Retired Chicago Police Chief Says Johnson and Pritzker Afraid to Ask Feds In “Because It Might Work” While Stats Show Crime Down

Wondering why I haven’t seen this in Chicago media.

From the Washington Examiner:

Asked why the pair are refusing the offer of federal assistance to combat crime during a Tuesday interview with The National News Desk, former Chicago Police Chief Jody Weis said the quiet part out loud: They’re afraid it might work.

“I think they are afraid that people will see what can be done if politicians commit to taking action and really want to make a difference,” Weis explained. “That’s really the only reason I can think of because otherwise, it makes no sense.”

According to Weis, 81% of shooters and 78% of shooting victims are black.

“So you’ve got black-on-black crime,” Weis said, “and yet the governor and the mayor said they don’t want any help. So, to me, when you refuse help, you are saying you are happy with the numbers — and that is absolutely unacceptable in Chicago right now.

“I see JB Pritzker walking the lake at 6 o’clock in the morning, saying, ‘There’s no crime here. It’s beautiful.’ Well, it’s 6 o’clock in the morning along the lake. I live pretty close to that area. There is no crime. Let him walk in the Austin neighborhood or the Inglewood neighborhoods at 11 o’clock because that’s where many of his constituents live — and they’re not going to feel safe.”

Weis was referring to Pritzker’s Tuesday morning stroll along Chicago’s scenic Lakefront Trail with a reporter. Citing the bloody weekend, she asked the governor, “Would you ask your friends to ride the L [train] after midnight or after 9 o’clock at night?”

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While Labor Day Weekend was quite bloody, statistics cited in the Chicago Sun-Times that show summer crime is down:

Extracted from the Wall Street Journal by a Friend of McHenry County Blog:

Murders per 100,000 population: