Chicago: Where Guns – Not Gangs – Are Our Common Enemy
Some say we don’t do enough for the police. Others say we do too much. All of this must stop. We have a common enemy: it’s guns & the violence they bring. — Mayor Lori…
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THIS Time It Will Work: Lightfoot Throws Another $400 Million at Failed ‘Gun Violence Prevention’ Programs
The budget drafted by Lightfoot and approved by the City Council contains $411.6 million to implement “Our City, Our Safety.” $85 million on violence intervention, including victim services, street outreach and other violence reduction…
Citadel Hedge Fund Founder: ‘Chicago Is Like Afghanistan On a Good Day, and That’s a Problem’
In recent days, Chicago has taken a series of bad news gut punches in the national media. Alongside the revelation that Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx refused to charge five gang members caught on video…
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Wants to Reduce the City’s Skyrocketing Crime by Suing Gang Members
[Chicago Mayor Lori] Lightfoot said she’ll propose an ordinance Monday to allow the city’s lawyers to file such lawsuits [against gang members]. She said her proposed anti-gang ordinance isn’t her way of bypassing Cook…
Straw Purchaser of Gun Used to Kill a Chicago Cop is Released on an Unsecured Bond
On Sunday, Chicago Police Officer Ella French was shot and killed and her partner seriously wounded during a traffic stop. The gun used by the shooter was later traced back to an illegal straw purchase…
Chicago Police Superintendant: Shooting Victims Want Revenge, Not Arrests
Mass shootings, [social scientist Tom Scott] added, tend to lack “solvability factors,” including cooperative witnesses. “Agencies … prioritize cases they are most likely to solve,” Scott said. Yet law enforcement tends to respond to spiking…
The Failure of Lori Lightfoot’s Anti-Violence Plan is an Impenetrable Mystery
At a closed meeting with dozens of community groups late last month, [Chicago Mayor Lori] Lightfoot said progress was being made but acknowledged there was much more to be done. “I feel like we’re getting…
Summer of Love: Shootout Featuring Fully Automatic Gunfire on Chicago’s South Side Caught on Video
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has bigger concerns than the city’s notorious violent crime, gangs, and dead bodies. She declared another societal problem — racism — a public health crisis a couple of weeks ago and…
JUNETEENTH/FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND IN CHICAGO: 8 Murdered, 49 Wounded in America’s Largest Open-Air Range [VIDEO]
This weekend marked both the new federal holiday of Juneteenth as well as Father’s Day. Chicago gang bangers showed their usual reverence for life and the wellbeing of their fellow man by murdering nine and…
Three Dead, Three Wounded in Rockford, Illinois Bowling Alley Shooting, Suspect in Custody
Rockford police and other law enforcement agencies investigate the scene of a shooting at bowling alley Don Carter Lanes on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020, in Rockford, Ill. (Scott P. Yates/Rockford Register Star via AP) From…