The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman took a look at Chicago’s wave of robberies in his “Best of the Web” column on Monday. He cited Wirepoints’ latest data on the city’s unanswered 911 calls which shows that Chicago victims can no longer count on prompt assistance.
Read the WSJ’s “Best of the Web” HERE (Scroll down for crime story)
Read more from Wirepoints:
- 225,000 priority 911 calls in Chicago go unanswered so far in 2023
- Distorting the crime stats during Congressman Jordan’s Chicago visit
- Walmart’s flight from Chicago: ‘Corporate racism?’ Or crime, taxes and dysfunction?
- Chicago criminals have green light to rob, loot, burgle as odds of punishment collapse to near zero.
- Spree of robberies, car thefts drive Chicago crime to new highs
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Illinois lost another 54,000 tax filers and dependents, net, according to the IRS. Since 2000, fleeing taxpayers have taken $94 billion of annual adjusted gross income with them.
Dial 911 when your butt is getting beat, No cops to send, ain’t that sweet. Where are they at and no one knows, Crime is up and it really shows. Police stations filled with border sneakers, Bugs and disease jeepers creepers. Spending cash from lots of tax, Give us more that’s all we ask. Gangs and drugs from criminal cartels, Flooding the city ain’t that swell. The city and state and maybe the nation On the slope to total ruination. Hopes and dreams about to be shattered, Politicians say it doesn’t matter. Change is needed really quick, Throw the democrats… Read more »
Budget plans to eliminate 800 positions in the CPD that is already short about 1200 budgeted positions. Rumors swirling that 300 to 400 retirements in January. Dial 911 for police, now that’s funny.
Public Enemy – 911 Is A Joke (Official Music Video) (1990) [Verse 1: Flavor Flav] Now I dialed 911 a long time ago Don’t you see how late they’re reacting? They only come and they come when they wanna So get the morgue truck and embalm the goner They don’t care ’cause they stay paid anyway They treat you like an ace that can’t beat a trey A no-use number with no-use people If your life is on the line then you’re dead today Latecomers with the late coming stretcher That’s a body bag in disguise y’all, I’ll betcha I… Read more »
And people with the mentality of rappers are the ones out there throwing rocks and empty liquor bottles at the police when they do show up to do their jobs. Sorry “underserved “ , you bring this upon yourselves every day. Read the Chicago Cop blog to get the vibe of some of the men and women in blue. Defund them, demonize them and make them have to call three supervisors, a social worker and fill out a stack of paperwork that would choke a horse for a traffic ticket and then wonder why there are delayed or unanswered calls,… Read more »
Like I repeatedly point out, Nigeria, Venezuela and South Africa have some of the low incarceration rates (35, 199 and 250 per 100,000 compared to the US at 531).
But they have some of the highest murder rates in the world (21.7, 19.3, and 41.9 compared to the US at 6.8).
The people pushing the defund the police movement want to live in chaos, anarchy and third world hellholes. This is how they want to live.
Bu..bu..but empty prisons are good for everyone! No, that just means that there are a lot of violent offenders running around unchecked. Try selling that to Raoul, Preckwinkle and the like that have figured out empty prisons translate to money being diverted to useless social programs that everyone along that river of taxpayers money gets a gulp or two of. The ones that pushed abolition of police departments ( looking at you DePaul) are now crying because their underserved pals are now kicking their a—es up and down the block robbing them ( with the occasional beating thrown in for… Read more »
Good for Wirepoints. Funny how the WSJ never quotes the Tribune, The SunTimes or any other Chicago media. I wonder if it could be that all those traditional Chicago media outlets just aren’t worth a damn any longer as news sources.
And funny how those traditional outlets in Illinois never quote us.