Posted on 07/24/2021 6:43:36 PM PDT by simpson96
Lightfoot, speaking during a press availability on Thursday afternoon, said that city officials are exploring different ways to invest in communities, and said that Chicago will focus on the city’s West Side, which has been ravaged by gun violence.
“It’s obvious: we cannot arrest our way out of this problem,” she said. “Fundamentally, if you look at the West Side and you look at the problems, the opioid addiction that is really harming so many individuals, families and communities, the investments we have to make in human capital and the investments we have to make in infrastructure, those are why I spend so much time on the West Side.”
Lightfoot’s comments come as the city saw three mass shootings on Wednesday alone. One teen was killed in North Lawndale, and at least 17 other people were injured in the three attacks, which occurred within a six-hour span of one another.
In all, nearly 30 people were shot on Wednesday alone, according to Chicago police.(snip)
“I really do believe that as goes the west side, so goes the rest of the city of Chicago,” she said. “If we can get it right here, with the mix of resources and investments and capacity building in neighborhoods, empowering residents to be able to hold the territory under their feet, with our help and our support not just in the short-term but in the long-term, that’s really what the investments have to be about, and I’m totally committed to that.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
And the stoopid Dem voting base will elect her again.
Well, there is another way. But it requires guns.
Anything goes, thugs!
Who’s anti-science now?
Arrest them of kill them, that’s the only two ways you solve a murderer problem.
You might be surprised.
or
How would she know? She hasn’t tried.
I view gun violence like a virus. It will work its way through the population no matter what and remove those most prone to committing the violence.
Then things will calm down/
The shrunken head voodoo lady has spoken.
The opiod problem could be curbed if the dimmocrats supported the wall against the cartels’ drug running and also slave trafficking.
And stopped making handouts to baby mommas raising ferel children.
si se puede! Yes you can! ( if you prosecute and incarcerate anyone with more than 50 priors)
(I was reading last summer about people arrested in the east and midwest with dozens and hundreds of priors and just shook my head)
I think they are priming for a gun grab. Let the criminals run wild. Then say you can’t arrest your way out of this, but you can take their guns, all guns, everywhere, all the time.
I read “whine, whine, and more whine” from her statement. If the freaking LAWS/PENALTIES had been enforced ages ago... Oh, nevermind. Fundamental breakdown has been eroding our society for so many years, most of these thugs know nothing else.
but they could vote their way out
“Well, there is another way. But it requires guns.”
That was my first thought too.
Investment = taxes.
Didn’t Chicago gangs help elect ‘her honor’... she’s gonna pretend guns get up and shoot people all on their own..
The real problem isn’t ‘gun violence’ is CRIMINAL VIOLENCE AND GANG VIOLENCE...
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