Chicago crime: Stop the bleed

Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson’s primary focus on crime is on “root causes,” with little-to-no emphasis on containing today’s out-of-control violence. It’s a strategy doomed to fail. Tackling root causes is important, but they take a long time to address – if they can even be agreed to.

What Chicago requires immediately is deterrence. Stop the bleed. Fast. In Chicago’s case, that means a dramatic increase in policing, arrests, prosecutions and sentencing.

Criminals in Chicago are justified in thinking crime pays considering the low chance they have in being caught. Chicago’s arrest rate for the city’s seven major crimes fell to just 5% in 2022. And in Chicago YTD crime in 2023 is up 39% vs. same period in 2022.

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