Another Summer Weekend in Chicago: 27 Shot, Seven Dead

The defund the police movement is alive and well in Chicago.  The first weekend in August was a bloody one in the windy city, as reported by the Sun Times, with 27 shootings and seven fatalities.  Among the victims was an 8-year-old girl playing in front of her house.  The suspect, who was tackled and held for police by the girl’s father, walked up and intentionally shot the child in the head.  She died.  A 14-year-old boy is in critical condition with two gunshot wounds in the head from a Saturday night shooting.  Among the other victims was a 35-year-old man shot while sitting in his home.  The Chicago Police Department has lost 1,700 officers since Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office in 2019.  Newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson has no plan to add more officers.  Arrests in the city have dropped by 50% since 2019 and a suspect is arrested in only 5% of non-fatal shootings.  Amid this bloodletting, uber-liberal Illinois Governor J.D. Pritzker is busy virtue-signaling, signing a new law that mandates the hiring of non-citizens as police officers.  How bad does it have to get before state voters start electing people committed to cracking down on criminals.