Chicago, like so many of our major cities, is out of control. Homelessness, smash-and-grab robberies, carjackings, gangs effectively taking over parts of the city – Chicago is in free fall. On Sunday, another incident in Chicago’s meltdown was revealed when the Chicago Police Department canceled the city’s Cinco de Mayo parade “out of an abundance of caution,” due to gang violence and large-scale fighting in the area of the parade.
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Families in Democrat-run Chicago hoping to enjoy a Cinco de Mayo parade will have to wait until next year – after the city canceled the festivities due to “gang violence.”
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) announced Sunday that the Cinco de Mayo Parade was canceled “out of an abundance of caution… to protect the safety of all in attendance, including families and children.”
Families were forced to pack up and head home after reports of large-scale fights in the area.
“This decision was made in agreement between CPD’s 10th District, elected officials, and parade organizers, following gang violence in the area,” CPD said in a statement.
This is the really alarming bit, that the story – or the Chicago PD – almost seems to downplay:
The department said it arrested multiple people on unspecified gun charges.
Chicago is a mess. The city has suffered from years, nay, decades of incompetent government, brought about mostly by the citizenry voting out one incompetent city official only to vote in an even less competent city official. What’s worse is that Cook County and Chicago, as is the case in many blue states, essentially control the rest of the state politically–meaning that all of Illinois suffers under these incompetent politicians.
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As of this writing, there have been four people killed and 23 wounded by gunfire in Chicago this weekend alone, ranging in age from 17 to 49. This is a spring weekend in the Windy City for you, folks. At the moment the numbers above were noted, the list was still being updated. It’s likely that by midnight on Sunday, the number will have gone up.
The Chicago Police is doing the best it can with what it is allowed to work with, and canceling the parade was probably the right call. But it’s a sad pass we’ve come to when the town that has been referred to as America’s Second City is so out of control, that the police can’t guarantee the safety of the general public while they attend a parade.
Government, at every level, has two primary purposes: To protect the citizens’ liberty and to protect the citizens’ property. In this Chicago has failed, and continues to fail. It’s time the voters in the Windy City hire a better class of public servant.
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