Blue Lives SHOULD Matter

Interesting article from Olivia Reinhold of The Free Press.

Chicago has record numbers of police suicides. Chicago has some of those dangerous areas of a city in the United States. Chicago has significant gain problems. Chicago has a socialist mayor in city council. Chicago police operate under a consent decree. Chicago police have multiple “citizen” groups overseeing them. Chicago police essentially aren’t allowed to pursue criminals. Chicago police are burden by JB Pritzker’s release the criminals philosophy.

The Windy City is being ruined

Some quotes:

“You are literally getting punished for doing your job. It’s a thankless career, it really is,” [16-year police veteran on the South Side] said “Everything is ass-backward in the city right now. The Democrats fucked up a lot of shit in this city, and there’s no cleaning it up.”

“Chicago is one of the hardest major cities to be a police officer,” said Hannah Meyers, a former New York City Police Department analyst and the director of policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. “You’re up against so much in terms of crime and violence. There’s rampant gang activity and youth disorder—these officers are seeing kids get shot. Parents finding out their kids were shot. And then there are people telling you they hate you. They see real human misery, and it’s just too much to absorb.”

…parts of Chicago are some of the most dangerous places on Earth—Garfield Park, for example, had a higher murder rate than Tijuana in 2020. It’s worse than that: Over the past decade, Chicago has become the anti-cop capital of America.

https://substack.com/@oliviareingold616771/note/p-163090052?r=98475&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action