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Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski views that as a sickness he
argues has been allowed to fester for too long.
Even as overall murder rates across the country dipped, Chicago
also claimed the top spot for highest murder rate per capita
among big cities at 21.5 per 100,000 population, or three times
the levels of Los Angeles and nearly five times of New York
City.
“It means we have a real problem and we're sick,” Dabrowski told
The Center Square. “Until we get serious, this murder problem is
going to be a drag on the city in terms of attracting people,
attracting businesses and, worse, it's going to keep chasing
people away and chasing businesses away. It's something we have
to get our hands around.”
Dabrowski adds that while Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson often
talks about crime being down in the city, the truth is numbers
are down across the country, just not nearly as much in Chicago.
“It's true the crime is down somewhat, but it's down
dramatically across the country,” he said. “It's barely down
here. You've got places like Jacksonville where murders are down
50%. You've got places like Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Washington D.C., where it's down 30 to 35%. Our murders are only
down 8%. We're just part of the national wave, but we're almost
not participating in that national wave.”
In all, 19 of the top 20 cities for total homicides in 2024 saw
fewer murders than the year before.
“It's kind of sickening that we don't think that we need to have
rule of law,” Dabrowski said. “We have a mayor that makes
apologies for kids doing big crimes as they're just being kids;
we've had a state's attorney that has refused to prosecute in
the way that she should and we have a really low arrest rate,
which is a big result of low police morale due to city officials
that don't support police. It’s a broken chain of criminal
justice.”
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