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| Illinois Gov.JB Pritzker lied in live Fox interview about Chicago murder stats | ||
| 2025-10-25 | ||
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Illinois billionaire Governor JB Pritzker tried unsuccessfully to paper over Chicago being crowned the United States' murder capital in a Fox News interview. Appearing on Special Report alongside Bret Baier, the Democrat heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune was grilled by the anchor over why the city had the highest murder rate out of all the major US cities. 'Why does Chicago have the highest murder rate?', Baier asked, with Pritzker saying: 'We're not in the top 30.'
Pritzker clawed for a positive figure to counterbalance the grim finding, saying: 'Our murder rate has been cut in half over the last four years, and every year it has gone down by double digits.'
Pritzker fired back: 'You can pull statistics up, I can too. I am explaining to you that our murder rate has been cut in half. 'Very importantly Bret, we've been doing the things necessary to bring crime down. We've invested in community violence interruption, we've invested in police.' "We've changed the definitions of crime and influenced reporting." The data used on air also highlighted how in 2024 there were 539.8 instances of violent crime per 100,000 residents in the city. There was also 3,472 property crimes per 100,000 residents, with a total of 4,012 crimes for every 100,000 residents in 2024, according to the report. President Donald Trump used the figures when he referred to the Windy City as 'the murder capital of the world' earlier this year. There was some substance to Governor Pritzker's insistence that Chicago is improving, with the 188 homicides recorded between January and June 33 percent fewer than the total for the same period in 2024. This year is the first since 2014 that fewer than 200 murders were recorded in Chicago during the first six months of the year. In a press release dated August 25, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also said shootings had dropped by 38 percent. Those figures have done little to quell Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in the city. Around 200 troops from Texas touched down in the city earlier this month alongside 200 Illinois guardsmen federalized by the Pentagon. Trump even threatened to put Pritzker behind bars for 'failing to protect ICE officers' undertaking operations in the city. A defiant Pritzker told reporters: 'There's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: if you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.' Trump has frequently referred to the city as 'Chiraq', saying that Antifa rioters have put ICE agents at risk as they rounded up illegal immigrants. For over a month, ICE officials have faced daily clashes with protesters at their detention facilities. The state and the city have both sued the administration to block them from sending more troops. While Chicago murders are trending down, the city continues to have a serious image problem. Designer stores along its 'Magic Mile' are frequently ransacked by smash-and-grab raiders, with dystopian illegal street takeovers also paralyzing intersections. Related: Chicago: 2025-10-24 NBA has serious problem with latest gambling investigations Chicago: 2025-10-23 Good Morning Chicago: 2025-10-23 How Germ Theory Sparked The Sanitary Revolution... And Life Expectancy Skyrocketed Related: Murder capital 09/04/2025 Chicago Democrats From America's Murder Capital Refuse Trump's Help on Crime Murder capital 04/29/2025 Porky Pritzker calls on the left to unleash hell in the streets ''so that Republicans cannot have peace'' Murder capital 04/15/2025 Bukele says Trump has 350 million Americans to 'liberate' by ending crime, terrorism | ||
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