The Two Best Chicago Stories of the Week
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Put the "migrants" in City Hall
Fed up with having Chicago police officers “babysit” asylum-seekers, Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara on Thursday proposed an alternative to district stations: allowing hundreds of migrants to sleep in the lobbies and open hallways at City Hall.
“I don’t think there’s one single one of ’em living in City Hall — whether it’s on the county lobby floor or the City Hall floor. There’s certainly plenty of space to put a couple hundred in there, but I don’t see that happening in their workspace. But they certainly have no problem putting ’em in our workspace,” Catanzara said. “Why be a hypocrite?”
Catanzara said it was “so ridiculous” that “there’s actually mail. Migrants are using police district addresses to receive their mail. They now have CPS out there recruiting migrant children to register for CPS just to have that number in the next two weeks to grab as much tax revenue as they possibly can. Whether these kids come to school or not, they don’t care. This is all a big game to far too many people.”
Mayor Brandon Johnson has made it a priority to, as he put it, “decompress” police stations, but that appears to be a losing battle.
In the last week alone, the number of new migrant arrivals who’ve taken up temporary residence at Chicago police stations has increased 6% to 1,100.
Deputy chief of staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas has warned that Chicago could experience a fivefold increase in arriving migrants — 10 busloads per day, up from two — sent here by Republican governors trying to embarrass and strain Democratic sanctuary cities in the run-up to the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago next August.
Catanzara couldn’t agree more.
“It’s 360 days until this Democratic convention,” he said, “and it’s promising to build up to a real s---show, to be quite honest with you.”
An ardent supporter of Donald Trump, Catanzara said he doesn’t blame Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for busing migrants to Chicago.
“How can you criticize a governor of a state who has had to shoulder the burden of an open border, literally, in his back door and to deal with it primarily on his own? When he said, ‘Enough is enough. You guys want to say your sanctuary. I’m gonna start sending you the problems we’ve been dealing with, and let’s see how you like it.’ I don’t see where that’s political,” Catanzara said.
Did you see that? The FOP president is an "ardent" Trump supporter.
Sue Kia and Hyundai because they're easy to steal.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) announced on Thursday the city is suing automakers Kia and Hyundai for "their failure to include industry-standard engine immobilizers in multiple models of their vehicles," which according to the city, is the reason for the high rate of crimes involving cars.
"The impact of car theft on Chicago residents can be deeply destabilizing, particularly for low- to middle-income workers who have fewer options for getting to work and taking care of families. The failure of Kia and Hyundai to install basic auto-theft prevention technology in these models is sheer negligence, and as a result, a citywide and nationwide crime spree around automobile theft has been unfolding around our eyes," Johnson said in a statement.
The lawsuit is the latest move by the new mayor as public safety continues to be a major issue for the city's residents due to soft-on-crime policies and judicial system. Stolen cars are often used by criminals to carry out other crimes, such as drive-by shootings and robberies, so it is an acceptable loss should they have to ditch it afterwards.
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@Mik said in The Two Best Chicago Stories of the Week:
Wow. It’s the automakers’ fault.
A comment in Kass's column: "Brandon Johnson blaming Kia & Hyundai for rising car theft rates is akin to blaming Old Country Buffet for Lizzo not looking like Halle Berry."
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@George-K said in The Two Best Chicago Stories of the Week:
In Korea, I believe that in an auto accident involving two people, it is not possible for one of the people to have 0% fault. The fact that you were in that location at the time the other car hit your car (for example) means that you have some fault.
(I don't know if it actually has an practical meaning, as if someone goes through a stop light and you have the go light and get hit, I don't think you would have any liability)
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@George-K said in The Two Best Chicago Stories of the Week:
In Korea, I believe that in an auto accident involving two people, it is not possible for one of the people to have 0% fault. The fact that you were in that location at the time the other car hit your car (for example) means that you have some fault.
(I don't know if it actually has an practical meaning, as if someone goes through a stop light and you have the go light and get hit, I don't think you would have any liability)
@taiwan_girl said in The Two Best Chicago Stories of the Week:
I believe that in an auto accident involving two people, it is not possible for one of the people to have 0% fault.
In many cases here that's the same. There are, of course, exceptions - if you're stopped at a light and some guy rear-ends you because he's texting, you should have 0% liability. Insurers will usually negotiate between themselves to assign the amount of liability each client has.
But...
Holding the manufacturer responsible because the car is "easier" to steal?
That's ridiculous on its face.
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@taiwan_girl said in The Two Best Chicago Stories of the Week:
I believe that in an auto accident involving two people, it is not possible for one of the people to have 0% fault.
In many cases here that's the same. There are, of course, exceptions - if you're stopped at a light and some guy rear-ends you because he's texting, you should have 0% liability. Insurers will usually negotiate between themselves to assign the amount of liability each client has.
But...
Holding the manufacturer responsible because the car is "easier" to steal?
That's ridiculous on its face.
@George-K said in The Two Best Chicago Stories of the Week:
Holding the manufacturer responsible because the car is "easier" to steal?
That's ridiculous on its face.
Agree 100%
