- Keith Thornton posted video branding Lightfoot selfish for not supporting cops
- Dispatcher said they’re so short staffed that serious crimes cannot be dealt with
- Thornton said that it took over ten minutes for police car to respond to shooting
- Comes as murders hit 25-year high in the Windy City under Lightfoot’s watch
Murders are at a 25-year high, with 793 recorded so far in a city with 2.7 million people. By comparison, New York City, which has a population of more than eight million, has had 479 murders to date.
On Christmas Day, 24-year-old Giovanni Lozano was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head in Logan Square on the Northwest Side at 10:40pm.
On December 26, Clifford Jeffrey, 37, was shot and killed at 3:20pm in East Garfield Park. And Monday, a 30-year-old man was fatally shot as he walked on the sidewalk in Little Village on the Southwest Side. His name has not yet been released.
Lightfoot has not commented on the Windy City’s carnage, instead posting a video wishing residents a happy Kwanzaa – the African American and Pan-African holiday created in 1966, and celebrated from December 26 until January 2.
The Chicago Tribune on Monday reported that, for 2021, Austin, on the city’s West Side, was the most dangerous neighborhood of the city, with 71 murders.
North Lawndale and Greater Grand Crossing were in second and third place, with slightly over half the tally of Austin – 44 and 40 murders respectively.
The victims were overwhelmingly young, black and male, and likely to have died in gunfire.
Of the 793 victims, 314 were aged 20-29, and 202 were aged 30-39.
Six hundred and 47 were black.
Men accounted for 696, and women for 97.