<p>Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez (D-15th Ward) lashed out at Mayor Brandon Johnson (D-Chicago) and Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) during a recent appearance on NewsNation, saying that their insistence on engaging in a political battle with President Donald Trump over crime was sending a message to the people that the victims did not matter.</p>
<p>Lopez pressed Johnson and Pritzker to instead work with President Trump and get any help he might offer in order to make the streets of Chicago safer for the people who live there.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨NEW: Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez *TORCHES* Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov J.B. Pritzker for not collaborating with TRUMP to crack down on crime🚨</p>
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<p>&#8220;We should be working to make sure that we are in coordination with each other,&#8221; Lopez said. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing stopping the mayor of the city of Chicago, the governor of the state of Illinois, from picking up the phone and reaching out to the President of the United States and saying, &#8216;What can we do to be on the same page?'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We should all be looking to continuously decrease the number of victims in our city and in our state, and instead we&#8217;re getting into this tit-for-tat social media back and forth nonsense, which is only putting the people of Chicago and the people of Illinois in the middle, in the crosshairs of criminals who are going to use this time to exploit and go crazy as we&#8217;re continuing to see this weekend where we&#8217;ve had multiple mass shootings,&#8221; he continued.</p>
<p>The outlet then showed a graphic recounting the crime stats from Labor Day weekend in Chicago, where there were 31 shootings, seven shooting deaths, 52 people shot, and only three persons of interest identified or arrested.</p>
<p>&#8220;I hear the governor talking about an &#8216;invasion,&#8217; an &#8216;insurrection,&#8217; I hear the mayor writing useless orders against the federal government,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But what no one is talking about is, if our crime stats are decreasing, why can&#8217;t we push with Donald Trump&#8217;s help and decrease them even more? How many victims are we comfortable with? Because that&#8217;s ultimately the subtext of what the mayor and the governor are saying is that we are comfortable with the amount of victims we have right now. We don&#8217;t need to improve on our numbers any further than that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pritzker, just as Lopez suggested, had touted the progress made in Illinois as recently as Sunday morning during an appearance on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation.&#8221;</p>

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