{"id":128,"date":"2026-07-14T14:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:57:57","slug":"80-percent-of-the-violent-crime-in-chicago-is-committed-by-gangs-but-you-wouldnt-know-it-from-listening-to-chicagosmayor-george-shay-explains-how-an-important-part-of-johnsons-politica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"\u200b80 percent of the violent crime in Chicago is committed by gangs, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from listening to @ChicagosMayor. George Shay explains how an important part of Johnson&#8217;s political strategy is to deflect attention away from gangs. https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/chicago-gangs-mr-mayor\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>80 percent of the violent crime in Chicago is committed by gangs, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/ChicagosMayor\" title=\"Mayor Brandon Johnson\">@ChicagosMayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>George Shay explains how an important part of Johnson&#8217;s political strategy is to deflect attention away from gangs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/chicago-gangs-mr-mayor\">chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/c\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Link<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/chicago-gangs-mr-mayor\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/card_img%2F2077118889524109312%2Fn3NgeOLg%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>It\u2019s the Chicago Gangs, Mr. Mayor | Chicago Contrarian<\/b><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, Mayor 6.6: When will you admit violent criminal gangs are the problem?<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/chicago-gangs-mr-mayor\">chicagocontrarian.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>80 percent of the violent crime in Chicago is committed by gangs, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from listening to @ChicagosMayor. George Shay explains how an important part of Johnson&#8217;s political strategy is to deflect attention away from gangs. chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/c\u2026 Link It\u2019s the Chicago Gangs, Mr. Mayor | Chicago Contrarian Hey, Mayor 6.6: When will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}