The Hill
•76% Informative
Democrats are riveted on the April 4 runoff election that will pick Chicago’s next mayor.
It's a duel between two Democrats with strikingly different outlooks on law and order.
The outcome will go far in determining whether their party will rebuild its credibility on public safety.
A Brown University study found that in some neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Chicago, young men overwhelmingly Black and brown are more likely to meet a violent death than were U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Some Democrats try to navigate the split on crime by avoiding the issue.
Most voters favor a crackdown on both crime and abusive policing, but vanishingly few support a stance that’s seen as anti-police.
VR Score
81
Informative language
81
Neutral language
19
Article tone
formal
Language
English
Language complexity
53
Offensive language
possibly offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
Attention-grabbing headline
not detected
Known propaganda techniques
not detected
Time-value
short-lived
External references
12
Source diversity
10
Affiliate links
no affiliate links