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'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
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I want to believe this but there is absolutely no evidence, provided by this article, to back this up.
Why wouldn't you link the filing you are supposedly quoting?
*Edit:
On my phone. There is a link to a a Chicago Tribune article in the section past where they initially referenced the data.
I had clicked a couple of links where OP's article referenced the DoJ data and they were just references to other articles in its own publication.
I guess I gave up too early.
On that note though, how about OP just post the original article instead of this derivative trash article?
It has been so easy for people to generate bullshit news articles for manufactured news aggregates that reference circulary, for the purpose of obscuring the truth,.or creating wedge issues.
So now, if I don't recognize the publisher, and it is setup like this one, I immediately smell bullshit.
It's in like the first fucking paragraph: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/only-2-5-on-list-of-614-operation-midway-blitz-arrestees-had-criminal-histories-doj-records-show/
Do you think the Chicago Tribune made this up whole cloth? You don't think they'd use a slightly less absurd figure if they had?
One of the only useful corporate/military lessons I learned on a job a few years ago was to run this mantra through my head in moments of doubt:
Does this need to be said right now by me? Does this need to be said right now? Does this need to be said?