night, but elsewhere across the country. Biden will do biblical damage between now and then, but the House will be red for a decade or more afterward. Blue state bailouts will be no more.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Crime and inflation will be determining issues come November. Not necessarily here in Illinois (Crook County), where the votes get counted after all the dead people vote in the middle of the night, but elsewhere across the country. Biden will do biblical damage between now and then, but the House will be red for a decade or more afterward. Blue state bailouts will be no more.