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State Chapters => Illinois => Topic started by: mystery-ak on December 21, 2021, 03:54:07 pm
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Chicago mayor calls for federal help to fight violent crime
By Monique Beals - 12/21/21 08:41 AM EST
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) is calling for federal officials to help her curb gun violence in the city and target its root causes.
In a speech on Monday, Lightfoot urged U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to utilize agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to address illegal firearms and for more prosecutors to bring criminal cases, according to The Chicago Tribune.
“Keeping you safe is my priority — not one of, but the first and primary priority,” Lightfoot said to the citizens of Chicago. “I wake every morning with this as my first concern and I push myself and all involved to step up and do more and better because we cannot continue to endure the level of violence that we are now experiencing.”
The mayor also requested that judges in Cook County stop releasing people charged with violent crimes including murder, aggravated gun possession, sex crimes, illegal gun possession and kidnapping on electric monitoring, the Tribune noted.
The solutions proposed by Lightfoot, none of which are new strategies, were reportedly criticized as "regressive" and “clearly unconstitutional.”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/586706-chicago-mayor-calls-for-federal-help-to-fight-violent-crime
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So, Ms. Lightfoot - you screwed it up, and now you expect the rest of us to pay to fix it?
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Seems to me that Trump offered Beetlejuice federal aid and she not only turned him down but insulted him, oh how the worm has turned.
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Seems to me that Trump offered Beetlejuice federal aid and she not only turned him down but insulted him, oh how the worm has turned.
Yup.
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Chicago 911 Dispatcher Blows the Whistle on Mayor: 'All Hell Has Broken Loose'
By Abby Liebing, The Western Journal
December 28, 2021 at 2:35pm
According to a 911 dispatcher in Chicago, violent crime has gotten worse throughout the city, and he blames the city’s leadership and the citywide staffing shortages.
Keith Thornton told “Fox & Friends” that first responders are being overworked as a “massive” amount of crime is taking place in the city at “all hours of the day.”
“All hell has broken loose,” Thornton said. ...
However, Thornton blamed the leadership for violence throughout Chicago.
He noted that during the Trump administration, Lightfoot neither “acknowledged” nor “wanted” federal help to address the violence, Fox reported. ... Independent Journal Review (https://ijr.com/chicago-dispatcher-blows-whistle-mayor-all-hell-has-broken-loose/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ijr&utm_content=2021-12-31&utm_campaign=topweekly)
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Seems to me that Trump offered Beetlejuice federal aid and she not only turned him down but insulted him, oh how the worm has turned.
That she did
Now her constituents are paying the price
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Before her term is done, I predict Lightfoot has some kind of meltdown
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I'm sure Joe and Company will get things calmed down. *****rollingeyes*****
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I hope no help...till Karma eliminates lightfoot. Like don lemon, she is gay and has a white partner, while defending BLM. Supporting all thugs.