Chicago congressman Raymond Lopez blames the city’s crimes on the political elite’s “criminal love”, while the mayor’s touts reported a decline in overall crime.
“We have a political elite who falls in love with crime, encourage crime, promote our police, demonize[s] They work every day and raise the perpetrators as victims of society itself. “Lopez said “Fox Report”,” Sunday. “That chaos brings us into what we are today.”
At a congressional hearing in March Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Claims the city’s 2024 murders reached “the lowest number in five years [his] lead. “This is because Chicago has been named the country’s homicide capital for the 13th consecutive year. Analysis via WirePoints.
Lopez accused Johnson and other politicians of what they call Chicago “ignoring human life.”
““In Chicago City, now for the 13th consecutive year, life is so high for humanity that you can actually have a group of 100 teenagers enjoying a warm day, almost hoping to shoot at least two or three,” Lopez said.
“In fact, we saw a 15-year-old child shot dead in a magnificent miles along the crowd, only two days ago,” Lopez continued. “And many of our politicians, such as Brandon Johnson and others, continue to make excuses and continue to rationalize this behavior rather than keeping them and their parents accountable for what is going on.”
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at the same time, Chicago Police Department The city reportedly saw a 10% reduction in murders compared to 2024 and a 17% drop in crime in 2025.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson at the inauguration ceremony at the Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago on May 15, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Lopez accused the mayor of lying about real crime statistics and accused the reduction in reported crimes and the police of fewer reports of police calls.
“People stop calling 911 anymore,” Lopez said. “People are scared. Police can’t get the job done because of the cancellation of shooting detection technology and other things.”
Oldman continues to argue that politicians “denied” Crime Number In highways or county roads, it is considered to be a place outside the city. “South and West sides [of Chicago] He added that it was mainly the African American community “particularly affected by crime.”
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“Your entrepreneurs are trying to pursue American dreams and are destroyed, shopping and destroyed simply because of location because the mayor refuses to call the community to fulfill their actions.”
“When you look at robbery, beating, attacks, people don’t call 911 at all,” Lopez insists. “If that’s why you’re going to win the victory circle, people refuse to call 911, then your job is really bad and really doesn’t understand the fact that crime hasn’t changed, it’s just that people are used to the fact that adapting to it.“
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