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VIDEO – Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Links Carjacking Surge to Remote Learning: ‘Pure Boredom’

by AMY FURR


Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Monday tied the city’s wave of carjackings to school shutdowns in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

During a news conference, Lightfoot said young people were mostly to blame for the rising crime that she argued stirred “pervasive fear” in Chicagoans, NBC Chicago reported.

“We started seeing this rise in cases in 2020, and I’ll be frank and say in Chicago, there was a correlation that we believe between remote learning and the rise in carjacking,” she said. She explained her viewpoint…


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