There was a real piece of stunted local politics taking place in Chicago. Elected officials there were cheering themselves as they passed a resolution calling for an end to the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Not only is this a useless piece of virtue signaling, but there are some severe issues in their city, considering that dozens of murders take place on a weekly basis. 

How about calling for a ceasefire in Chicago, you impotent peacocks?!

And you can add Washington D.C. to the list of municipalities with harsh crime statistics while being run by politicians more useless than a condom vending machine in a convent.

If you may have been wondering if the crime in the Nation’s Capital has abated at all, permit me to throw ice-cold reality on the lack of reporting that has taken place. There have already been close to 50 carjackings, and they are averaging more than two homicides a week. In one three-day span, police reported over 60 car break-ins taking place. And this is during a cold-weather month when crime stats are more sedate. 

Last year, the city experienced a spike in murders, bringing it to a level it had not endured in two decades. There were almost 1,000 killings for the year, representing a staggering jump of 82 percent. And it appears that as the anger and impatience swell with residents, the sloth and inertia from the politicians and authorities in town are rising at an equal level.

This week a community forum was held between civic leaders and citizens to address the wave of crime. Well…they met to discuss things. It appears that there was little in the way of constructive discussions on actively addressing the issues. Attorney General Brian Schwalb sat before the assembled gentry and actually had the stones to tell them - in the face of serious crime realities - that doing his assigned job was not considered to be a solution.

"We as a city and community need to be much more focused on prevention and surrounding young people and their families with resources if we want to be safer in the long run," he told them. "We cannot prosecute and arrest our way out of it."

During a panel, DC residents voiced their frustrations and demanded accountability from city leaders in addressing the violent crime epidemic that's plaguing our nation’s capital.

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s response: “We cannot prosecute and arrest our way out of it.” pic.twitter.com/hEUT8GG7Al

— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) January 31, 2024

The forum was specifically addressing the issue of juvenile crime and juvenile carjackings, and this lawn flamingo of a prosecutor was looking at these residents and declaring that executing his assigned duties was not the solution. 

As a result, you have teens operating with the knowledge that they can run rampant in the city and they will face zero accountability. One father on the panel had a foster son who was arrested for carjacking an Uber driver at the age of 15, and he was all but begging the city to take control. The fact this youth was released in a day with no charges feeds the youths in the community with the confidence to continue and expand their anti-social behavior.

Making those comments from the neutered AG Schwalb even more infuriating is that they were made on the same day that a string of violence was seen in the city. 28-year-old Artell Cunningham was on a personal crime spree stretching out half of a day, involving numerous carjackings and two separate shootings, where he killed one man and placed a former Donald Trump administration official in intensive care with life-threatening injuries. Eventually, Cunningham was gunned down by police after an 11-hour crime spree.

He should not have been on the streets. 

While there is speculation he may have suffered a mental break or ongoing emotional conditions, Cunningham had a prior criminal history. That "history" is somewhat truncated by the actions of the prosecutor’s office. Nearly two years ago to the day, after police were called out for a disturbance, Cunningham became aggressive with the officers He was pledging that he was going to shoot them all, promising to kill each one at the location. Incarceration or institutionalizing this man after such a display was more than reasonable – it seemed required. But D.C. authorities (led by a different district attorney at that time) are not compelled by reason. 

Cunningham was arrested on felony threats. His charges were quickly downgraded to misdemeanor threats to do bodily harm, on the same day of his arrest, per court records. In February, the United States Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia dropped the charges against Cunningham, and the case was closed.

This is what D.C. residents have to contend with. They have soaring crime, youths and criminals behaving with impunity, and the authorities looking them in the eyes as they defiantly tell them they refuse to take action. At some point it might become sensible to relocate to Gaza, for the sake of safer living conditions.