Crime vs. Law & Order
Pritzker and other Radicals coddle criminals, presenting a stark choice for citizens.
Far too many American streets descend into violence and criminal recklessness. The carnage is most alarming in large and historically mismanaged blue cities, but the calamity spreads into urban areas previously considered safe and into suburbs as well.
Looking at the numbers, the nationwide murder rate exploded during the lockdowns – but then increased yet again in 2021. Now, the pace of homicides shows no material 2022 downtick, “threatening to become the new baseline,” according to The Economist which details the “largest increase in over a century” for killings.
In Illinois the mayhem intensifies due to a feckless governor, a radical Chicago mayor, and a Soros-backed, corrupt Cook County prosecutor. This unholy trinity of criminal-coddling politicians - J.B. Pritzker, Lori Lightfoot, and Kim Foxx – creates a crisis for suffering citizens and demoralized police.
Consider the street-level consequences for Chicago. For example, in the pre-lockdown year of 2019, Chicago saw 490 murders. A terrible number, to be sure, but at that time an improvement over prior years and a seemingly reasonable number compared to last year. In 2021, the city endured a staggering 800 homicides, a ghastly 25 year record.
Aside from the terrible body count of corpses (most of them young black males), the broader misery for regular citizens ratchets far higher under the failed leadership of windbag politicians. For example, a carjacking epidemic intensifies in Chicago. In 2014, the city saw 303 vehicular hijackings. This year, per analysis from Wirepoints, the Windy City is on pace to suffer from 1,904 such terrifying acts of violence, the most ever on record. Six times as many Chicagoans being violently kidnapped or ejected from their cars.
Of course, suburbanites should not rest easy either, as city violence increasingly invades surrounding areas as well. For example, just weeks ago in upscale Naperville, a police officer was randomly attacked by an axe-wielding would-be assassin. Thankfully, the officer’s quick response neutralized the perpetrator, captured in a video that went viral. Then, only days later, three men in ski masks robbed a nearby gas station at gunpoint – in the bucolic, white-picket-fence suburb of Naperville.
Clearly, no one is safe in Pritzker’s Illinois and the already awful predicament is about to grow into as all-out street crisis as J.B.’s new law takes effect in a few months that will eliminate bail requirements for even super violent criminals, placing citizens and cops at the mercy of dangerous cretins charged with the most serious offenses possible.
Pritzker’s radical new law deservedly draws national scorn. The New York Post ran the headline “Illinois’ No Cash Bail Law Will Turn the State into the Purge.” Starting in just a few months on January 1, 2023, those charged with second degree murder, kidnapping, and arson will be released without posting bail. In the name of so-called “equity,” the propaganda-titled Pritzker “SAFE-T Act” will create untold dangers for innocent civilians, crime witnesses, and cops.
Unsurprisingly, downstate prosecutors, who do not share Kim Foxx’s radical notions about crime and punishment, are aghast at this pro-criminal agenda. Several joined together and assailed this radical new law, writing in the Chicago Tribune that it “makes it significantly harder for our criminal justice system to get repeat violent offenders off the streets and behind bars.”
For a preview into the dangers faced statewide, consider the fallout from Cook County’s bail leniency. So far this year, a total of 38 assailants have either killed or tried to kill Chicagoans while out on bail for pending felony charges, per crime watchdog CWB Chicago. The latest such tragedy just this weekend involved a 12-year-old boy shot in the head at a family birthday party by Isaiah Renteria, shown here.
Renteria had been arrested and charged with felony Class X weapons charges previously, but he was released by a progressive Chicago judge on only $1,000 bail with no electronic monitoring. After the child was shot, Renteria and his accomplice led police on a 100-mph car chase before being arrested in the upscale suburb of LaGrange.
The boy lived but is in critical condition. Tragically, the radicalism of politicians like J.B. Pritzker will put more such innocent lives in danger.
I'm not sure even my heroes of the MAGA Movement understand how dangerous a Marxist prosecution system is to the future of this country. All the words coming out of AOC's mouth every minute of every day of every year [I don't know what that adds up to ...but...lets agree it's an impressive number] don't do nearly as much damage to the American people's day to day lives as ONE county laboring under a Marxist Prosecutor. If the Marxist Left controls a County's District Attorney, the City Attorney and the Grand Jury Foreman, they call all the shots. Revolutionaries are not prosecuted, law abiding gun owners are. Private property is not protected, vandals are. Businesses are not protected, looters are.
The reason so much moola is being poured into District Attorney races in major metropolitan areas is the Left realizes that's the shortest path to bringing down the Constitutional system they despise. They don't have to do another thing. They don't need the Constitutional Amendments they could never get, they don't need to control the Senate or even the Presidency ---they can burn down the whole thing just fine from the District Attorney's Office. All they need are useful idiot voters who fall for the line about "bringing compassion" into the D. A's Office.
Voters need to pay attention in these races. Vote for candidates who pledge to work with, not against, law enforcement agencies ...those who promise to enforce the law without prejudice or favor.
[May I make a parenthetical remark? I may? Oh, thank you. It occurred to me Garland's argument for the raid on Trump's home boils down to, "Trump didn't put his initials or paste a gold star on the papers he claims he declassified ---therefore there exists no proof he wanted them declassified." In property law it's well recognized that a person buying into a housing development with mutual restrictions on homeowners' rights to, say, place a fence around their front yard is on notice of those
restrictions simply by entering the development. In other words...a housing scheme, by & of itself, equals notice of scheme. There needn't be a big sign saying, "no fences around front yard, please!" In Trump's case possession of documents equals declassification. Trump's act of possessing the documents is all the proof Justice needs that Trump chose to declassify the documents he kept---he didn't have to signal his intention with kindergarten gold stars].
This reminds me of the 1980’s film “Robocop”, i.e., that will be the future for urban cities under Democratic leadership.