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Chicago Mayor Blames Retailers for Increased Crime and Lootings in City

Another Democrat hell-hole.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed retailers for not protecting themselves enough from the criminals and looters in the city.

It’s their fault that the city is becoming unbearable to do business in.

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Lightfoot, a committed leftist, can’t understand why they just don’t hire more security guards.
WOW!

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed retailers for not making safety a priority amid a string of smash-and-grab thefts at retail stores in recent months.

“We still have retailers that won’t institute plans like having security officers in their stores, making sure that they’ve got cameras that are actually operational, locking up their merchandise at night, chaining high-end bags. These purses can be something that is attracting a lot of organized retail theft units,” Lightfoot said Monday.

Rob Karr, the president and CEO of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, said Chicago businesses need the “fingerprinting among leadership to stop.”

Groups of looters in masks have stormed stores in orchestrated plots to steal thousands of dollars worth of merchandise in downtown Chicago and the city’s suburbs.
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carpediem · 61-69, M
What if a store had security guards? So a mob from the southside comes up to the Gold Coast and storms a high end store. How do they stop them? Use a weapon? What if one or more crooks get shot during the act? That's ok?

No. It would be another couple days of riots, looting, burning and mayhem. The security guard would be arrested and tried in the media. His/her life would be over.

The mayor is a complete imbecile. Retailers are struggling because no one wants to go downtown to leisurely browse and shop Michigan Ave any more. It's too dangerous. Hiring private security won't solve that. Police work, locking up criminals, appropriate bail and prosecutions will. But that doesn't happen.
SW-User
@carpediem Security guards are systemic racism and homophobia and all that noise and bullshit.
carpediem · 61-69, M
@SW-User Exactly. Yet this airhead is whining that retailers need to hire and pay for security to protect their goods. Who wants to do business in a place like that?
PatKirby · M
@carpediem Yep, and if she keeps it up these businesses may actually leave town taking their tax base with them.