Concerned Chicagoan

My pronouns are pro/cop.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

Last year, among 15-19 year-olds, the ratio of black firearms homicide victimization to white firearms homicide victimization was 21:1. Twenty-one to one! (And this was actually an improvement from a 2021 peak of 27:1.)

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

NYC woman declined to press charges against subway shover 'because she didn't want to put another black man in jail'... weeks later he allegedly killed retired teacher, 76, at station https://t.co/gAQPtG9QcZ

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

Here’s my honest assessment:

Generation of kids raised by no fathers. Those kids have no respect for authority or anyone else. At least the grandparents are able to show them a few things.

It turns into another generation of kids raised by even less fathers and no grandparents. Those kids don’t respect anything.

These takeovers are being done by kids who think it’s funny to destroy things. They think it’s hysterical to ruin the public’s night. They’re not worried about consequences or anything else because it was never taught to them. They truly are feral.

Combined with soft on crime leftist policies, these kids tear things up and look forward to doing it again.

The solution? Start locking up the parents, too. Vote judges in who give out maximum penalties. Vote in mayors and sheriffs who will focus less on “rehabilitation” in jail and make it “hard time” again. Show these kids there will be consequences. Make jail so unattractive it makes them think twice before they do something like this.

It has to be stopped now or else the next generation will be even worse.

[Frank Calabrese @FrankCalabrese]

My issue with Cook County Commissioner Samantha Steele was never just about drinking and driving. It was about abuse of power, ethics, and how she treats ordinary people when she thinks her title puts her above them.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Wild this isn't getting news coverage.

A homeless woman in Austin gets shot dead in the neck and robbed.

Cops figure out pretty fast it was a repeat violent offender Austin prosecutors had already let walk on aggravated robberies, drug felonies, gun charges, plus a separate shooting where he put three bullets in a someone’s leg over a crack baggie.

Cops get the guy on his own home camera, six minutes after the murder, bagging up his bloody clothes, telling a woman to mop the floor and lie to the cops, and literally saying out loud “homicide will be in this hoe.”

DA José Garza’s office looked at all of it and dropped the murder charge two weeks ago.

The man is back on the street.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

We need to hear her story. If it were not for the subsequent murder of a Chicago cop, we would never have heard the story of Maria Velezquez. We need to stop releasing people who do this to people like her again and again and again. https://t.co/ZMMzcWEaZf

[Rafael A. Mangual @Rafa_Mangual]

If you were truly gutted, you’d be demanding accountability from—and proposing changes to—a system that left a 22yo repeat offender with an open CHILD RAPE case on the street with an ankle monitor instead of in jail where he belonged. Jonathan Melo—a former student of my wife’s, btw—is dead because reforms that you and your allies in Albany pushed for subordinated his safety and security to the interests of the offender class constituted by lowlifes like Tollinche. If you were truly gutted, you’d be calling for substantive changes designed to keep irredeemable monsters like Tollinche off the goddamn street. So how about it, @NYCMayor/@ZohranKMamdani? Will you push for allowing judges to remand dangerous defendants to pretrial detention? Will you support rebuttable presumptions of detention for serious offenders accused of crimes like child rape? Can you get behind meaningful mandatory minimums and habitual offender enhancements that will keep people like Tollinche behind bars for good? Or will you continue to support initiatives like “second look” and “elder parole” which are designed to give offenders like Tollinche the opportunity to leave prison and be back on the street long before they’ve served a just sentence?

The People want answers.

[Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP @Agent1Security]

I would have to disagree. The closing of @Walgreens on 86th and Cottage Grove I admit is devastating for the black community, but as businesses what do you expect them to do?

I have spoken with employees of different Walgreens predominately in black communities and they say the same. Shoplifters who are violent and just blatantly walk in and grab items, sometimes bags of items and walk out knowing nobody will stop them.

It cost businesses more to do business in high crime areas as well, coupled by higher security costs, and employee safety concerns.

@ChicagosMayor loves to swish around in his mouth "segregation " and "anti black" and comparing wages to "Slavery" but it's his reckless policy's, increased taxes and bureaucracy on businesses, especially in the black community that are pushing businesses out.

And lastly, that #Walgreens was destroyed when the "community" looted it back in 2020.

Where was the outrage then? #Chicago

[Corey Brooks “RoofTopPastor” @CoreyBBrooks]

Chicago’s South Side isn’t failing because of a lack of potential—it’s being suffocated by excuses, dependency, and decay. We can do better, and we must. Read this.
https://t.co/jp23xt4Jem

[Dan Proft @DanProft]

The guy who killed one Chicago police officer and criticality injured another has been arrested 21 times for violent crimes. One prison sentence. Let's talk about the judges too.

[CWBChicago @CWBChicago]

3 months ago, the county’s Chief Judge announced an overhaul that was supposed to keep electronic monitoring escapees from committing new horrors.

Records show those new polices were either not followed or failed to function as promised.

https://t.co/m1vovqh3eY

[Jen @IlliniJen]

Jimmy Kimmel had @JBPritzker strap on a tactical vest to mock “war-torn Chicago” on his show.

He turned real concerns about crime into cheap jokes about the Brewers attacking the Cubs, ketchup on hot dogs, and shallow deep dish pizza.

Five months later, 18-year-old Loyola student Sheridan Gorman was brutally murdered near campus.

This is the same Jimmy Kimmel who told Melania Trump she has the glow of an expectant widow.

He keeps turning crime, violence, and death into punchlines.

This isn’t comedy. It’s sick and dangerous.

Fire Jimmy Kimmel.

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

I promise you, Ro Khanna, my daughter was scared when she was forced to take her last breath.
I was not there to hold her as she slipped away.
For years, Americans were told about “robust vetting” and “screening.” My family learned the cost of those false assurances when an illegal immigrant, driving intoxicated and in this country unlawfully, killed my daughter under the very policies you champion and still defend.
Oh, and he got a release date — because of course he did.
Katie got the grave.
Katie’s family got a life sentence of grief while he got another chance.
Your one-sided hyperbolic rhetoric would fit right in with J.B. Pritzker, his allies and the Illinois media that protects him.
How far we have fallen when men like you are treated as moral leaders while families like mine are left with graves, not justice. Bang-up job sir!

[Rafael A. Mangual @Rafa_Mangual]

Answer: Because, despite what you’ve been told by leftist decarcerationists, the system has _never_ been as harsh as the activists claimed it was.

[JohnnyFSE @JohnnyFSE]

I built https://t.co/R1jAMUfNTv — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities.
You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free.
I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually every state in the country. This first batch of info is from 2024 and since public reports are released in March/April for the previous year, data is behind. But I wanted to see if this is plausible. After adding 2024,I'll add 2025 and then figure out how to get real-time-data uploaded.
It's in beta — would love to know what you think 👇
Numbers don't lie, but criminals do.
https://t.co/DfTcJ6XMYn

@bennyjohnson @jockowillink @GrantCardone @LauraLoomer @nickshirleyy @j_fishback

[slimzim @jameszimmermann]

BLACKLISTED: In September the Knoxville Symphony invited me to their blind audition for Principal Clarinet, which I won by unanimous vote. Two days later their CEO called and refused to hire me, citing my ousting from the Nashville Symphony six years ago for resisting DEI as the reason, and instead gave the job to my runner-up, an obvious DEI hire who’s still in college.

In response I sued the Knoxville Symphony two weeks ago for a year’s salary plus $25k for the 100 hours I spent practicing for the audition. This isn’t just about money though, it’s also about pushing back against these symphony CEOs who continue to put race and politics above merit and skill. Someone has to save our symphonies from being sacrificed on the altar of “diversity” and no one is better positioned to do it than me. Wish I didn’t have to do it but I’m doing it anyway.

I was excited to take the stage with the Knoxville Symphony but instead I’ll see them in court. If Knoxville thought I’d walk away from this they were sorely mistaken.

[Rafael A. Mangual @Rafa_Mangual]

I say again: Engagement in antisocial behaviors (like using speakerphone on a public bus) is, in most cases, an act of mini-conquest meant to intimidate. If those inconvenienced by the behavior remain silent, the malcontent wins through their submission. If they speak up, she gets to act out.

These behaviors are almost never benign and they should be policed.

[Nilam Civok @CivokNilam]

Chicago 2024 violent-crime totals:
• Homicides – 581
• Shootings ~2,800
• Aggravated assaults – 15,800
• Robberies – 9,900
• Sexual assaults – 1,800
Over 28,000 violent crimes in one year.

But Dave says...

https://t.co/0MxqBuxaWS

[Ja'Mal Green @JaymalGreen]

The only reason why Pastor Chris Harris is next to Brandon clapping like a seal is because he getting millions for migrants. Y’all should see his new mansion. Smh

[Pay Roll Manager Here @UsingLyft]

Someone just DMd me “why not be more positive about black culture and why be so insulting so often?”

The reason is because I believe in shame. I want black American culture to be a culture that shames whining victims and excuse makers. I want ppl lying in order to feel good to be called out for it and to feel ashamed that they displayed such weakness of character. I believe in ridiculing ppl who choose to be weak and conniving.

Why don’t I deliver the messages nicely? Because I want us to be strong enough to handle the most uncomfortable the truths. Those who can handle that without the need to have it buttered up for them are the only people strong enough to make something positive out of this current condition. And so my words are a call to those who are strong enough to hear the truth despite it not being presented to them in a nice package; they’re the only ones who can do anything to make this situation better.