{"id":22514,"date":"2022-01-03T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=22514"},"modified":"2022-01-03T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T17:27:11","slug":"crimeandsafetypostcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=22514","title":{"rendered":"Crime &#038; Safety Postcard\/Letter Writing Compaign &#8211; A Message from Alderman Reilly &#038; Interview with WGN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22515 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Crime-Safety-Postcard.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Crime and Safety: Postcard Writing Campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A message from Alderman Reilly Ward 42: Reilly Reports 12\/10\/2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alderman Reilly is extremely frustrated with the ongoing criminal activity plaguing our City, and the lack of accountability from the Cook County Criminal Justice System. He is in constant communication with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s Office about crime in the Downtown neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>All law enforcement agencies should work collaboratively to resolve the increase in crime. While CPD does great work, Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx\u2019s Office and Cook County Circuit Court Chief Judge Timothy Evans need to increase their efforts to hold criminals accountable.<\/p>\n<p>We are asking residents to participate in a postcard\/letter writing campaign to State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx\u2019s Office and Chief Judge Evans to express concerns about the lack of accountability and releasing individuals accused of violent crimes on electronic monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a042nd Ward Constituent Service Office located at 121 North LaSalle Street, Room 200 (Monday &#8211; Friday from 9am to 3pm) is currently out of postcards. \u00a0Drafting a letter is equally as effective. \u00a0 Please <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/5adeb40a001\/c2758f8a-0ba9-405f-8127-e75801171199.pdf\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/span><\/strong> for sample postcard\/letter language, mailing addresses, and more information about the campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Alderman Reilly on the Bob Sirott Show<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Wednesday, December 8, Alderman Reilly joined Bob Sirott on WGN Radio. They discussed crime Downtown, including\u00a0recent large group activities and the Chicago Police Department\u2019s response. Please\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/wgnradio.com\/bob-sirott\/ald-brendan-reilly-talks-about-teen-mobs-downtown-why-dont-we-have-cops-on-the-train-when-we-know-this-is-going-to-happen\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0to listen to the radio interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime and Safety: Postcard Writing Campaign A message from Alderman Reilly Ward 42: Reilly Reports 12\/10\/2021 Alderman Reilly is extremely frustrated with the ongoing criminal activity plaguing our City, and the lack of accountability from the Cook County Criminal Justice System. He is in constant communication with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and Mayor Lori [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}