Raymond Lopez, Democratic Chicago alderman, told Fox News that residents in the city are being “hunted down like prey.” The comments come after a state law went into effect last month that ended cash bail, putting criminals on the streets soon after being arrested.

Lopez said that “things like robbery, burglary, arson, assault, even threatening elected officials like myself, do not warrant you being held on bond anymore in the state of Illinois, and criminals are taking note.”

Voters are seeing that when they elect “socialists or ultra progressives,” Lopez said, they’re rewarded with “tone-deaf leadership.”

[Freddie deBoer’s essay comes to mind here, and not in a good way. Lopez is attributing the damage to language, when it’s progressivism itself that creates the nihilistic push in all directions. — Ed]