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APRIL 2, 2019 / 5:03 AM / UPDATED 6 MINUTES AGO
Chicago makes history electing Lori Lightfoot as first black woman mayor
Brendan O'Brien, Karen Pierog
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lori Lightfoot, a political newcomer, was elected the first black female mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, defeating opponent Toni Preckwinkle by a landslide in a runoff to take over a city struggling with crime and weak finances.

A former federal prosecutor, Lightfoot won 74 percent of the vote with nearly all precincts counted compared with 26 percent for Preckwinkle, a long-time local politician, to become Chicago’s 56th mayor.

Lightfoot, 56, who will also become the first openly gay mayor of the third-largest U.S. city, appealed to voters who are tired of politics as usual. She has never held political office, while Preckwinkle, 72, was a city councilwoman for almost 20 years before becoming Cook County board president in 2010.

“You did more than make history. You created a movement for change,” Lightfoot told hundreds of supporters at her election night party, promising to end corruption and make the city’s streets safe again. “We can and will remake Chicago.”

The runoff between two African-American women was a rarity in the United States, where only 6 percent of mayors in the 200 largest U.S. cities are women of color, according to the Reflective Democracy Campaign.

Lightfoot and Preckwinkle, both Democrats, earned spots on the ballot in the runoff after they garnered the most votes among 14 candidates in a February election. Lightfoot will replace Rahm Emanuel, who did not seek a third term.

“She brings fresh air and is someone I can trust,” Shisha Amabel, a 72-year-old retired social worker who joined supporters at Lightfoot’s celebration at a Michigan Avenue hotel.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker alluded to former U.S. President Barack Obama, once an Illinois senator, in offering his congratulations.

“In a city that serves as the hometown for many Black American politicians who have made history, there is another political first,” Booker said on Twitter.

SAGGING FINANCES AND POLICE REFORM

Lightfoot, the former president of independent civilian body the Chicago Police Board, will inherit massive fiscal challenges including a $28 billion unfunded liability for the city’s four retirement systems and escalating annual pension contributions that will top $2 billion in 2023.

A projected $252 million budget deficit for fiscal 2020, which begins Jan. 1, awaits the new mayor, along with expired or expiring labor contracts with police, firefighter and public school teacher unions.

   Neither candidate disclosed detailed plans to shore up the city’s sagging finances.

   In debates, Lightfoot, a former corporate lawyer, said the city has to demonstrate it can be a “better fiscal steward” before it seeks more revenue.


Lightfoot will take over a city ranked as one of the nation’s most violent. Homicides in Chicago declined by more than a quarter in 2018 from its five-year high of 769 in 2016. But less than one out of five murders were solved in Chicago in the first half of 2018, according to local media.

She will be expected to deliver on a campaign promise to reform the police department currently under court-appointed oversight to address a 2017 Justice Department finding of widespread excessive force and racial bias by officers.

On day one, Lightfoot will also have to find a way to ease tension between the police department and state’s attorney after prosecutors decided to drop charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a hate crime attack.

Preckwinkle offered support.

“Not long ago, two African-American women vying for this position would have been unthinkable,” she said. “While it may be true that we took different paths to get here, tonight is about the path forward.”

Reporting by Brendan O'Brien and Karen Pierog in Chicago; Additional reporting by Bob Chiarito, Karl Plume, Mark Weinraub, Julie Ingwersen and Tom Polansek in Chicago; Writing by Caroline Stauffer and Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Matthew Lewis

Slideshow at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chicago-mayor/chicago-makes-history-electing-lori-lightfoot-as-first-black-woman-mayor-idUSKCN1RE124

Rahm Emanuel has given up on Chicago, and it's a bad sign for all of America
by Michael Barone | September 13, 2018 10:36 AM

Rahm Emanuel will be leaving office as a frustrated and unsuccessful mayor, even though he is one of the great political talents of his generation.

“ It’s The Lord of the Flies on LaSalle Street,” wrote columnist John Kass in the Chicago Tribune. In case the references are unclear, whether because high schools haven’t been assigning the William Golding novel in the last few decades or because out-of-towners unaccountably don’t realize that Chicago’s City Hall fronts on LaSalle Street, the curmudgeonly Kass was writing about Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s announcement that he won’t run for a third term as mayor next February.

Should readers from outside Chicagoland care? Yes, because Emanuel’s surprise exit is a sign of the unworkability of policies that will go national if Resistance Democrats oust Donald Trump — and indeed, of some policies embraced by Trump as well.

Emanuel will be leaving office as a frustrated and unsuccessful mayor, even though he is one of the great political talents of his generation. Clinton fundraiser and White House staffer, Chicago congressman and chairman of House Democrats’ campaign committee when they overturned a Republican majority in 2006: he’s done it all.

He gave up a House leadership post to be Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff; he gave that up to run for mayor — the job that every traditional Chicago politician considers far more important than anything (said with a derisive curl of lip) “out of town.”

Emanuel’s decision and his robust victory margin suggested that he intended to stay at 121 North LaSalle Street about as long as the 20-plus years of the ally he replaced, Richard M. Daley, and his father before him. Instead he’ll serve just eight.

Emanuel inherited a city whose electorate was divided roughly equally between blacks on the South and West Sides, Hispanics on the West and Northwest Sides and gentry liberals running ever farther inland from the lakefront. It had a great economic heritage and enjoyed robust growth in the 1990s.

It has been downhill since. Chicago and Illinois have been hobbled by metastasizing pension obligations that are frozen in place by state courts and state House Speaker (for all but two years since 1982!) Michael Madigan. Taxes have been rising: shoppers on North Michigan Avenue pay the nation’s highest taxes.

Chicagoans have been voting with their feet. Metro Chicago has by far the highest percentage of domestic out-migration of any major metropolitan area, and net outflow this decade amounts to 5 percent of the 2010 population. In particular, blacks have been leaving metro Chicago for Atlanta and other points south.

Emanuel’s electoral base has been lakefront liberals, plus a plurality of whichever minority group hasn’t produced his main opponent. That was blacks in 2015, but his standing with black voters has been hurt by his concealment during electoral season of a videotape of police shooting a young black man.

At the same time Emanuel acquiesced in Obama administration oversight of the city’s police department. And police officers’ retreat from proactive policing has led to enormous increases in shootings and homicides.

I happened to be in Chicago in the early weeks of December 2008, and saw the celebratory air of a city festooned with posters hailing the new president — the first president Chicago ever produced. But after leaving office in January 2017, Obama has not moved back to Chicago, and only visited briefly. Hope and change is not in the air.

Chicago is one of the great creations of mankind. A frontier post in 1833 was one of the world’s great cities just 60 years later, showing off in the Columbian Exposition of 1893 its new lakefront parks, its new electric light systems, its sanitary canal channeling wastewater away from Lake Michigan, its pioneering skyscrapers, and enormous stockyards and factories.

Now the economic foundations of the metropolis are being drained and undermined to provide the generous pensions of long-retired public employees, many of whom now live in income-tax-free Florida. Public schools are closing, services are being reduced, and police patrols have been pulled back.

That looks like a future of decline for Chicago and maybe for America too. Democrats have shown no interest in reducing the entitlements of even future retirees, not since Bill Clinton broke off negotiations with Newt Gingrich amid the impeachment crisis of 1998. The same goes for Donald Trump, and no Republican seems to be raising the issue as George W. Bush did in 2005.

It’s not a good sign — it’s like a cold wind coming off Lake Michigan — that even as shrewd and well-connected a politician as Rahm Emanuel doesn’t see a viable way forward.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/rahm-emanuel-has-given-up-on-chicago-and-its-a-bad-sign-for-all-of-america

Lori Lightfoot: What challenges lie ahead for Chicago's new mayor?
By Ritu Prasad
BBC News
3 hours ago

Chicago made history on Tuesday by electing Lori Lightfoot, the city's first openly gay, black female mayor.

In a historic battle between two black female candidates, the 56-year-old Democrat defeated Toni Preckwinkle, a longtime Chicago politician who has led the local Democratic party.

Ms Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor who has never held political office before, will replace Rahm Emanuel, former President Barack Obama's chief of staff and the city's mayor for nearly a decade.

She also carries the mantle of Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor who served from 1983 to his death in 1987. And with African Americans making up around 30% of the city's population, it's notable that Chicago hasn't seen a black mayor since the 1980s.

"She inspired hope, even optimism, but she'll face pressure to deliver, or risk disappointing the people who backed her," says Peter Slevin, a professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and former Chicago bureau chief for the Washington Post.

"In Lightfoot, Chicago voters placed a big bet that a political outsider can do what a long line of professional politicians could not, and that's deliver a safer city with better schools and more investment in forgotten neighbourhoods."

Chicago elects black gay woman as mayor

But the job of leading the country's third largest city comes with its challenges. Here are some of the issues Ms Lightfoot will face when she takes office.

Corruption

A February report using Department of Justice data by the University of Illinois found that Chicago was the most corrupt US city, based on the number of corruption convictions from 1976 to 2017.

Over 30 city council members have been linked to corruption cases in that time. In January, the city's longest-serving alderman Edward Burke was charged with attempted extortion for allegedly trying to use his political position to drive business at his private law firm.

The 14th Ward Democrat, who has denied the allegations, won his re-election in February despite the charges.

His case, however, had a big impact on the mayoral race. Ms Preckwinkle's association with Mr Burke hindered her prospects, Lynn Sweet, the Chicago Sun-Times' Washington Bureau Chief, told the BBC.

"There is this unfolding corruption scandal that's taking place at the same time as the mayoral campaign, and that also has been a factor that has helped Lightfoot emerge from the crowded field."

Ms Sweet adds that this new mayor will need to foster productive relationships with a city council with many new members - including some new faces who "may feel emboldened, creating a new dynamic".

During a debate last month, Ms Lightfoot promised Chicagoans she would send the city's corrupt political machine "to its grave, once and for all".

Gun and gang violence

Despite strict gun laws within Illinois, Chicago's gun violence continues to make national headlines as weapons pour in from neighbouring states. The city's shootings have long been used by gun-rights advocates as proof that strict laws do not stop violence.

Chicago Police announced a 24% reduction in shootings so far this year, building on trends from 2018.

The department's report for 2018 saw a 15% drop in the number of murders - the biggest reduction of any major US city. Murders as a result of a shooting have declined 31% in the city since 2016, police said.

As a part of an initiative between police and Mayor Emanuel, in the last two years, the department has hired over 1,000 more officers, obtained new technology and opened new strategic decision support centres across the city.

But there's still a sense of frustration that Ms Lightfoot will need to address - particularly given her former role as head of Chicago's police board and accountability taskforce.

Police reform

"As the city's murder toll rose, an increasing number of Chicagoans, especially African Americans, lost faith in the police department," Prof Slevin says.

In 2014, the killing of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager, by a white police officer sparked nationwide outrage and protests of police brutality. The incident led to a federal investigation of the city's police that found a pattern of racial discrimination and use of excessive force by Chicago police.

This January, a federal judge approved a plan for dozens of reforms for Chicago's police force that was compiled by the city and the state attorney general, with input from the public and police. The areas of reform include officer training, crisis intervention, mental health and use-of-force policies, WBEZ reported.

"Lightfoot was prominent in calling for police reforms and now she'll have to find a way to follow through," Prof Slevin says. "She told voters that she wants police to work more closely with residents and to be held accountable when they break the rules."

While she chaired the Chicago Police Board, the civilian group fired around 75% of officers accused of misconduct - compared to 40% in prior years, according to the Chicago Tribune.

And in the wake of the Jussie Smollett alleged hoax case, the national eye has once again turned to Chicago's police and justice departments.

Ms Sweet says the new mayor will probably be tasked with helping move forward in a productive way from that case.

"The next big decision will be whether or not the current police Superintendent, Eddie Johnson, is kept on."

Failing schools

In 2018, close to half of Chicago schools were underperforming by the state's new accountability system, according to the Illinois Report Card.

Of those, 40% were high schools, and nearly all of the underperforming schools were on the city's South Side, which is primarily populated by the African-American community, education news site Chalkbeat reported.

"Tens of thousands of black residents moved out of the city, in fact, to escape violence and substandard schools," Prof Slevin says.

But in fixing schools along with other aspects of Chicago's public services and infrastructure, Ms Lightfoot will have to work with a tight budget, he adds.

"She won't have much money to play with, given the city's budget deficit and its underfunded pensions."

And the mayor's office is still recovering from public backlash over the 2013 decision to shutter 50 public schools in predominantly African-American neighbourhoods - the largest school closure in the city's history.

As the third largest US city, Chicago boasts global name recognition, but views of the Windy City are not always favourable, marred by associations with gun violence and corruption.

"One of the jobs of the mayor is to sell the city to the world," Ms Sweet says. "Chicago is going to lose star power with the departure of Rahm Emanuel."

Mr Emanuel, who was former President Barack Obama's first chief of staff, "has a larger than life personality" in addition to being a mainstay on national television, Ms Sweet notes.

"It remains to be seen whether the new mayor can add some pizzazz on their own to be able to sell - to continue to sell - Chicago to the nation and the world."

Chicago's voters have indicated they're ready for big changes.

Moving forward now, Ms Sweet says: "The challenge of the new mayor is to unite the city behind her."

Videos at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47792311

Chicago Democrats Created the most Corrupt, Violent & Self-Segregated City in the Country
Published June 8, 2019

Mayor-elect Refers to Spate of Chicago Shootings as “Summer Violence Season"

It was a warm but deadly weekend in the Windy City. From early Saturday morning until late Sunday morning 24 people were shot in Chicago. Casualties included at least three children under the age of 13. Five adults were murdered over the weekend.

In the West Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s southwest side, six people were shot as a baby shower was taking place. On Saturday evening, around 6:30 p.m., approximately 20 children were playing in the front yard of a home in the 6300 block of South Seeley Avenue when shots rang out. After it was over, six people were wounded including an eight-year-old boy, who was shot in the chest and a 10-year-old girl, who was shot in the shin.

The children were taken to Comer Children’s Hospital where they were stabilized. The four wounded adults were taken to other hospitals in the area. A 29-year-old woman, shot in the shoulder and chest, is still in critical condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center.

“The ones that were doing the shooting, none of them got shot,” said Richard Nix, whose oldest grandson was hosting the event. “It’s just all the innocent people.”

Nix described the panic as children were bottlenecked at the door, falling on top of each other as they tried to escape the bullets.

“We were trying to pick the kids up, get the kids out of the way.... They were going to get crushed,” Nix said. “It was nothing but kids in front of the house, sitting on the porch. They was just playing, and the shooting went off.”

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi asked the public for help locating suspects in the shooting in a tweet. Guglielmi also tweeted, “Individuals on the scene are not being cooperative with detectives.”    

Then on Sunday, Guglielmi tweeted again: “Prayers are with the victims from this despicable shooting. While info and cooperation are very limited, detectives have been working around the clock on this and we suspect a possible motive is retaliation from an earlier incident.”

Similar violence erupted in other parts of the city over the weekend. Chicago police usually see a spike in violence when the weather gets warmer and both weekend days saw temperatures in the 60s — the warmest days so far this year in Chicago.

On the west side of the city in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, three people were shot on the 3900 block of West Wilcox Street in the early hours of Sunday morning. A 34-year old man, a 33-year-old man, and a 26 year-old-man were taken to area hospitals with arm and leg wounds.

Then in the Englewood neighborhood, police were called to a home on South Normal Boulevard where they found a 52-year-old man dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Police believe that this incident may have been a domestic dispute, and they have a “person of interest” in custody.

Also Sunday morning, police in the Woodlawn neighborhood were called to a shooting on the 6600 block of South Maryland Avenue. They found a 32-year-old man, who had been shot several times in the back. The man was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later. No arrests have yet been made in this case.

On Saturday afternoon, 19-year-old Demonte Davis was killed in an incident in Morgan Park. Another man, a 22-year-old was wounded in that incident.

After such a terrible and bloody weekend, you might think that the incoming mayor of the city would be seething over the deaths of her citizens and vowing vengeance on those who perpetrated these heinous crimes. But Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot (shown above) seems to believe that such violence is a seasonal thing.

“We’re going to be heading soon into the summer violence season,” Lightfoot told CNN. “After that’s over, we’ll evaluate at that point, but I’m going to be working closely with the (police) superintendent and with his executive team to make sure that we keep our neighborhoods safe.”

“Summer violence season”? Really?

It sounds as if Chicago’s next mayor believes that gang violence is a seasonal thing like mosquitoes or sunburns. One envisions future community public service announcements during the summer: “Remember, it’s warm outside, so don’t forget your sunscreen and your bullet-proof vests!”

CBS Chicago
Chicago Ranked ‘Rattiest’ City For Fifth Year Running
Syndicated Local – CBS Chicago 9 hrs ago

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago has been ranked the country’s rattiest city for the fifth straight year, according to a report by Orkin.

The report ranked its top 50 rattiest cities, with second and third places going to Los Angeles and New York respectively.

Regions were ranked by the number of new rodent treatments performed from September 2018 to September 2019, according to Orkin.

As winter approaches, rodents and pests seek warmer areas and head indoors. According to the National Pest Management Association, 24% of homeowners report mice infestations specifically in winter.

“Unfortunately, residential properties offer the ideal habitat for rodents because of access to food and water sources, potential entry points and hiding places,” said Chelle Hartzer, an Orkin entomologist. “A rat can squeeze through an opening as small as a quarter, while a mouse can wedge its way into a hole smaller than a dime.”

The most common rodent pests in the United States are the house mouse, the Norway rat and the roof rat, according to Orkin.

Orkin recommends the following steps to help prevent rats and mice in the home:

Inspect both inside and outside the home for rodent droppings, burrows and rub marks along baseboards and walls. The more quickly rodents are detected, the better.

Look for possible entry points outside the home and seal cracks and holes if any are found. Install weather strips around entryways, especially under doors, to help block rodents from sneaking inside.

Clean up crumbs and spills as soon as they happen to avoid leaving food residue or sugary substances that can attract rodents. Store food properly by keeping it sealed tightly in rodent-proof containers like plastic bins or metal canisters. Otherwise, rodents may smell food and break into weaker containers.

Cut back trees and bushes to at least three feet away from homes to avoid giving rodents a “jumping off” point to access the gutters, roof or other hidden openings.

AAWWW I like Rahm Emanuel the man..
he might not have been a pristine mayor but I like him..

Published 3 hours ago
Illinois city approves using marijuana taxes to fund reparations program
By Louis Casiano | Fox News

Lawmakers in a Chicago suburb earlier this week approved using taxes from recreational marijuana sales to establish a local reparations program.

The money will go toward job training and other benefits for Evanston's black population, the Pioneer Press reported.

“We can implement funding to directly invest in black Evanston,” said Ald. Robin Rue Simmons, who proposed the reparations bill.

Simmons said the source of the funds was especially appropriate, citing the "war on drugs" that has led to increased incarceration rates among African-Americans, particularly for marijuana-related offenses.

The 8-1 vote comes as the city's black population has dipped from 22.5 percent in 2000 to just under 17 percent in 2017, the paper reported.

Supporters of the program say it will help address the lingering effects of slavery and discrimination, per the Pioneer Press.

The fund will be capped at $10 million, while the city estimates that the taxes from recreational marijuana sales could generate between $500,000 and $750,000 annually.

The idea of reparations to compensate the descendants of slaves has gained traction among progressives while a majority of conservatives oppose it.

Marianne Williamson, a spiritual advisor and 2020 presidential candidate, unveiled a formal reparations plan earlier this year.

The long-shot Democratic candidate has called for between $200 and $500 billion for a "payment of a debt that is owed."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-marijuana-taxes-fund-reparations-program

2019 in Chicago with one month left:

Shot & Killed: 429
Shot & Wounded: 2109
Total Shot: 2538
Total Homicides: 473

Chicago has the strictest gun laws in America
Chicago hasn't had a Republican Mayor since 1931
Chicago has ALL Democrats in city council

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Chicago's Corruption Continues & Business As Usual In The Streets Under New Mayor Lightfoot

Chiago will always be a pit..
It has about 40 high power gangs..
but-- past decade crime has been slowly going down..
Those gangs have outlived their time, fer sure.

Stats at www.heyjackass.com proves that Chicago is a very dangerous place.

The Wise And Powerful wrote:

Stats at www.heyjackass.com proves that Chicago is a very dangerous place.

heyjackass.com <-- BWAHAA what a joke..
sheesh Obi, sigh

Temple wrote:

The Wise And Powerful wrote:

Stats at www.heyjackass.com proves that Chicago is a very dangerous place.

heyjackass.com <-- BWAHAA what a joke..
sheesh Obi, sigh

Click the link, Temple.

Would you really wanna live that city, or would Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Washington D.C. be more to your safe zone??

The Wise And Powerful wrote:

Temple wrote:

The Wise And Powerful wrote:

Stats at www.heyjackass.com proves that Chicago is a very dangerous place.

heyjackass.com <-- BWAHAA what a joke..
sheesh Obi, sigh

Click the link, Temple.

Would you really wanna live that city, or would Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Washington D.C. be more to your safe zone??

No, I wouldn't want to live in those cities..
however; the article was about ;
Chicago's Crime Rate Down for 3rd Consecutive Year
and that is a good thing.

CHICAGO, IL CRIME ANALYTICS

With a crime rate of 43 per one thousand residents, Chicago has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 23. Within Illinois, more than 95% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Chicago. In fact, after researching dangerous places to live, NeighborhoodScout found Chicago to be one of the top 100 most dangerous cities in the U.S.A.

Importantly, when you compare Chicago to other communities of similar population, then Chicago crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Chicago does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Chicago does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Chicago.

For Chicago, we found that the violent crime rate is one of the highest in the nation, across communities of all sizes (both large and small). Violent offenses tracked included rape, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, armed robbery, and aggravated assault, including assault with a deadly weapon. According to NeighborhoodScout's analysis of FBI reported crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of one of these crimes in Chicago is one in 99.

Significantly, based on the number of murders reported by the FBI and the number of residents living in the city, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that Chicago experiences one of the higher murder rates in the nation when compared with cities and towns for all sizes of population, from the largest to the smallest.

In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Chicago is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Chicago, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 31, which is a rate of 32 per one thousand population.

Importantly, we found that Chicago has one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation according to our analysis of FBI crime data. This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. In fact, your chance of getting your car stolen if you live in Chicago is one in 267.

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/il/chicago/crime

Temple wrote:

How many killed or how bad it is Chicago's Crime Rate is Down for 3rd Consecutive Year

Grackle is right. You are an idiot.

Chicago has been crime ridden for decades.

Grackle wrote:

Temple wrote:

heyjackass.com <-- BWAHAA what a joke..
sheesh Obi, sigh Rolling Eyes

This goes to show what I've been sayin' ...This asshole doesn't even look at what's posted before flapping his maw to reply to it ...Sight unseen, he calls it a joke then ridicules Obi for posting it

I don't know where Temple lives now, but I believe he went to college in Madison, Wisconsin. Crime rates there aren't too much better than Chicago. Both cities are run by Democrats.

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/wi/madison/crime

Denver is just as bad

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/co/denver/crime another Democrat run city

My city isn't much better - also Democrat run:

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/co/aurora/crime