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Just the other day, Chicago's Mayor, Brandon Johnson, was back making the same old, tired Leftist Democrat Party argument about locking up criminals.
Johnson said, "We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already tried that, and we've ended up with the largest prison population in the world without solving the problems of crime and violence. We have moved past that."
"It [incarceration] is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy, and it is not the way to drive violence down."
As part of his efforts to end such "racist" and "unholy" practices in his city, Johnson also did away with the ShotSpotter program in September 2024 — despite pleas and warnings from aldermen, victims' advocates, and community members.
To date, 63 people have died as a direct result of Johnson's termination of the program. The most recent was on Thanksgiving night.
Be informed, not misled.
A man was shot and killed in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood shortly before midnight on Thanksgiving, but no one called 911 for about ten minutes after the gunfire, according to Chicago police. The neighborhood was served by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system for years until Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected it in September 2024. The technology could alert police to shootings even when humans did not.
Police were dispatched around 12:03 a.m. after a caller reported finding a man shot in the 5100 block of South Luna Avenue and said they heard gunfire and a woman screaming roughly ten minutes earlier. No other calls about the shots were made.
Alderman Silvana Tabares, whose 23rd Ward includes the neighborhood, was one of the most vocal supporters of keeping ShotSpotter. She sharply criticized Johnson’s decision to end the city’s contract with the company even after two-thirds of the city council, the police superintendent, and many residents urged him to keep the system online.
Tabares called the shutdown “the most radical, reckless, and dangerous policy in the history of our city.”
Hours before the system was turned off last September, she warned, “Starting tonight, every gunshot victim left bleeding in the streets of our city will be a worthy sacrifice in the eyes of the mayor for his radical agenda. Every single one.”
Now, 63 people have died as a direct result of the Mayor's policy toward lawlessness.
This means, once a week for an entire year, at least one person (sometimes more) has died because they were shot, and either no one heard the shots or people did and didn't bother.
There's more.
Townhall says, "But what's even more telling is if you go through the database compiled by CWBChicago, one that tracks every shooting victim in the Windy City since September 23, 2024. Here are some blunt stats that are rather inconvenient for Mayor Johnson:"
- Of the 63 victims, just seven are either White or "unknown." The majority are Black and male, and the rest are Hispanic. The youngest victim was a 13-year-old Black male shot on March 17, 2025. The oldest was a 66-year-old and one of the few White males on the list.
- Some, perhaps most, of them might have received timely medical care had ShotSpotter been in place. Many of them might still be alive today.
- Instead of protecting the lives of these victims, Mayor Johnson has decided he wants to protect the lives of the violent thugs who gun people down in the streets.
- He openly admits is HIS race is the criminals. Amazing. The fact is, the FBI data supports his claim.
- Here's the breakdown:
- Whites are 60% of the population, and commit 43% of shootings.
- Hispanics are 18% of the population and commit 16% of the shootings.
- Blacks are 12% of the population and commit 41% of shootings.
New York, New York
The newly elected New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is following the same destructive socialist path.
But it seems the only way they'll learn is by suffering through the next four years of his socialist policies.
The most significant change will be in Mamdani's approach to crime. Frankly, New York doesn't have the best track record on that to begin with. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has a history of downgrading felonies to misdemeanors, maliciously prosecuting New Yorkers who defend themselves from the violent criminals who go through the revolving-door justice system.
He's one of the DAs who tried to bring down President Trump.
Now, Mamdani's pick for his Criminal Legal Committee, Janos Marton, wants to make that situation even worse by freeing at least 80 percent of the city's prison and jail population.
According to the video caption, Marton was also a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney, and this was part of his campaign pitch to New Yorkers.
"How do we get this country to a place where we have one million fewer people in jail and prison?" Marton said. "Now, as it relates to Manhattan, I think we can be a little bit bolder than that. We are a supposedly liberal city with a ton of resources and a ton of ways to support people outside of jail and prison, and so I've called for cutting the Manhattan jail population by 80 percent."
Takeaway
This weekend, Amy Curtis wrote for Townhall: "Democrats argue, with straight faces, that we simply can't 'jail our way' out of violent crime. That makes sense if you're a Democrat, of course, because you also believe some women have penises, and some men can give birth. To the rest of the sane world, however, permanently segregating violent criminals from the rest of civilized society is not only the correct course of action, but it's also the primary function of government: to protect its citizens from harm."
The Bible teaches this regarding lawlessness:
- To be lawless is to be contrary to the law or to act without regard to the law. Laws are necessary in a sinful world (1 Timothy 1:9), and those who choose to act lawlessly further sin in the world.
- The word for “lawlessness” in the Bible is often translated as “iniquity.” According to the Bible, the root of all lawlessness is rebellion.
- First John 3:4 defines sin as lawlessness: “Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.”
- To commit sin is to be lawless; that is, the sinner breaks God’s law. In this way, lawlessness is a rejection of God.
- Satan, who models the ultimate rejection of God, will one day empower the Antichrist, called “the
- lawless one,” whose rise to power “will be in accordance with how Satan works” (2 Thessalonians 2:9).
- Lawlessness is contrasted with righteousness in verses such as Romans 6:19, 2 Corinthians 6:14, and Hebrews 1:9.
