Criminal justice reform activists simply want to make things easier for criminals while making normal people’s lives harder. Chicago is a prime example.
Mayor Brandon Johnson is not renewing the city’s contract with SpotShotter, a system that helps police identify the origin of gunshots. As the executive director of United Working Families boasted, “Elections matter. Organizing matters. Today is a new day, where investments in evidence-based, holistic solutions that don’t just respond to violence but prevent it are driving our city’s public safety policy. We know a safer Chicago is on the horizon.”
Cut through the activist gobbledygook, and you begin to understand how they reach that conclusion. “Holistic solutions” mean things that do nothing to track down, arrest, and prosecute criminals but throw money at the community (or, more specifically, at activist organizations) because activists claim crime is just the result of a lack of community investment. They claim that responding to violence is not good enough when their policies indicate they don’t want to respond to violence at all.