Chicago had 797 homicides last year, according to city police-the most of any city in the United States and the most in Chicago for a quarter century.
Homicides are only the tip of the spear of Chicago's crime wave.
The toll is greatest among minorities and residents of poor neighborhoods, but crime is seeping into affluent places as well, and the spillover endangers Chicago's economy.
Chicago's crime explosion has many causes, of course, but an important one is dreadful political leadership.
Never in its history has Chicago had such a feckless trio in charge of public safety: Cook County state's attorney Kim Foxx, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, and Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot.
According to Chicago hedge-fund titan Ken Griffin, during the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, Pritzker delayed sending in National Guard troops because it would "Not look good to have people with assault rifles patrolling Michigan Avenue." When Pritzker finally relented and deployed troops, he sent such a minimal force that the rioters merely decamped from the stores of high-end retailers along the Magnificent Mile to loot elsewhere.
The only silver lining to Chicago's terrible crime wave is that it creates realities that voters cannot ignore.
https://www.city-journal.org/crime-and-chicago-toxic-leadership?wallit_nosession=1
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