CHICAGO, IL – Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has again used his platform to demean practical law enforcement measures, leading a press conference earlier in September during which the Windy City mayor claimed that “law enforcement is a sickness,” while also asserting that putting offenders behind bars "doesn’t lead to safe communities.”
On September 17th, Mayor Johnson claimed during a press conference that, “Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities,” implying that the seemingly failed progressive approach is the solution to Chicago’s ongoing violent crime epidemic.
A study published in 2023 frames a very telling fact about the city of Chicago, insofar as the city’s pockets of concentrated violence are statistically more dangerous than wartime Afghanistan and Iraq – meaning everyday citizens in Chicago’s 60624 ZIP code are expected to dodge more bullets than American soldiers stationed abroad were in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet, according to Mayor Johnson, locking up said individuals and the officers tasked with doing the aforementioned is somehow “a sickness.”
Chicago has been going the progressive route for quite some time when it comes to addressing issues like violent crime and recidivism, such as the Pretrial Fairness Act, which came to fruition back in September of 2023 and eliminated cash bail. According to a review of the legislation one year later, it was found not to be the success it was touted to be in its lead-up, with defendants released without bond still failing to appear in follow-up hearings approximately 15 percent of the time.
Mayor Johnson’s characterization of law enforcement and the jailing of offenders being akin to “a sickness” is also equally confounding when confronted with the violence Chicago endured this past Labor Day weekend, which saw a total of 58 people being shot, eight of whom fatally. If the Chicago mayor’s depiction of law enforcement being “a sickness” were to be treated as the proverbial Gospel, then what would one call nearly sixty people being shot in one weekend?
It should be noted that Chicago has seen a drop in violent crime over the past few years, but the present-day level of violent crime within the city is far from what level-headed individuals would consider acceptable, and methods like practical policing and reasonable approaches to incarceration would likely see crime plummet. Data backs up the incapacitation approach, as a 2013 study found that 63 percent of violent crimes are committed by approximately 1 percent of prior offenders.
Vice President JD Vance has echoed the aforementioned sentiment regarding repeat offenders, saying, “The reality is that the gross majority of violent crime is committed by a very small group of people and we should be throwing them in prison,” brushing off the oft-cited progressive talking point that violent crime is “systemic and therefore no one’s really responsible.”
On September 17th, Mayor Johnson claimed during a press conference that, “Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities,” implying that the seemingly failed progressive approach is the solution to Chicago’s ongoing violent crime epidemic.
A study published in 2023 frames a very telling fact about the city of Chicago, insofar as the city’s pockets of concentrated violence are statistically more dangerous than wartime Afghanistan and Iraq – meaning everyday citizens in Chicago’s 60624 ZIP code are expected to dodge more bullets than American soldiers stationed abroad were in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet, according to Mayor Johnson, locking up said individuals and the officers tasked with doing the aforementioned is somehow “a sickness.”
Chicago has been going the progressive route for quite some time when it comes to addressing issues like violent crime and recidivism, such as the Pretrial Fairness Act, which came to fruition back in September of 2023 and eliminated cash bail. According to a review of the legislation one year later, it was found not to be the success it was touted to be in its lead-up, with defendants released without bond still failing to appear in follow-up hearings approximately 15 percent of the time.
Mayor Johnson’s characterization of law enforcement and the jailing of offenders being akin to “a sickness” is also equally confounding when confronted with the violence Chicago endured this past Labor Day weekend, which saw a total of 58 people being shot, eight of whom fatally. If the Chicago mayor’s depiction of law enforcement being “a sickness” were to be treated as the proverbial Gospel, then what would one call nearly sixty people being shot in one weekend?
It should be noted that Chicago has seen a drop in violent crime over the past few years, but the present-day level of violent crime within the city is far from what level-headed individuals would consider acceptable, and methods like practical policing and reasonable approaches to incarceration would likely see crime plummet. Data backs up the incapacitation approach, as a 2013 study found that 63 percent of violent crimes are committed by approximately 1 percent of prior offenders.
Vice President JD Vance has echoed the aforementioned sentiment regarding repeat offenders, saying, “The reality is that the gross majority of violent crime is committed by a very small group of people and we should be throwing them in prison,” brushing off the oft-cited progressive talking point that violent crime is “systemic and therefore no one’s really responsible.”
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Comments
2025-09-21T22:17-0400 | Comment by: Richard
I really thought that Beetlejuice was the lowest that Chiraq could sink with regard to a mayor. In a “hold my beer” moment they have proven once again that for leftoids the bottom is only theoretical, and their life ambition is to go so low they come out on the other side of the earth.
2025-09-22T16:48-0400 | Comment by: Jon
This idiot is scraping "the bottom of the barrel". It would serve the city right if all of its law enforcement officers resigned at once. (Watch the city go down the toilet and sell popcorn at the spectacle).
2025-09-22T17:54-0400 | Comment by: Michael
I don't know why the whole police force just doesn't quit and go to a red state that appreciates police. Let's see how fast these losers will be crying that they have no protection , especially since it's the most unfriendly 2A state...
2025-09-22T18:10-0400 | Comment by: Dawn
Data is heavily manipulated. So many areas aren't actually prosecuting crime, and what crime they do have isn't being reported to the feds. Throw in the fact that officers in some areas are being forced to downplay and incorrectly charge crimes to make them appear less serious, and "data" is worthless. The real tell is - can you walk down the streets? Can you do so alone in the daytime without fear of being mugged, assaulted, raped, or murdered? Can you do so at night without fear for your safety? I talk to people in live in places like Chicago, and they constantly say NO. They don't feel safe walking the streets in broad daylight, much less at night, even in a group. But they have city leaders telling them that their observations of very real danger aren't real/true. I guess all the people being assaulted, raped, and murdered aren't real. People are imaging the horrible levels of crime.
2025-09-22T19:54-0400 | Comment by: James
This guy is a cancer in the state of Illinois. What a freaking JOKE! I thought the citizens of Chicago would run him off by now! Guess they like their city to be ran by a thug! Probably has the same babydaddy as Floyd!
2025-09-24T01:07-0400 | Comment by: Paul
?Both he and the idiot standing behind his right shoulder in that first picture, are the sickness. Chicago is no longer a vacation spot. Just cut off all federal funds to the state along with the entire west coast. See how long they can go without our tax dollars. Newsom has already said he doesn't need our money, so oblige him!