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The Lightfoot Compendium

A lead-filled, stats-heavy review of Lori Lightfoot's tenure as Chicago's 56th mayor.

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May 17, 2023
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She originally campaigned on public safety while proclaiming that “we can’t afford to elect another mayor who learns about public safety on the job.” As it turned out, she was held back a few grades and by the time the last day of May 2020 rolled around and Floyd season was in full effect, it was obvious there was to be no learning at all.

The Lightfoot Era
Shot & Killed: 2,683
Shot & Wounded: 12,508
Total Shot: 15,191
Total Homicides: 2,945

A mostly peaceful breakdown of the mayoral tenure shows:

  • 2,683 shot & killed

  • 129 stabbed to death

  • 76 beaten to death

  • 57 killed via other means

  • 78 shot by police, 25 fatally

  • 67 self defense incidents, 27 fatal

  • Averaged 10 people shot per day

  • A person shot every 2.5 hours

  • A homicide every 11 hours, 51 minutes

  • Deadliest day: Sunday, May 31, 2020 - 18 homicides

  • Only two days were shooting-free: 11/18/19 & 1/7/20

  • 199 mass shootings for 995 shot, 129 fatally

  • 7 mass shootings with 10 or more victims

  • 2,586 (88%) males killed vs 359 females

  • 2,338 (79%) Blacks, 468 Hispanics, 139 White/other

  • 174 children 12 and younger shot, 23 fatally

  • Homicide age range: 0-96

  • Team Garfield Park led w/ 1,266 shot, 213 fatally

  • 11th District won w/ 350 homicides

  • 201 expressway shootings, 34 fatal

  • 173 selfies

  • 1,497 Shot In The Ass

Clearly, public safety was the priority. What’s not displayed nor likely properly accounted for is the economic damage from the asinine lockdowns and the “outbreak of incredible frustration and anguish” which outside of retardedland and in the real world is better known as “rioting and looting”. See Michigan Ave and/or the Loop. What a disaster.

“In the past seven years, 23,000 people have been shot in this city. That’s a staggering number.”

• Mayoral Candidate Lori Lightfoot, 2/2/19

And speaking about those past seven years (under Rahm), his 2015-2019 term posted fewer casualties even with the record runs of 2016 and part of 2017.

Shot & Killed: 2,335
Shot & Wounded: 11,542
Total Shot: 13,059
Total Homicides: 2,633

While we don’t have complete stats for Rahm’s first term, we’re confident those would be even lower. We suspect that Daley’s final term would be as well.


Mapping Stupidity

Homicides Jan 1, 2020 - May 15, 2023. 2019 not included because we used a different marker and have no idea which ones are post-May 20, 2019 without redoing the whole map. Forget that nonsense.

It may be hard to see some of the lines on the map with all those pesky dots in the way, but the top lead-getters for Lori’s tenure were:

  • Garfield Park: 223 killed, 1,055 wounded

  • Englewood: 225 killed, 1,026 wounded

  • Austin: 250 killed, 950 wounded

  • North Lawndale: 142 killed, 715 wounded

  • Grand Crossing: 119 killed, 602 wounded

These five accounted for 1/3rd of all homicides and wounded. These five were also Lori strongholds in both elections.

The bottom lead-getters were:

  • Edison Park: 2 killed, 0 wounded

  • Mt. Greenwood: 0 killed, 3 wounded

  • O’Hare: 1 killed, 4 wounded

  • Forest Glen: 1 killed, 4 wounded

  • Norwood Park: 1 killed, 9 wounded

These five were not Lori strongholds. Go figure.


Inconvenient Tweets 🤡

There are so many stupid tweets to choose from, but here are a few where the first one in particular is THE one we’ll never forget.

Nice ratio. F.U.L.L.
Oh well.
Just kidding! You can stop bussing now!

Side note, this is probably our favorite tweet of the Lightfoot era:

HOW DARE YOU!

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May 17Liked by HeyJackass!

It was a very " Fiery " term no doubt that often involved " Mutual Combat "!

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