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The Chicago Way

The Chicago Way w/John Kass: Ray Lopez isn’t buying City Hall’s narrative on crime

The Chicago Way

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Chicago Way w/John Kass (12/02/2022): On this edition, Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) discusses dropping his bid for mayor, what that means for the race to unseat Mayor Lori Lightfoot in 2023, and running a race for the redrawn 15th ward. Plus, Kasso wonders if the late legend of WLS radio morning drive Don Wade would […]

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0:00.0

Violent street crime and Mayor Laurie Lightfoot's collapse in the face of it, her inability

0:08.7

to handle it, her endorsement of soft on crime Soros prosecutor Kim Fox as a means of

0:16.8

kissing Bostoni's hand and suing for peace, these are the issues facing Chicago and the

0:24.5

number one issue in the Chicago mayoral campaign is street crime because if you don't feel safe,

0:33.3

if you're constantly worried about becoming a victim with those thousands upon thousands

0:38.4

of emergency 911 calls going unanswered because of lack of police while there's a problem,

0:46.0

the city will die and there's another issue with progressive Chicago media, meaning all

0:52.3

media in the tank for either Lightfoot or Chuig Garcia, another critical issue sticks its

0:59.0

snaky head up and is about to bite with the city of Chicago circling the drain on finances,

1:07.5

crime and schools and with the media broken on the rocks of their own identity politics,

1:13.7

how can the people of Chicago trust with their reading or hearing at this most critical time?

1:22.0

The city is in the balance on the precipice and thousands upon thousands of Chicagoans still want

1:29.5

to stay, but they need credible information to make decisions for themselves and for their

1:37.3

families and that is what brings me to a tweet from the well-respected independent news outlet

1:46.2

CWB Chicago about Lightfoot's commander of the Chicago police first district, David Harris and he

1:55.9

was bolsting about the reduction of crime. CWB called his claims pure fantasy,

2:06.7

his is the district that takes in the loop bronzeville and the adjacent lakefront areas.

2:13.4

Commander Harris showed up on Steve Cochrane's morning show on WLS AM890 to brag about his

2:20.6

leadership and crime reductions. He reduced crime more than 40% he said.

2:29.0

And Cochrane was completely gullible, naive, trusting, credulous. Credulous is defined

2:37.3

in the dictionary as having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.

2:44.2

The ceremony staged for credulous tourists, or perhaps for voters determined to play the

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