Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot continued to deflect blame regarding the city’s escalating crime crisis this week, blaming the rise in carjackings on remote learning and school closures.
“We are seeing an inordinate number of juveniles that are the perpetrators of these carjackings. I think in Chicago we have consistently seen 50 percent or higher of the people that we are arresting are juveniles,” Lightfoot told reporters.
Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot says Democrat school shutdowns are to blame for carjackings skyrocketing.
"There was a correlation between remote learning and the rise in carjacking." pic.twitter.com/Q7mVERRMZA
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 8, 2022
“We started seeing this rise in cases in 2020. And I’ll be frank and say in Chicago there was a correlation we believe between remote learning and the rise in carjackings,” she added. “Having talked to state attorneys who are dealing with these cases in juvenile court and others, a lot of parents went to work during the day thinking their teenagers were logged on for remote learning, only to find something else. And I ask, ‘is there some new market for stolen cars?’ And unfortunately the answer was no — that for many of these kids, some of whom had no prior involvement in the criminal justice system, this was pure boredom.”
“No resident in the city of Chicago or the Chicagoland area deserves to live in fear of violence,” Lightfoot said. “But the sad reality is that in the last year and a half in particular, there is a very real and pervasive fear of carjacking across our city, our region and our state. And in actuality carjackings have become a national crisis.”
Read the full report at Fox News.
Lori Lightfoot, you’ve gone senile. The spike in kids carjacking might stem from your SOFT answer to crime in your city n the fact that kids see adults do it, get a slap on the wrist so they will do it. Maybe try n entice these ‘bored’ kids into some programs n such from all that stash of $$ you blue state governor’s always seem to have! You just need to step down cause you have done NOTHING but sell your state down your filthy river of your making!!
Biggest reason Tell her and her city council
to look in a mirror
defund law enforcement ? ? ? ? ?
Da’s not prosecuting crimes ? ? ? ? ?
soft on criminals ? ? ? ? ?