Chicagoans who thought Johnson would be better than Lightfoot were dead wrong.
According to a report from The Washington Examiner, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is seeing crime rates worse than his failed predecessor Lori Lightfoot; crime has spiked 38% under Johnson.
From The Examiner:
Today marks one month since Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson entered office on May 15, 2023. He commemorated the milestone on Twitter with a thread detailing what he has focused on thus far.
Notably, there was only one mention of public safety — and it did not even reference a specific policy. This is significant because new data show Mayor Johnson has presided over a 38% crime spike over his first month in office when comparing it to the same period last year.
Vehicle thefts spiked by 153%, aggravated battery is up 17%, burglary jumped by 12%, and even shootings rose 5%. A few weeks ago, carjackings got so bad the Chicago Police Department had to issue a “community alert urging residents to be more vigilant about their surroundings and to always be on the lookout for suspicious activity when entering or leaving vehicles.”
The lone exception to this pattern is murders, which went down by 5%. In raw numbers, it means there were only three fewer people killed.
So murder is down by a few, but Chicago continues to be a criminal’s paradise.
More over at The Examiner:
"It is a scandal that Mayor Johnson has refused to even unveil a plan yet — let alone take tangible action — on the crime wave plaguing the city every day now.
But, to be honest, this is not necessarily surprising."
–@Jack_Elbaumhttps://t.co/MUV3muvcIj— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 15, 2023
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