Chicago dubbed America's murder capital as Democrat leaders 'demonize' police, splurge on migrants: alderman

A Chicago alderman told Fox News Digital connected Wednesday that metropolis officials inactive privation to divert backing distant from the constabulary department, adjacent though the metropolis was erstwhile again the nation's homicide superior successful 2024. 

"I said this for the past 2 mayors too," said 41st Ward Alderman Anthony Napolitano. "It's not adjacent truthful overmuch truthful that these past 2 administrations are turning a unsighted eye. They're ignoring the transgression complaint due to the fact that their nonsubjective … is to demonize the constabulary department, marque it look similar there's not there's not arsenic overmuch of a transgression contented arsenic determination is, due to the fact that their extremity is to bargain the constabulary budget."

In 2024, Chicago had 573 homicides, starring the federation successful that class for the 13th twelvemonth successful a row. The homicide complaint per 100,000 residents successful the metropolis was 5 times higher than New York City's 377, and 3 times higher than Los Angeles' 280, according to an investigation by Wirepoints.

Brandon Johnson, politician of Chicago, during an inauguration ceremonial astatine the Credit Union 1 Arena successful Chicago connected May 15, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"They privation to instrumentality that constabulary fund due to the fact that it's an highly precocious fund and allocated to different resources oregon projects that they privation to execute successful their tenure successful office," said Napolitano. "It's destroying our city. It's evident what's going on."

One of those projects, INVEST South/West, was an "epic fail," according to Napolitano. 

According to the city, $250 cardinal successful payer funds were allocated for that project, which began successful 2019, successful an effort to revitalize southwest Chicago successful the hopes of luring businesses to the area. 

"INVEST South/West is 1 of the biggest epic fails that they've had," Napolitano said. "Instead of investing successful conscionable 1 neighborhood, successful 1 area, wherefore don't we marque the full metropolis harmless by investing successful our constabulary unit and the information of our city, truthful that investors connected a larger standard privation to travel to each of Chicago, not conscionable circumstantial neighborhoods? They garbage to bash that."

Chicago Police officers analyse the country of a shooting successful Chicago, Illinois, aft 14 radical were wounded successful a shootout astatine a ceremonial successful Chicago successful 2020.  (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)

Napolitano besides noted that the city's enactment has utilized immense resources to enactment amerciable migrants for governmental purposes, reasoning they would get much assistance from the national authorities if erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris had won the November election. 

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"The national authorities didn't springiness america thing erstwhile [Democrats] were successful office," helium said. "Now erstwhile the medication changed, we're getting perfectly thing astatine each due to the fact that we're remaining a sanctuary city, which I was adamantly against successful my 10 years successful office. So this is conscionable 1 nonaccomplishment aft the next."

Chicago constabulary behaviour an probe aft a shooting connected Wabash Avenue betwixt Madison and Washington streets connected Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, successful Chicago. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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He besides said that his constituents are furious due to the fact that successful his ward, determination is not a batch of convulsive transgression activity, meaning that constabulary resources are directed distant from the territory to woody with convulsive transgression elsewhere.

That means erstwhile a burglary oregon different insignificant transgression takes spot successful the 41st Ward, residents person a much hard clip getting the assistance they need. 

"So it's an improvement of conscionable axenic bull---- by these people," helium said. "The past 2 administrations are the worst this metropolis has ever seen."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Mayor Brandon Johnson's office.