OldLady
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Chicago has always had a high gang-related crime rate--remember Prohibition? It must be something in the water.
But I think the reason the crime rate has gone up so rapidly this past year is much simpler than most of you think--it was when the Chief of Police was fired a year ago over the shooting of the 17 year old kid and the attempted cover up. You KNOW the Mayor told him to keep the lid on that shooting for political reasons, and when they couldn't keep the lid on any longer, the Mayor threw the Chief under the bus. When you pull the leader of such a tight knit organization as a police department, you have to be careful. They had the DOJ and 50 feel good social scientists telling them they were racist and there were people in the streets calling them pigs. And the Mayor was quietly nodding his head. The cops aren't on strike, but they're in trouble.
But I think the reason the crime rate has gone up so rapidly this past year is much simpler than most of you think--it was when the Chief of Police was fired a year ago over the shooting of the 17 year old kid and the attempted cover up. You KNOW the Mayor told him to keep the lid on that shooting for political reasons, and when they couldn't keep the lid on any longer, the Mayor threw the Chief under the bus. When you pull the leader of such a tight knit organization as a police department, you have to be careful. They had the DOJ and 50 feel good social scientists telling them they were racist and there were people in the streets calling them pigs. And the Mayor was quietly nodding his head. The cops aren't on strike, but they're in trouble.