{"id":1095887,"date":"2021-12-07T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095887"},"modified":"2021-12-07T18:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:45:39","slug":"fact-check-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-claims-most-crime-is-down-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-claims-most-crime-is-down-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Claims Most Crime is Down in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ffact-check-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-claims-most-crime-is-down-in-chicago%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=1095887&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2-11-21-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-speech-ap-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">CLAIM: Aside from murder, crime is down in most categories in the City of Chicago, despite popular media perceptions.<\/p>\n<p>VERDICT: FALSE. While some crimes are down, others have risen with murder, including theft and criminal sexual assault.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed Monday that other than murder, the city\u2019s crime rates are mostly trending down. But the Chicago Police Department\u2019s own numbers disagree, showing that crime is up in many other categories.<\/p>\n<p>During a Monday press conference, Lightfoot addressed the fact that the Windy City seems poised to surge well beyond 800 murders this year for the first time in decades. During her response to the question, though, Lightfoot made the false statement that only murder is up while other crime is down.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot dismissed the soaring murder rate as merely in keeping with rising rates in other cities. She went on to claim that crime in most other categories are at 25-year lows, <i>Crain\u2019s<\/i> reporter A.D. Quig said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"14.25\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Q for Mayor Lori Lightfoot today about Chicago soon surpassing 800 homicides. &#8220;This is a very challenging time,&#8221; she says, but New York, St. Louis, Austin are also seeing high crime. &#8220;We&#8217;re focused on gangs, we&#8217;re focused on guns.&#8221; Every other crime category is at 25-year-lows.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 A.D. Quig (@ad_quig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ad_quig\/status\/1467962064568262665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But the Chicago Police Department\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/home.chicagopolice.org\/statistics-data\/crime-statistics\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistics<\/a> shatter Lightfoot\u2019s claim that crime is down in most other categories.<\/p>\n<p>CPD numbers, for instance, show that sexual assault is up 27%, theft is up 19 percent, and car theft is up six percent. The numbers also show that non-fatal shootings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/sites\/vrd\/home.html\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up 8.2 percent<\/a> compared to this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, carjackings \u2014 which is a category all its own because of the violence of the crime \u2014 are up by almost one third, with more than 1,250 carjackings reported this year. And there are still three weeks to go before the year ends.<\/p>\n<p>Robbery, aggravated battery, and burglary have shown declines. Burglary dropped 26%, which may be a result of the fact that more people are at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s false statement came on the heels of yet another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/06\/30-shot-6-killed-during-weekend-in-lori-lightfoots-chicago\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly weekend<\/a>. Thirty-six Chicagoans were shot, with six of them killed, amid the city\u2019s out of control violence.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAIM: Aside from murder, crime is down in most categories in the City of Chicago, despite popular media perceptions. VERDICT: FALSE. 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