While mayor Lori Lightfoot continues to try and assure the public that she has everything under control, the exodus from Chicago as a result of the looting and riots is continuing.
Citizens of Chicago are literally starting to pour out of the city, citing safety and the Mayor's ineptitude as their key reasons for leaving.
Even though residents understand the looting and riots in some cases, they are not waiting around for it to get better on its own, nor are they waiting around for it to make its way to their house, their families or their neighborhoods.
The city's soaring crime has been national news this year and many residents are claiming they "No longer feel safe" in the city's epicenter, according to the Tribune report.
Resident Neil Spun, who has lived in Chicago for more than 30 years, said: "There have been riots before, and looting. It just seems to me now that the city isn't doing anything about it. I don't see this getting any better, and so I'd like to leave."
Philip Nyden, founding director of the Center for Urban Research and Learning and professor emeritus of sociology at Loyola University Chicago said: "One of the things around the immediate reaction to the looting: there is an undertone of race, I think. People don't openly say 'those people' from the South and West sides are coming downtown ... in Chicago, the looters shown on television were predominantly young and African American."
He blames the Mayor: "She hasn't done her job. Her job is to protect me and protect the city. And I just don't see that she's doing it. I can't go out at nighttime anymore. I'm afraid to. That's not normal; that's not the way Americans are supposed to live."
Saturday, August 29, 2020
"She Hasn't Done Her Job": Looting, Riots, & Mayoral Ineptitude Prompt Mass Exodus Of Chicago Residents
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