{"id":577754,"date":"2021-06-30T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577754"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:36:18","slug":"lori-lightfoot-claims-racism-and-sexism-driving-about-99-of-criticism-over-chicago-crime-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lori-lightfoot-claims-racism-and-sexism-driving-about-99-of-criticism-over-chicago-crime-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Lightfoot Claims \u2018Racism And Sexism\u2019 Driving \u2018About 99%\u2019 Of Criticism Over Chicago Crime Wave"},"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%2Flori-lightfoot-claims-racism-and-sexism-driving-about-99-of-criticism-over-chicago-crime-wave%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=577754&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\/05\/Lori-Lightfoot-1-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed, on Tuesday night, that the intense criticism, leveled at her office over Chicago\u2019s spiking gun violence, is the result of \u201cracism and sexism\u201d and not her lack of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mayor made the comment during an interview on [Chicago\u2019s PBS affiliate, WTTW]&nbsp;after being asked about questions people have raised over temperament and how she reacts to criticism. The mayor has been known to be tough on staff and confrontational with critics, contributing to significant staff turnover,\u201d the Chicago Tribune reported.<\/p>\n<p>WTTW asked Lightfoot how much of the criticism she\u2019s received over the skyrocketing crime rate has been the result of racism and sexism and she quickly answered, \u201cabout 99%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at my predecessors. Did people say that Rich Daley held tea sessions with people that he (disagreed with)? Rahm Emanuel was a polite guy who was a uniter? No,\u201d Lightfoot told the network. \u201cWomen and people of color are always held to a different standard. I understand that, I\u2019ve known that my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot also claimed crime is down \u2014 an assertion she\u2019s repeated several times this week, though it does not appear the statistics line up with her own assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Johnson noted Wednesday that it appears crime is actually up in the city.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20.706806282723\">\n<p>Lightfoot claimed that \u201cshootings year over year are down.\u201d In fact, shootings have surged 12% compared to the same time last year \u2014 and a whopping 59% compared to this time in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Murders, too, have increased. Chicago has had 326 murders so far in 2021, compared to 323 during the same period in 2020 and 241 in 2019, a 35% rise. The \u201c[h]omicide rate among [b]lacks is 9 times higher than the homicide rate among non-[b]lacks,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/depts\/cdph\/provdrs\/healthy_living\/news\/2021\/june\/chicago-department-of-public-health-releases-the-state-of-health.html\">reported<\/a> the city\u2019s Department of Public Health on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal sexual assaults, such as rape, are also up 22% since last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chicago is facing its highest rate of gun violence since 2016 when the city was mired in a gang war.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot recently made eradicating systemic racism in Chicago a landmark issue of her mayoral tenure. She declared \u201cracism\u201d a \u201cpublic health crisis,\u201d and, to mark the mid-point of her first term as mayor, limited interviews to only female journalists and reporters of color \u2014 a plan that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/il-state-wire-business-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-2b7119002e31896293abcaaa14787559\">quickly got Lightfoot sued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Racism, Lightfoot said in early June, is the driving force behind Chicago\u2019s crime. The Daily Wire reported that Lightfoot \u201cblamed \u2018systemic racism\u2019 for the hardships minority residents face in the city, pledging to use millions of dollars in grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for combatting alleged systemic racism, which she called a \u2018public health crisis.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chicago aldermen, who say that Lightfoot has abrogated her duty to protect Chicago residents, countered that gangs are responsible for Chicago\u2019s crime \u2014 not racism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerational gang life isn\u2019t just something that\u2019s encouraged. It\u2019s almost revered in some neighborhoods,\u201d Alderman Raymond Lopez \u2014 one of Lightfoot\u2019s chief rivals \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/chicago-alderman-gang-violence\">told<\/a> the Washington Examiner. \u201cIf you really want to get to what is at the heart of a lot of this, it is gangs, and it is the borderline collapse of the family unit in many of our neighborhoods \u2026 [Lightfoot] has avoided calling out gangs in our community as a source of violence in our city.\u201d<\/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;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed, on Tuesday night, that the intense criticism, leveled at her office over Chicago\u2019s spiking gun violence, is the result of \u201cracism and sexism\u201d and not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313775,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lori-Lightfoot-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Lori Lightfoot Claims \u2018Racism And Sexism\u2019 Driving \u2018About 99%\u2019 Of Criticism Over Chicago Crime Wave","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lori-Lightfoot-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Lori Lightfoot Claims \u2018Racism And Sexism\u2019 Driving \u2018About 99%\u2019 Of Criticism Over Chicago Crime Wave","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577754","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}