After being voted out earlier this year, former far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said that other liberal mayors have to be honest about violent crime that is coming to the cities.
“As Democrats, if we do not speak the truth about violent crime in our cities, we will be the worse for it,” Lightfoot said.
“I come to this conversation as a former federal prosecutor. I come to this as a former defense attorney, I am the sister of a returning resident. But I know that there are people in my city that are wreaking havoc every day and need to be off the streets. That’s reality,” Lightfoot continued.
From The Blaze:
Lightfoot appeared to argue for harsher punishment to deter crime, a talking point common among Republicans but not Democrats. "What do we say to, not only the victims of crime, but the people who are terrified about crimes in their neighborhood, most of whom look like us. If we say, ‘yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to arrest, put a case on,’ and the judges and the prosecutors say, ‘you know what? We’re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again,'" she continued. She went on to ask what kind of message they are sending to someone who courageously steps up to volunteer information about shootings in their neighborhood only to see "Pookie walking bold as day back on the street two days later." "You’re telling them that the criminal justice system doesn’t care about victims and witnesses," Lightfoot said.
