{"id":1145495,"date":"2021-12-23T08:19:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T13:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1145495"},"modified":"2021-12-23T08:19:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T13:19:38","slug":"lightfoots-411-million-crime-reduction-plan-will-fund-government-housing-public-parks-other-holistic-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lightfoots-411-million-crime-reduction-plan-will-fund-government-housing-public-parks-other-holistic-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightfoot\u2019s $411 Million Crime Reduction Plan Will Fund Government Housing, Public Parks, Other \u2018Holistic\u2019 Services"},"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\">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%2Flightfoots-411-million-crime-reduction-plan-will-fund-government-housing-public-parks-other-holistic-services%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=1145495&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>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a plan to reduce violent crime \u2014 by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on social programs.<\/p>\n<p>Violent crime in Chicago has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lightfoots-vaccine-rules-will-slam-businesses-already-coping-with-surge-in-violent-crime\">increased<\/a> by 7.5% since 2019 \u2014 including a 100% increase in fatal shootings for some neighborhoods. To address this, the Democratic official\u2019s \u201cOur City, Our Safety\u201d initiative, first introduced over a year ago, \u2014 which comes with a $411.6 million price tag \u2014 will take a \u201cholistic approach\u201d to violent crime prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may not call all of these things part of the tools of public safety, but they absolutely fundamentally are,\u201d Lightfoot said in an interview with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2021\/12\/15\/22747091\/violence-prevention-budget-lightfoot-our-city-safety\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>. \u201cBecause when people are healthy, when communities are vibrant, when folks feel like they have ownership of the geography under their feet, communities thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the outlet, Lightfoot\u2019s plan will include:<\/p>\n<p>$85 million on violence intervention, including victim services, street outreach and other violence reduction programs$62 million for affordable housing and homeless programs$80 million for assistance to families and youth jobs$40 million for health and wellness programs$114.6 million for community development and parks$30 million for small business<\/p>\n<p>The plan targets 15 of the city\u2019s most violent areas. Since the onset of COVID-19, several of the areas have seen sustained increases in fatal shootings \u2014 for example, a 450% rise in West Pullman, a 104% rise in North Lawndale, and a 100% rise in East Garfield Park.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to homicide, Chicago has not been immune to a nationwide trend of smash-and-grab looting \u2014 in which packs of thieves raid retail stores, often assaulting employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey went for the more expensive bikes,\u201d BFF Bikes owner Gillian Forsyth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lightfoots-vaccine-rules-will-slam-businesses-already-coping-with-surge-in-violent-crime\">told<\/a> CBS Chicago. \u201cThey kind of knew what they were looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s frightening. It\u2019s really frightening,\u201d she continued. \u201cThey ran off down the alley next to the church here, and you can see them put the bikes in their car \u2014 and they just drove off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019re like, as a small business, worried about constantly being robbed like that \u2014 we\u2019re very easy to break into \u2014 and we\u2019re not getting any response,\u201d Forsyth added, \u201cand I\u2019m not blaming the police or anything \u2014 I\u2019m sure they have a multitude of cases. There were five bike shops broken into in the space of two or three weeks. There doesn\u2019t seem to be a collaborative effort, to solve this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Chicago Police Department is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-to-still-go-after-convicted-hate-crime-hoaxer-jussie-smollett-for-130k-in-police-costs\">demanding<\/a> that actor Jussie Smollett \u2014 who drained over $130,000 in public safety resources by staging a fake hate crime \u2014 repay the taxpayer funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe City filed a civil lawsuit against Jussie Smollett to recover costs incurred by the Chicago Police Department investigating what the City believed to be Smollett\u2019s false police reports that he was a victim of a hate crime,\u201d the city said in a statement. \u201cWhile using a different standard of proof, the jury\u2019s finding of guilt convicting Jussie Smollett of criminal charges stemming from the incident confirms that the City was correct in bringing its civil lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a plan to reduce violent crime \u2014 by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on social programs. Violent crime in Chicago has increased by 7.5% since 2019 \u2014 including a 100% increase in fatal shootings for some neighborhoods. To address this, the Democratic official\u2019s \u201cOur City, Our Safety\u201d initiative, first &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"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-1145495","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\/1145495","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145495\/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=1145495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}