Time to pay the piper for Lightfoot's mismanagement

[dtcbnd03]

Originally Posted by Manigault

Has anyone noticed that no one has mentioned what Mayor Lightfoot should have done differently? By the way, she's now pursuing looters relentlessly.

A claim of mismanagement is easy -- what type of action would have been preferable? Its insane to say she is doing it all wrong if a person does not have a clear idea of what doing it right means or the effect of same.

Well said. Its easy to blame but harder to provide the solution. Those people are simply complainers.

Lightfoot did good on the teacher contract / strike. I applaud her there. Then it went quckly downhill. I think she dropped the ball big time with covid and the riots/looters. She should have firmly backed the police (unlike how she blamed them at the Columbus statue), she should have firmly squashed any rioters/looters (again like the Columbus statue mob and the second wave of looters...set up barricades after the first time...stationed police near downtown like they are now...use more aggressive tactics like tear gas and rubber bullets), come out against Kim Foxx hard cause we all knew she was going lightly against looters after the Smollett debacle, and finally she should have opened everything up after the initial 30-45 day covid lockdown because the shutdown is not only increasing the violence, looting etc. but its also increasing our deficit and ruining our economy.

[Curly Q. Bobalink]

Originally Posted by dtcbnd03

Well said. Its easy to blame but harder to provide the solution. Those people are simply complainers.

Lightfoot did good on the teacher contract / strike. I applaud her there. Then it went quckly downhill. I think she dropped the ball big time with covid and the riots/looters. She should have firmly backed the police (unlike how she blamed them at the Columbus statue), she should have firmly squashed any rioters/looters (again like the Columbus statue mob and the second wave of looters...set up barricades after the first time...stationed police near downtown like they are now...use more aggressive tactics like tear gas and rubber bullets), come out against Kim Foxx hard cause we all knew she was going lightly against looters after the Smollett debacle, and finally she should have opened everything up after the initial 30-45 day covid lockdown because the shutdown is not only increasing the violence, looting etc. but its also increasing our deficit and ruining our economy.

Well said.

Ultimately, the solution might be to break up Chicago into fifty different cities, maybe on the "neighborhood" levels. For me, I don't want to live in a city where, if the police shoot a knife-wielding madman who ignores warnings to stop advancing against them in an aggressive manner, the response of many of the residents is to loot and smash up the shopping districts (say "Hi" to Philly for me). But this is how the suburbs were created to begin with - people fleeing behaviors (and the folks who have a higher tolerance for those behaviors) to areas with less of those behaviors and folks who tolerate them. Not that I want to live in Singapore, where residents are caned for littering - but I'd much rather live in Singapore, than Englewood. The whole idea of people with significant different cultural worldviews of "How the world should work", living together in harmony, just doesn't seem to be cutting it in 2020. The problem occurs, when those living in Englewood look around and notice that the people who left, are the same folks who have assets - which fund niceties like, well, schools.

Welcome to 2020. Captain Obvious, over and out.