We\u2019ve hit a new and dangerous low in political hackery. The rhetoric coming from local operatives in Illinois isn\u2019t just partisan\u2014it\u2019s toxic, reckless, and increasingly incendiary. For years, the Left has toyed with inflammatory language to score cheap political points, but now that rhetoric has crossed the line into something far more dangerous.<\/p>\n
According to multiple reports, including from Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, a Chicago Police Department \u201cChief of Patrol\u201d instructed officers on October 4th not to respond when ICE and Border Patrol agents called for backup while under attack following a shooting.<\/p>\n
Orders like that don\u2019t come from beat cops \u2014 they come from the top. That kind of directive almost certainly originated with Chicago\u2019s political leadership \u2014 either from the mayor\u2019s office or possibly even the governor.<\/p>\n
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And here is the audio of a dispatch operator ordering cops not to respond:<\/p>\n
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The Chief of Patrol who ordered the standdown is Jon Hein, on Saturday:<\/p>\n
One of the highest-ranking officers in the Chicago Police Department barred city cops from responding to calls for help from federal agents who reported being surrounded by a large crowd in Brighton Park on Saturday, according to CPD radio transmissions.<\/p>\n
CPD Chief of Patrol Jon Hein ordered city officers to leave the area as tensions escalated following the shooting of a woman by Border Patrol agents, supervisors said in recorded radio traffic.<\/p>\n
At the end of the dispatch recording, the order is unmistakable. It\u2019s crystal clear \u2014 Chicago police were told not to help federal officers under attack. Actively refusing to protect ICE and Border Patrol agents from local violence isn\u2019t just reckless; it\u2019s an open invitation for more chaos. Sooner or later, someone is going to get seriously hurt \u2014 or worse \u2014 if CPD officers are barred from responding to desperate calls for help. Once the mob realizes that police won\u2019t intervene, the situation will only spiral further out of control.<\/p>\n
Politics has once again trumped common sense \u2014 pun very much intended. And it\u2019s not the first time we\u2019ve seen this. There\u2019s a long, troubling pattern in blue cities of political leaders tying the hands of their own law enforcement to appease the radical fringe.<\/p>\n
Just look back to 2020 \u2014 the so-called \u201csummer of love\u201d in Seattle. Antifa and other masked anarchists seized control of several city blocks and declared an \u201cautonomous zone.\u201d Instead of restoring order, Seattle\u2019s leadership instructed police to stand down, only allowing them to enter under \u201climited circumstances.\u201d In effect, the city surrendered a portion of itself to violent extremists who fancied themselves revolutionaries.<\/p>\n
In Seattle\u2019s so-called \u201cautonomous zone,\u201d a shooting broke out \u2014 and police and first responders were only allowed in if they first asked for permission. That\u2019s what happens when political hacks tell law enforcement to stand down: chaos takes over. The East Precinct was under siege, and if officers hadn\u2019t boarded it up and fought to keep fires from spreading, it likely would have met the same fate as Minneapolis\u2019s 3rd Precinct.<\/p>\n
In Minneapolis, during the early days of the George Floyd riots, officers were given direct orders not to defend their own station. Political leaders told them to let the felonies happen \u2014 to simply stand by and watch as rioters tore the city apart. Many of those officers barely made it out alive when the 3rd Precinct was overrun and set ablaze.<\/p>\n
When local and state police are told not to prevent crime, criminals will do what criminals do \u2014 commit crimes. But when those same officers are ordered not to help their fellow law enforcement officers, that\u2019s something far darker. It\u2019s dystopian \u2014 the kind of thing you\u2019d expect to see in a B-movie about corruption, where dirty cops stand by while an honest officer in distress is left to fend for himself.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not fiction anymore. Federal officers \u2014 ICE and Border Patrol agents simply doing their jobs \u2014 are under siege. They\u2019re insulted, spit on, pelted with beer cans, and their vehicles are smashed with rocks. And what allows that to happen? Political cowardice.<\/p>\n
Battery on federal officers doesn\u2019t happen in a vacuum. It happens because local political leaders allow it \u2014 because they tell their police to stand down, to look the other way, to let the mob take control. When that happens, criminals get free rein, and law and order become optional.<\/p>\n
In most cities, when protesters cross the line from chanting to violence, local police step in to restore order. But not in Chicago. There, it appears the rules have changed \u2014 and not for the better. Chicago police officers have reportedly been told to stand down, to ignore calls for help from ICE and Border Patrol agents who are under direct attack.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t just negligence \u2014 it\u2019s abandonment. Federal officers are being left to fend for themselves against violent mobs. The message from city leadership couldn\u2019t be clearer: politics comes first, law enforcement comes last.<\/p>\n
And the men and women enforcing America\u2019s immigration laws are paying the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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