It's Not A Problem Until It Affects The "Right" People
Obama Admin advisor David Axelrod has called for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to call a public safety emergency in Chicago (after a pol -- Sen. Durbin -- was driving on Lakeshore Drive and a dude in car next to him was shooting a gun into the air). How adorbs to just notice Chicago's a hotbed of violent crime in need of action.

(Headline via reply to my tweet about this by @craigbogen.)

Mike Flannery writes at Fox32Chicago:

Senator Durbin revealed a harrowing encounter with a gunman last weekend on Lake Shore Drive. He said he and his wife, Loretta, were returning from dinner downtown with another couple at about 10 p.m. on Saturday when suddenly loud shots rang out.

"It was stunning!" Durbin said. "I heard the popping sounds and I wasn't sure what happened!"

"It turned out to be the car next to us," Durbin added. "A driver was leaning out the window and shooting a gun in the air! He could've just as easily been shooting the gun at us. Sadly, that's what happens way too often ... my wife and I and the other couple, we were lucky. It was just a joy rider. But he was using the gun in a way that I'd not seen before and I hope to never see again! But there are lots of people we know who aren't that lucky."

Given the economic damage caused by the current tidal wave of carjackings and killings, Axelrod said Lightfoot should be prepared to spend whatever it takes to stem the violence.

Axelrod said the mayor should ask every major corporation in the city to join the anti-violence effort. He suggested each company adopt a public school and that a broad group of schools should stay open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., providing their students three daily meals and protection from street violence.

Whether it's finally starting a broad and effective witness protection program or hiring more police detectives, Axelrod said cost should not be a top concern. He said every logical proposal should be pursued.

"We need not just one idea. We need to do it all simultaneously," he said.

I believe that's cover for the heresy of proposing an idea (see "detectives" above) that's heresy to the Dem mantra of "Defund the police."