{"id":1161719,"date":"2021-12-27T15:49:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161719"},"modified":"2021-12-27T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:49:59","slug":"chicago-police-dispatcher-slams-lori-lightfoot-over-rising-crime-youre-a-disgrace-and-im-tired-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-police-dispatcher-slams-lori-lightfoot-over-rising-crime-youre-a-disgrace-and-im-tired-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Police Dispatcher Slams Lori Lightfoot Over Rising Crime: \u2018You\u2019re A Disgrace And I\u2019m Tired Of It\u2019"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fchicago-police-dispatcher-slams-lori-lightfoot-over-rising-crime-youre-a-disgrace-and-im-tired-of-it%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=1161719&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>Keith Thornton Jr. \u2014 a Chicago police dispatcher who was once <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2021\/08\/09\/chicago-police-dispatcher-keith-thornton-ella-smith-officer-killed\/\">praised<\/a> by Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) for his quick thinking and heroic work while on the job&nbsp; \u2014 has now released a video slamming Lightfoot and other city officials such as the Superintendent of Police David Brown for allowing Chicago to become a \u201cdeath zone\u201d due in part to understaffing and lack of police in certain areas.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KATTJR\/videos\/274234451354849\/\">video<\/a> posted late Thursday night last week, Thornton ripped Lightfoot for not caring about Chicago police officers and failing to protect Chicago residents, specifically in the 16th district of the city otherwise known as the Jefferson Park district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we\u2019re talking about the northwest side of Chicago, and this was brought to my attention by several of my officers who have texted me, \u2018OK\u2019 and said that they were scared,\u201d Thornton said via a Facebook live. \u201cThey\u2019re tired of this nonsense. They have no backing and they\u2019re scared of being out there by themselves, working in the 16th District. We\u2019re talking about the 16th District.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CWBChicago <a href=\"https:\/\/cwbchicago.com\/2021\/12\/cpd-dispatcher-fumes-over-lack-of-police-resources-cpd-is-short-manpower-and-you-are-being-lied-to-by-the-mayor.html\">reported<\/a> that, \u201cThe Jefferson Park district was staffed by 268 officers when Brown became superintendent in April 2020. There are 229 assigned to the district this month, according to the Chicago Office of Inspector General.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m going to tell you right now, 16th District is so shorthanded with officers that when you call 9-1-1, you\u2019re not getting a quick response like many other parts of the city,\u201d he continued. \u201cOfficers are not coming to you. And why? Because they can\u2019t be assigned cars to go to you because we have very few officers within these neighborhoods. And it\u2019s nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m not talking about a dog running or barking or a car alarm going off or, \u2018Hey, this guy\u2019s parked in my handicapped spot,&#8217;\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m talking about females being beaten. Shootings \u2014 a shooting came up a few days ago and we couldn\u2019t even get a unit over there. A unit could not even get to that scene until 10 plus minutes later because there was no one,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton\u2019s video came the same day that the Chicago Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/mG5Bi#selection-861.299-871.248\">reported<\/a> an increase in violence in areas of the city that are not known for being dangerous areas:<\/p>\n<p><em>Carjackings continued to increase around the city. Children, seniors and even transit workers found themselves victims in areas that are not known for violence.<\/em><\/p>\n<div data-type=\"text\">\n<p><em>A review of the two years that coincide with the COVID-19 pandemic reveals a dramatic uptick in both homicides and shootings across the city, with a more-than-60% increase in both categories that increased pressure on policymakers to find answers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As for why Lightfoot is allowing crime to happen, Thornton claimed that Lightfoot simply did not care about areas like the 16th district and also only cared about herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hot about it because this mayor does not care about Chicago police officers, period. She doesn\u2019t care about any first responders. She does not care about the d*** city. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re white, black, Asian, Hispanic, other, straight, gay, Democrat, or Republican. She don\u2019t even care about her city workers. All that lady cares about is her f***ing self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I pray you\u2019re watching this because you\u2019re a disgrace and I\u2019m tired of it,\u201d he said toward Lightfoot. \u201cAnd your city is tired of it. Matter of fact, it\u2019s not your city. The city of Chicago is tired of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I know you don\u2019t like me, and that\u2019s OK, because I love you,\u201d he said pointedly, \u201cbut I\u2019m tired of you because you\u2019re an absolute disgrace to everyone within the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis city is burning. And either I can let it burn,\u201d Thornton said at one point.\u201d Either you guys can let it burn or we can stand up, do something about it, and get burned for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to come together,\u201d Thornton concluded, offering to speak with anybody who would help solve the problem of violence, including Lightfoot. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to come together for our area because this is bull s***. Good night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full video can be seen here:<\/p>\n<p><em>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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Thornton Jr. \u2014 a Chicago police dispatcher who was once praised by Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) for his quick thinking and heroic work while on the job\u00a0 \u2014 has now released a video slamming Lightfoot and other city officials such as the Superintendent of Police David Brown for allowing Chicago to become a \u201cdeath &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"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-1161719","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\/1161719","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161719\/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=1161719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}