Chicago’s rising violent crime: How to hold politicians and judges accountable? Connect the dots.--By John Kass
"Over the Labor Day weekend, the
people of Chicago will have two things on their minds:- What to grill.
- And how not to get killed.
Like that Sox fan driving home from a baseball game, getting caught between street gang crossfires on the expressway, with
more than 150 expressway shootings already this year, more than double since last year.
Or they might get shot off their porch.
Or stabbed in the neck in a bank lobby downtown or perhaps, murdered by some repeat violent offender waiting trial, out now on low or no bail or electronic home monitoring because the politicians showed him mercy.
Not mercy for you.
No mercy for the public.
But mercy for repeat violent offenders.That’s where we are now, facing the
consequences of those good liberal Democratic intentions that have helped pave Chicago’s Road to violent crime hell.Violent crime is
the number one issue in Chicago.
There is no other issue.
The city is suffering a 50 percent jump in murders compared to 2019, and thousands of shootings. Carjackings have tripled.
And all the media and political cheerleading about the wonders of the once-wonderful city won’t make people forget how they feel.
They feel afraid. And they have every reason to be.
Just the other night on the 400 block North State Street,
two men were beaten and robbed, slammed to the ground, and kicked, all of it recorded on that viral video so many are still talking about,
It’s all in that video reported by CWB Chicago, my go-to source for crime news.
The video CWB presented shows the merciless beating, and a group of women off the side twerked up a storm, working their pelvises while the beating victims are humiliated, robbed of their money, even their shoes.
It was horrific, the demons unleashed, like something out of Hieronymus Bosch.
But it wasn’t Bosch.
It wasn’t art.
It was real and happened on the 400 block of North State Street just a short stroll from what once was Chicago’s Magnificent Mile.
And things like this kill the city...Read all.