As Democrat elites “feast” on Chicago’s best food and drink, the attention to the party’s 2024 presidential ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is overshadowing the Windy City’s persistent problems of violence and policy failures, according to a former city police chief.
“There’s a lot of ironies associated with the DNC being held at the United Center,” Gene Roy, the Chicago Police Department’s former chief of detectives and a public safety consultant, told Fox News Digital.
Just a few weeks ago and a few blocks away, a 7-year-old named Jai’Mani Rivera died despite responding officers’ lifesaving efforts after a stray bullet struck him outside his mother’s home on Jackson Avenue. The 16-year-old suspect was moving about freely despite a violent history, Roy said.
“That is a sign of all that’s wrong in Chicago right now,” he added. “The Juvenile Probation Department, which reports directly to the chief judge of the Cook County Court system, was aware of the fact that the offender had broken the terms of his home confinement, but took no action…and again, this hoopla is going on. This grand party is going on. The reality of life is three blocks away.”
Roy has been highlighting what he sees as “window dressing” designed to hide Chicago’s problems while VIPs are in town for the convention. He told Fox News Digital the optics of the whole convention reminded him of medieval royalty removed from the masses, protected by a castle.
“I find the whole DNC convention here as an example of the elitism of the Democratic Party.” he said. “The politicians are inside a heavily fortified building, almost like a castle. They’re feasting on the best of food and liquor while protected by hundreds of armed police officers and two separate fences.”
