Political analyst Gianno Caldwell, whose 18-year-old brother was killed in a shooting in Chicago last month, said the July 4 parade mass shooting is the result of “soft-on-crime” policies. “The ‘defund the police’ mantra has become like a disease that’s spreading from the inner cities to suburbs everywhere,” Caldwell told the New York Post on July 4. …Caldwell said he believes locals in Highland Park “are going to demand changes immediately.” “This is where millionaires and billionaires in Illinois live. If they can’t feel safe at a parade, the next election is going to be brutal. They’ve got to reverse these soft-on-crime policies,” Caldwell said, before adding that these policies have “enabled” individuals to carry out mass shootings.
