Lori Lightfoot is clueless. 99.9% of the gun crimes in Chicago are committed with handguns. She blames poor gun control and mentions the easy availability of assault weapons, which are not even being used. Last year she blamed President Trump. She blames everything but her poor leadership.
Shootings in her city have risen by 50% so far this year. Although Lightfoot now says she doesn't want to defund the police, in October she proposed an $80 million budget cut for the CPD. She won't allow police to pursue suspects on foot for "minor offenses." Wait... what? So if an officer witnesses a minor assault and the suspect runs that's it? He gets away? Brilliant. Chicago's next mayoral election will be interesting.
President Biden is set to announce his new policy on policing in America tomorrow. That should prove interesting.
Meanwhile around the country citizens are fighting back against liberal policies pushed by their school boards. Many parents and teachers, black and white, have spoken out in board meetings against forcing very controversial critical race theory on school children. Some school boards have tried to silence those objections but the objections have gained national attention.
The Randolph, New Jersey, school board did away with school holiday names completely because of backlash over their decision to rename Columbus Day "Indigenous Peoples'Day." They decided it would be better to simply call them "days off" instead. Parents objected saying holiday names such as Veterans' Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas are important and that the board overstepped their boundaries, putting politics ahead of the children. They gathered over 2500 signatures on a petition demanding the entire school board resign.
In Loudoun, Virginia, parents recently objected to lewd and sexually explicit reading material required for children as young as ninth grade. In other cities across the country parents are objecting to sexual curriculum, including sexual preferences and lifestyles, in elementary schools.
And finally, in Silverton, Colorado, the mayor recently removed the Pledge of Allegiance from the city council's public meeting agenda in a unilateral decision. He cited "threats and inappropriate comnents" as his reason but provided no details or specifics. The council had previously voted 4 to 3 to keep the pledge. Later in the meeting, during the question and answer period, citizens in attendance objected and recited the pledge anyway in objection to the mayor's edict. Two board members also stood and recited it, one questioning the mayor's authority to unilaterally override the board's decision. The mayor threatened to have the citizens removed for violating his order.
Many Americans are getting tired of left-wing and progressive policies that are "fundamentally changing" America as we know it. Public outcry is gaining momentum as people stand up and say "No more!"
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