{"id":1044192,"date":"2021-11-22T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1044192"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:44:36","slug":"malpractice-democratic-alderman-blasts-lori-lightfoot-for-refusing-to-acknowledge-any-fault-for-citys-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/malpractice-democratic-alderman-blasts-lori-lightfoot-for-refusing-to-acknowledge-any-fault-for-citys-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Malpractice\u2019: Democratic Alderman Blasts Lori Lightfoot For \u2018Refusing To Acknowledge Any Fault\u2019 For City\u2019s Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmalpractice-democratic-alderman-blasts-lori-lightfoot-for-refusing-to-acknowledge-any-fault-for-citys-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1044192&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez said Monday that Mayor Lori Lightfoot \u201crefuses to acknowledge any fault\u201d in the city\u2019s ongoing crime wave and that she has \u201clost control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have about five weeks left to the year. We are on track to have over 850 homicides in the city of Chicago with no end in sight, no policy to keep people safe and a mayor who refuses, absolutely refuses to acknowledge any fault from her own administration,\u201d Lopez said during an appearance on Fox News\u2019 \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe likes to say that she is taking on crime as though it\u2019s a public health matter and I tell you that if any doctor treated their patients the way she is treating Chicago in terms of public health they\u2019d be sued for malpractice,\u201d he continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/18\/lori-lightfoot-wnba-game-maskless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Posts Photo Of Herself Maskless At WNBA Game, Appears To Violate Mandates)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The alderman said \u201cnothing has been working\u201d with the mayor\u2019s efforts to combat crime and that she \u201chas lost control of the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Lopez acknowledged that Lightfoot \u201clikes to talk tough,\u201d she has not done \u201cabsolutely nothing\u201d to fight gang violence and would rather blame retailers for looting and robberies. He claimed that residents of Chicago \u201cfeel like they are quite literally under the gun when they walk out of their homes.\u201d Though Lightfoot has suggested the city\u2019s crime wave is a result of \u201croot causes,\u201d Lopez said that does nothing to address the problem of \u201cthe here and now,\u201d which he said must include \u201cputting criminals away\u201d for their illegal actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good people of the city of Chicago are living in fear every day because of her failed policies,\u201d Lopez said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/23\/baltimore-chicago-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Homicides Have Skyrocketed In These Six Democratic Cities. Black People Are Disproportionately The Victims, Data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7295996\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7295996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center at Jackson Park on September 28, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois. \u2013 The 700-million-dollar project has been six years in the making and the center is scheduled to open in 2025. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Violent crime in Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/07\/chicago-politician-that-defunded-police-is-mad-at-a-chicago-politician-that-wont-prosecute-criminals\/\">continues to surge<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/27\/chicago-police-department-superintendent-blames-progressive-policies-crime\/\">murder rate in the city<\/a> has increased 63% from 2019 and 11% from 2020, the Daily Caller previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>Holiday weekends have proven to be particularly bad for gun violence in Chicago. Over the Labor Day weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/06\/four-year-old-boy-among-48-shot-chicago-holiday-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">48 people were shot<\/a> in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/19\/lori-lightfoot-police-union-induce-insurrection-vaccine-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has accused<\/a> the Chicago police of attempting to \u201cinduce an insurrection\u201d of its objection to the city\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/16\/vaccine-mandate-protest-new-york-times-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vaccine mandate<\/a> that requires all municipal employees to reveal their vaccination status or undergo semi-weekly testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez said Monday that Mayor Lori Lightfoot \u201crefuses to acknowledge any fault\u201d in the city\u2019s ongoing crime wave and that she has \u201clost control.\u201dWATCH:\u201cWe still have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}