Chicago voters must choose between two candidates with very different views
It’s a long-standing rule of politics that being perceived as soft on crime can be a candidate’s undoing. At least that’s what we’ve been told was the lesson from the "Willie Horton" ad aired in the lead-up to the 1988 Bush–Dukakis presidential election. Analysts and politicos have already suggested that voters’ perception of Mayor Lori Lightfoot as soft on crime led to her ouster in the first round of Chicago’s mayoral race last month.
The true test of this theory, however, will come on Tuesday, when Chicago voters choose between two candidates with very different perspectives on crime.
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Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is also the author of Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most. Adapted from City Journal.
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