Historic: Chicago Manages to Somehow Elect Mayor Crazier Than Lori Lightfoot

Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot may have suffered a humiliating loss in the Chicago Democrat primary, but it’s looking like personality may have played a much larger role in that over policy.

As the city grapples with violent crime, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson will be implementing more of the same pro-criminal policies that will fuel more of it. 

In speaking to CBS this morning about his victory, Johnson outlined his plans to implement more cartoonish progressive policies that will succeed only in incinerating taxpayer dollars. While serving a plate of word salad to the audience, Johnson attempted to explain how “critical investments” are the “necessary dynamics” to prevent crime.

So in his mind, police may not reduce crime, but whatever “necessary dynamics” are do. 

He also pitched “investing in people,” citing a correlation between youth employment and violence reduction, with no explanation of what specifically he’d spend money on. 

And while, all variables held constant, employment certainly reduces crime, it’s not a big enough factor to show up in the data in Chicago. Chicago’s homicide rate throughout the financial crisis of 2008-09 was half of what it was during the booming Trump economy of 2016. Both in times of economic prosperity and hardship, Chicago always has a homicide rate twenty to thirty times higher than that of most European countries throughout the decades. 

Johnson also pitched providing mental health care serves to reduce crime without any specifics of what kind of services he’s talking about and how they’d be administered. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem likely that the Bloods and the Crips are going to wind up in therapy together anytime soon.

Lastly, Johnson clarified that he had some problems with the defund the police movement, but only that they wanted to “work within confines of the system,” which he claims doesn’t work. Even “defund the police” isn’t radical enough for him.

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