Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago: 750+ Killed So Far This Year
Over 750 people have been killed thus far in 2021 in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago, and there are still three weeks left in the year.
On December 9, 2021, the Chicago Sun-Times reported a total of 754 homicides in the city.
ABC News noted that Chicago already had 739 homicides when November 2021 came to a close, and those 739 killings were “up 3% from 2020.”
On December 31, 2020, the Sun-Times reported 774 murders in Chicago during 2020 and observed that those killings represented “an increase of more than 50% from the 506 murders in 2019.”
At the current pace, Lightfoot’s Chicago could reach or even surpass the number of homicides committed in 2020.
On December 8, 2021, ABC News pointed to 12 cities that have seen homicides hit record highs this year:
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Austin, Texas
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Columbus, Ohio
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Portland, Oregon
- Rochester, New York
- St. Paul, Minnesota
- Toledo, Ohio
- Tucson, Arizona
ABC News did not mention that the 12 cities breaking homicide records are all Democrat-controlled.
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I’d like to be able to say “only in Chicago,” which seems to have become the world capital of street crime, but alas, “criminal justice reform” runs rampant – as do criminals, even those convicted of felonies.
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WATCH: Ulta Beauty Ransacked During Store Hours in Chicago
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HOW MUCH DOES BLACK MOB LOOTING COST AMERICA? HOW PAYS? NOT BLACK AMERICA!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/mob-looting-new-black-sport-what-is.html
Over a dozen vehicles pulled up to the Broadway Plaza shopping mall. Some eighty vandals, some wielding crowbars, ran inside Nordstrom and stole merchandise. Five Nordstrom employees were physically assaulted.
The action was said to be over in less than a minute. With their bounty in hand, estimated at $200,000, the thieves drove off in different directions. Only three were apprehended. Of those, one was illegally carrying a firearm.
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Brazen, Serial Shoplifter Appears In Court As DA Vows To Crack Down On Retail Thefts
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Busting an Organized Shoplifting Ring
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Major Arrest In $1 Million Apple Store Thefts
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Apple Store Robbery Suspects Arrested
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Nolte: Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blames Chicago Retailers for Not Fighting Crime
Victim-blaming Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D-Incompetent) blames retailers for the recent rash of organized retail thefts.
“Some of the retailers downtown in Michigan Avenue, I will tell you, I’m disappointed that they are not doing more to take safety and make it a priority,” Lightfoot said. “For example, we still have retailers that won’t institute plans like having security officers in their stores. Making sure that they’ve got cameras that are actually operational, locking up their merchandise at night, chaining high-end bags.”
Here’s my favorite part: “These purses seem to be something that is attracting a lot of organized retail theft units.”
So if I’m correctly interpreting this, the retail smash-and-grab epidemic is not the fault of the Democrats who run Chicago’s government as an unopposed monopoly. Instead, it is retailers’ fault, so they must now 1) create a private police force, 2) lock up all their merchandise, and 3) stop attracting crime with all their fancy merchandise.
The government’s number-one job, the government’s highest priority, is supposed to be protecting the God-given rights of its citizens. That’s it. That’s job number one. And here’s failed Mayor Lightfoot blaming the victim for her own indifference and incompetence.
One of the great truths of criminal justice is that you don’t have to lock up a whole lot of people to decrease the crime rate. All you have to do is lock up the right people. A tiny part of the population is committing most of the crimes, and once they are locked up, the crime rate plummets. In other words, if you increase the incarceration rates by, say, five percent, and those are the correct five percent, you can decrease the crime rate by 20 or 25 percent.
But Democrats are letting everyone go. No matter how awful the crime or how unrepentant the criminal is, these criminals are still released to prey on the innocent.
I’m not saying retailers don’t have a certain responsibility to protect themselves. We all have a certain responsibility to discourage criminality, to not be victims. But Lightfoot is calling for retailers to chain up the high-end merchandise and increase the size of their private police forces. That’s nuts. If you want to sell something, especially something like a high-end purse, people need to touch it, hold it, feel it, carry it… Women want to know what that looks like slung over their shoulders.
The cops aren’t the problem. The cops know who these godforsaken thieves are. The cops have almost certainly arrested most of these punks. The problem is Democrats. Democrats continue to let these recidivist criminals loose. Democrats continue to empty the prisons and eliminate bail. And nothing in the world encourages criminality more than a lack of consequence for criminality. If you remove the consequences, you are essentially legalizing criminal behavior.
The effects of this can be seen everywhere, not just in Chicago and not just retail theft.
Twelve American cities, each governed by Democrats, have broken their own homicide records. This is not an accident or a coincidence.
They told us criminal justice reform was about giving non-violent offenders another chance. I’m all for that. But Democrats just opened up the jails and let everyone out.
The good news is that this cannot stand. Only blight can follow. Crime destroys cities faster than anything. There is not even a close second place. Stores close. Jobs are lost. Good people of all skin colors move. All that’s left are vacancies and rental units, and overpriced convenient stores where everything is locked up.
The Democrat Party will be wiped out in 2022.
And I can’t wait.
As convenience store closes due to theft, desperate Chicago residents launch letter campaign asking political leaders to punish offenders
Residents of Wicker Park, a Chicago neighborhood with enough cachet to have a major mystery movie named after it, are worried about the closing of their local convenience store due to unsustainable levels of shoplifting. It is already too late for their 7-11 – its owner is closing and there is a Walgreens nearby that they fear for.
They seem to see the possibility that the expression “food deserts,” referring to urban neighborhoods that lack supermarkets or other venues to buy nourishing food, will soon be replaced by “retail deserts” (my expression) where there are no stores to buy anything. As a result, a local activist has launched a postcard writing campaign to their alderman and especially Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and Chief Judge Timothy Evans, urging a crackdown on looters and thieves. CWB Chicago reports:
A long-time community activist in Wicker Park and Bucktown hopes neighbors will get involved in a letter-writing campaign to Cook County leaders as a neighborhood convenience store prepared to close its doors for good.
“The 7-Eleven at 1658 North Milwaukee is closing permanent after being pilfered daily by shoplifters the last year,” Steve Jensen said in a Facebook group post over the weekend. “We fear the Walgreens at 1601 North Milwaukee is next.” (snip)
Jensen told us that the staff told him theft was the reason for the store’s closure. He encouraged neighbors to pick up postcards from some local businesses and an alderman’s office to contact local leaders, especially Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and Chief Judge Timothy Evans, about what’s happening.
“We cannot bear more empty storefronts,” Jensen said on Facebook.
In a crisp “how-to” guide, Jensen provided neighbors with some pointers for effective letter-writing.
“Be sure to describe your personal experience(s) while living in the neighborhood pertaining to your safety. If you are a business owner, explain how it’s affecting your business.”
Here is a picture supplied to CWBChicago of the empty store shelves as the 7-11 prepares to close.
This letter-writing campaign is a classic move in a democratic society and is to be applauded. But what a shame that citizens must plead with their government to enforce basic laws already on the books.
Fortunately, at least one local judge has gotten the message and is applying reasonable bail to recidivists. Another CWBChicago story:
Jaheim Jackson smiled widely for his mugshot as police officers booked him for allegedly participating in a mob shoplifting raid on an Ulta Beauty store in Lakeview last week. A judge allowed him to go home by posting a $500 deposit in that case, which involved allegations of taking $8,500 worth of fragrances.
Cops arrested Jackson again late last week after investigators connected him to a similar raid on an Ulta store in suburban Berwyn two months ago.
While his bond court hearing on Saturday did not provide images of Jackson’s face, he sure didn’t sound like he was smiling as a different judge slammed him with a much higher bail.
“The alleged value of the goods that were taken was $2,865,” Judge Maryam Ahmad said after hearing allegations about the Berwyn case. “With that amount in mind, bail is set in the amount of $30,000-D.”
“That’s … That’s $3,000?” Jackson stammered in a stunned tone.
“You need $3,000 to be released from custody, Mr. Jackson,” the judge confirmed. A so-called “D bond” requires a 10% deposit for release.
“I’m not going to be able to be bonded out!” Jackson whined.
“You need $3,000 to be released from custody, Mr. Jackson,” Ahmad repeated as she asked prosecutors to name Jackson’s next court date.
Brava, Judge Ahmad!
Hat tip: Peter von Buol
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Heather Mac Donald: ‘Savage’ Crimes No Longer Have Consequences — Civilization ‘Breaking Down’ in ‘Slow-Motion’
Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and among the nation’s foremost statisticians of crime, blasted current criminal justice reform policies which signal to criminals that even “appalling, savage” crimes have no consequences, calling the narrative of minorities under threat from police in America a “completely false” one perpetuated by the Biden administration and the media, while warning that “civilization is breaking down” as the country undergoes a “slow-motion riot.”
In an interview with Steve Malzberg on his weekly commentary show Eat the Press, Mac Donald, who is also a New York Times best-selling author, addressed the rise in officers killed this year which exceeded those killed in any other year.
“Anti-Cop Mania”
Asked if the current crime surge is the result of the “post-George Floyd anti-cop mania” fueled by the media, Mac Donald replied, “Of course it is.”
“We are living through a slow-motion riot,” she said.
She then noted the “message” criminals perceive as a result of the lack of repercussions.
“Whether it’s attacks on officers or attacks on property, criminals have gotten the message that there is no consequence for the most appalling savage behavior when they’re going after cops,” she said.
Mac Donald also lamented the “assault[s]” law enforcement experience in the U.S. today.
“I can tell you across the country in the United States today, when cops get out of their car to make an inquiry, to question somebody who’s acting like he’s pulling up his gun out of his waistband, to go into a drug set, they find themselves routinely surrounded by hostile jeering crowds throwing things at them,” she said. “They’re assaulted.”
“This is what it’s like to be a cop in America today,” she added.
Citing how cops “can’t take it any longer” as they are “gunned down and ambushed,” she claimed cops are “leaving the profession in droves” in what she called the “Ferguson effect.”
”Officers are backing off under this phony narrative of racism and criminals are emboldened and they are controlling the streets,” she added. “Civilization is breaking down in this country.”
According to the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), 314 officers have been shot so far this year, with 58 officers killed by gunfire.
Blasting the “false” narrative repeated by the Biden administration and mainstream media that black people “are under threat from the police in this country,” Mac Donald sought to portray the numbers in perspective.
“When you compare the 58 dead officers to the number of officers in the country — which is about 675,000 — and then let’s look at how many unarmed blacks have been fatally shot by a police officer this year: four… of about 40 million blacks,” she said. “That makes a police officer in the United States at least 375 times [more] likely to be killed by a black person in America as an unarmed black is to be killed by a cop.”
Culpability of the Left
Mac Donald blamed the left for depicting crime as fictional.
“The left thinks that crime is a racist fiction,” she said, “[and] that it’s just a creation of the deranged Trumpian imagination.”
Claiming the criminal justice system today is “all about disparate impact,” she warned that safety would not return “unless we confront this conceit head on and completely dismiss it.”
“The reason that prosecutors are not setting bail… that they’re refusing to prosecute theft, shoplifting, resisting arrest, assaults on officers, disorderly conduct, drug dealing… [that] you have police chiefs… telling their officers to back off from ‘stop, question and frisk’ — is because every law enforcement practice has a disparate impact on blacks,” she said.
“That’s not because law enforcement is racist,” she added. “It’s because there is a much, much higher rate of criminal offending among blacks than among whites.”
The reason for the lack of enforcement of the law, according to Mac Donald, is because prosecutors “have decided they don’t want to put more blacks in prison.”
“They don’t want to hold blacks pre-trial even though they’re a clear threat,” she said, calling to “stop doing that and say that ‘no, our criminal justice system is not racist, yes there are more blacks in prison but that is because their homicide rates are like 13 times the rate of whites.’”
“You cannot enforce the law in a colorblind fashion without having a disparate impact on blacks,” she added.
She also slammed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which “doesn’t give a damn about the fact that there were over four dozen black children fatally gunned down in drive-by shootings last year.”
The COVID Pandemic as an Excuse
Asked about White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s suggestion last week that the COVID-19 pandemic is “a root cause” of recent organized looting incidents across the country, Mac Donald called it both “hilarious” and “insane.”
“The reason is not COVID, it’s de-policing,” she said. “It’s what I’ve called the ‘Ferguson effect.’”
Claiming “the facts are completely wrong,” Mac Donald noted that “crime was going down in this country in the first part of 2020” and only increased “after the George Floyd riots” and only “in the United States.”
“Every other country in the world that had the lockdowns — that had the insane hysteria — crime went down; violent crime went down,” she explained.
“The United States is the only place to see what we saw last year — which was the largest single percentage increase in history — in this nation’s history — in homicides,” she added. “We’re the only ones that saw it.”
Wisconsin Christmas Parade Attack
On the release of Darrell Brooks on $1,000 bail for allegedly running over the mother of his child in the days leading up to his attack on a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last month, which left six people dead and another 62 injured, Mac Donald claimed it was “the reason that [Milwaukee County District Attorney] John Chisholm — who’s one of the early progressive prosecutors — is not imposing bail.”
“The reason he’s letting criminals out is because of disparate impact,” she added. “He says it.”
Addressing the lack of media coverage of the parade attack and the perpetrator once the latter was identified as a black male, Mac Donald said “America turns its eyes away from inner-city dysfunction.”
“We’re terrified of it,” she added. “We’re terrified it’s not going to end.”
According to Mac Donald, due to “racial equity,” liberal DAs in major cities “don’t want to put more blacks in prison — even if they have assaulted their girlfriend, run over their girlfriend, use guns.”
As a result, she claimed, crime has skyrocketed.
“We’re seeing these hordes looting stores; we’re seeing real domestic terrorism…. not the phony white nationalist kind that is a fiction of… the Biden White House, the Attorney General and the mainstream media,” she said.
Crime Surge
Blasting current policies for producing such spikes in crime, Mac Donald, who is known for her research on the effects of criminal justice reform, argued that law enforcement was the key.
“We [must] say we are going to enforce the law, and the consequences are what they are, and the solution for black crime is to reknit the family, it is not to let criminals out on the streets where they’re going to prey first of all on law-abiding blacks,” she said.
“The solution right now is law enforcement,” she continued. “It’s all we’ve got and the government has its primary responsibility to protect not just life but property.”
“When stores cannot operate and entrepreneurs cannot put their goods into commerce, there is no civilization left,” she added.
Blasting “one excuse after another” for minority crimes, Mac Donald said the “refusal to hold minorities to standards of personal responsibility and respect for the law” is what “breeds” more of it.
“It’s double standards in our society and we are paying the price in our lives,” she said.
“Carjacking’s are out of control — they’re coming to a suburb near you,” she added. “People are being dragged to death as a result of a carjacking.”
She also warned “the thefts are coming” as well.
“These flash mobs are stripping these stores blind but [now] they’re carrying guns,” she said. “And you know who’s going to go to a store — a Best Buy — at this point with the risk of these sorts of mass assaults?”
“And who knows if they will start using their guns?” she concluded.
Mac Donald’s remarks come as the U.S. witnesses a continuing rise in violent crime nationwide.
The statistics cited in a City Journal piece this month describe “the largest rate of increase in homicides recorded in modern history”:
Murder rose 29 percent from 2019 to 2020, surpassing the previous record 12.7 percent spike from 1967 to 1968. Unsurprisingly, the victims of the latest surge in violence were not equally distributed across racial groups. The rise in black homicide victims from 2019 to 2020 was almost twice as big as the rise in white victims (28 percent versus 16 percent).
In October, “Squad” member and Defund the Police sympathizer Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) blamed Minnesota’s crime surge on the “dysfunctional police department” that has “chosen to not fulfill their oath of office.”
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