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The Chicago Way

The Chicago Way w/John Kass: Big thinker Heather Mac Donald tackles ‘The War on Cops’

The Chicago Way

WGN Plus

Kass, Jeff, Radio, Wgn, News, Tribune, Plus, Politics, Way, Columnist, Carlin, News & Politics, The, John, Chicago

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The Chicago Way w/John Kass (05/14/2022): This week, John Kass and Jeff Carlin are joined by the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “The War on Cops,” Heather Mac Donald to discuss the impact of Supreme Court protests, police policing in the modern age, and how Chicago can counter the […]

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0:00.0

If you read my website or CWB or perhaps sometimes on TV, you'll realize and know that there

0:13.9

are dangerous people out there.

0:17.1

Violent crime is spiking across the city of Chicago.

0:22.1

It's spiking across the country.

0:24.6

And in Chicago, people are afraid.

0:27.0

They're afraid to leave their homes.

0:29.8

Even if they're living on the gold coast, they're afraid to walk outside.

0:33.6

They're afraid to walk up and down Michigan Avenue.

0:36.7

They're afraid to go to the bean, which is ground zero for gatherings.

0:43.8

And gunshots are fired there regularly.

0:48.6

Lori Lightfoot has no clue.

0:51.6

Kim Fox is doing what Kim Fox is doing, which is to hug the criminals, I guess.

1:03.6

Dangerous people.

1:06.8

But we have our own dangerous person on the Chicago way today.

1:11.1

She's Heather McDonald of the Manhattan Institute, a writer for city journal and other publications

1:19.0

like the New York Post.

1:21.8

She's the author of The War on Cops.

1:25.2

And she was at ground zero in the forefront of broken windows policing in New York when

1:33.1

New York decided to take its city back.

1:37.9

Jeff Carlin is here, as always, executive producer WGN, my friend, future physics teacher,

1:45.2

master of pies, baker of cats, sorry, master of cats, baker of pies, sorry, Jeff.

1:54.5

And I'm John Cass, husband, father, Greek Orthodox Christian, editor and chief of your

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