A seemingly delusional Chicago police superintendent told reporters that “we’ve seen a steady downtrend in violence since the beginning of the year. It’s not success, but it is some progress, and it does give us room for encouragement.” Johnson skirted the fact that Chicago ranks as one of the strictest gun control cities in the nation, and instead directed blame to weak gun laws in neighboring states, an endemic gang culture that ensnares children at younger ages, and a “broken and overwhelmed” judicial system that releases violent offenders too soon. Anything other than the dismal economy of course.
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