Illinois, and particularly Chicago, have long been known as among the bluest of blue states, places where sanity, safety and common sense are outlawed, and not just figuratively. Among other things, Chicago has prevented its police from chasing criminals in most cases. All thugs have to do to get away with crimes is run away. And in September of 2022 at my home blog, I wrote Illinois: State Of Insanity about upcoming changes in the law that benefited criminals even more:
Graphic: Twitter Post
No bail for kidnapping, robbery and second-degree murder?! That’s a failed state, a state of anarchy.
I wrote, in part:
Then there’s the next level of insanity. If the police are prevented from making arrests, or are afraid to make arrests, if prosecutors won’t prosecute, if criminals are released as soon as their paperwork is processed or even before, if there’s no bail, if predators are released from jail after serving a fraction of their rare and short sentences, society is actively falling apart.
That’s a breach of the social contract, one that can’t be easily repaired, if it can be repaired at all. Normal Americans are willing to loan their power to establish law and order to the police and prosecutors and the courts in return for making daily life possible.
And how has that brilliant innovation in social engineering been going? Not so well:
High-priority 911 calls—Priority Level 1 and 2, the ones defined as “imminent threat to life, bodily injury, or major property damage”—are the exact emergencies Chicagoans face every day: shots fired, person shot, assault in progress, armed robbery, domestic battery. In 2019, before the progressive crime wave fully metastasized, 19% of those urgent calls had “no officers available” for immediate response.
By 2021, Wirepoints found that number had exploded to 52%—406,829 high-priority incidents in which dispatchers literally had zero cops to send. In 2022 it hit roughly 60%.
Through all of 2023, 56% of high-priority calls—437,000 of them—sat in backlog with no units available. Even in 2024, through mid-May, getting a response was still a coin-flip 50%: 127,000 out of 256,000 urgent calls in which nobody came.
That’s not “delayed,” that’s “we have no police available to send to you.”
To make things even worse, the Illinois Legislature is considering House Bill 3320, which is designed to attach thousands of dollars in taxes to every gun purchase. This would, of course, price guns out of the reach of many Americans, and particularly the poor, black Illinois residents Democrats so claim to cherish and want to protect, the people who continue to vote for them by enormous margins.
At a recent legislative hearing on HB3320, Dr. Anthony Douglas, a medical resident who is pushing a “Responsibility in Firearm Legislation Act," which appears to be essentially HB3320, testified:
“I think poor people don’t benefit from owning firearms,” Douglas said during a House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force subject matter hearing of the bill Wednesday. “I think more people benefit from access to education, access to resources.”
If they’re dead, they certainly don’t benefit from either, but that’s the kind of irrelevant reality the self-imagined elite like Douglas ignore. One wonders what else Douglas—lesser items than those protected by an express constitutional right—Douglas would deny the poor for their own good? Illinois is fortunate indeed to have people like Douglas to not only tell them what they don’t need, but who will work tirelessly to use the law to deprive them.
As always, reality differs from the utopian plans of Democrats. The invaluable Heather MacDonald notes in the largest 75 counties—Cook County/Chicago is among them—blacks comprise about 15% of the population but commit about 60% of all robberies and murders, for which they’ll be released without bail.
And who are most of their victims? Other black people, people who can’t afford to move to safer cities and states. And if Illinois Democrats get their way, there will be more because they won’t be able to afford to buy guns to protect themselves when there are no police available. That’s even more important because even when they are available, the police are virtually never present when a robbery or murder attempt begins.
Democrats used to try to hide their true intentions and their hatred for Normal Americans of every race. Not anymore, which could theoretically prevent the very black and poor residents of places like Chicago from voting for them.
I won’t be holding my breath.
Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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