Chicago PD Stands Down - October 8th, Hour 2
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity spotlights Bill O'Reilly's bombshell about a Chicago police stand down order during a violent protest targeting ICE agents, audio evidence in hand. O'Reilly, on air, calls out the Chicago chief of patrol and criticizes Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker for failing to address ongoing urban violence, highlighting rising casualties and a lack of political will to restore law and order. Hannity frames the crisis as a national tipping point, arguing that public safety is the foundation of American freedom and economic mobility. Their exchange pinpoints systemic failures in Democratic-run cities and raises the stakes for the 2024 political landscape, with O'Reilly's perspective and bestselling book adding heft to the debate. This matters as it underscores the real-world consequences of policies polarizing America over law enforcement, immigration, and urban security.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | All right, Leonard Skinner, Simple Man, that can only mean one thing on this radio program. |
| 0:10.6 | All things self-proclaimed, Simple Man, that means all things Bill O'Reilly. |
| 0:14.5 | All things Bill O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly.com. |
| 0:17.2 | Big congratulations to Bill. |
| 0:19.6 | His latest book just out, confronting evil, assessing the |
| 0:23.5 | worst of the worst, debuting number one on the New York Times list, which you know drives |
| 0:29.9 | them insane. |
| 0:32.0 | We have been talking at length about the need for law and order and safety and security. |
| 0:40.4 | And fundamentally, I don't know how you resolve, you know, those of us that believe in |
| 0:45.8 | policing and law and order with those people that buy into this defund, dismantle, |
| 0:53.8 | no bail law, reimagine the police and send in the social |
| 0:57.5 | worker mentality. |
| 0:59.0 | But it exists. |
| 1:00.8 | J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, since he's been governor, over 4,000, you know, dead people |
| 1:07.6 | in his state in Chicago, the city of Chicago. |
| 1:10.0 | I mean, you just count the numbers |
| 1:11.3 | every weekend. Names, we've been scrolling since 2009, a people shot, shot and killed. And in this |
| 1:18.4 | blue, very blue, deep blue state of Illinois in the deep blue city of Chicago, they don't lift |
| 1:25.5 | a finger to help out innocent people. And I argue it's a |
| 1:30.6 | prerequisite. If you want to pursue your God-given talent and happiness, you've got to have |
| 1:36.1 | law and order and safety and security. Anybody with common sense understands that. And it's sad |
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