Chicago City Wire

Radio show host Dan Proft again called out Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot for overseeing a dysfunctional policy response to rising crime rates in the city.

"@LoriLightfoot says I'm 'scaring' suburbanites with 'false narratives,'" Proft said on Twitter. "I guess that means suburban prosecutors like Glasgow and Berlin are doing the same. Lori's "Summer of Joy" stats: 1186 shot 213 murdered 80%+ black. Lightfoot & Pritzker are the great protectors of blacks."

Proft’s tweet included a video of an ad criticizing Lightfoot and showing scenes of gun violence that took place in Chicago over the mayor’s so-called “Summer of Joy." 

Proft’s note to “false narratives” comes after Lightfoot made a race-based appeal in the wake of the ad accusing Proft’s People Who Play By The Rules PAC of darkening her skin in an ad.

“News flash," Lightfoot told NBC News. "I’m Black and I’m proud. Everyone knows it. No need to use cheap tricks to darken my skin and try to scare voters with false narratives about Chicago."

Proft said Lightfoot is trying to distract from the crime problem in Chicago and the state by using a race-based argument against the ad.

“That is insane — and par for the course from inveterate race hustlers like Lightfoot and Pritzker trying to misdirect attention away from the fact that she has turned the city over to repeat, violent predators and he aims to do the same statewide with his elimination of cash bail,” Proft told NBC News.

“Their contention is completely untrue and patently absurd. We did nothing to her pigmentation just as we did nothing to pigmentation of our pasty blowhard of a governor. The video of Lightfoot was pulled from the web from her City Club speech.”

Chicago’s crime problem this summer was encapsulated by the 4th of July weekend in which Chicago saw 68 shootings, eight of which resulted in fatalities.

Such weekend outbreaks of gun violence have been more common in Chicago over Lightfoot’s reign.

In a recent interview, former Chief of Detectives for Chicago Police Eugene Roy said the city leadership is failing citizens by refusing to lock up criminals engaging in violent gun offenses, even if they have a prior felony.

“You ask any police officer, why is gun enforcement critical to public safety?” Roy said on Chicago’s Morning Answer.

“And it's because any experienced police officer will tell you that a convicted felon carries a gun for only one of two reasons. Number one, to rob somebody. Or number two, to shoot somebody as long as there's no teeth. These people, these offenders know that if they do get caught with a gun, they're going to laugh at the system. And they're going to get they're going to spend overnight in jail and they're going to be cut loose the next morning. There's no consequences for carrying a weapon on the part of a convicted felon.”

Citadel Securities claims that security concerns played a significant role in the decision to relocate from Chicago to Miami.

“The firms are having difficulty recruiting top talent from across the world to Chicago given the rising and senseless violence in the city,” said Zia Ahmed, a Citadel spokesman, said. “Talent wants to live in cities where they feel safe.”

Other firms to leave include Boeing and Caterpillar.