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Just know that your limited examples are only fooling the fools.

You have cried wolf too many times and now no one believes you.

Normal people have completely soured on the idea that we can hug our way out of these areas completely overrun with crime.

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CPD's incompetence and malice is the reason tough on crime policy is unpopular in Chicago. If voters had even a shred of respect for police here no one would be proposing that we "hug our way out" of the problem. Instead most people are more scared of the police than the criminals.

==Normal people have completely soured on the idea that we can hug our way out of these areas completely overrun with crime.==

Complete strawman, arguing against a policy that nobody has ever proposed. It seems you are the one crying wolf while pointing at everyone else.

Limited examples? The consent decree alone comes from decades of datapoints collected by the Federal government. You should read it.

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