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Aaron Cunningham

@ACunninghamITTA

Chicago PD (ret). Semper Vigilans Fortis et Paratus.

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Aaron Cunningham
Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
🧵Part I: El Salvador, Violence, Shifting Government Strategy, Gangs, and Terrorism: El Salvador has (14) provinces on a landmass of 8000 square miles (roughly 1/7th the size of Illinois) with a population of ~6.5 million, where the population has trended downward since 1950.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
And yet when we care about crime and policing and preventing murder, progressives in Rogers Park will huff and point out that statistically she was more likely to drown in Lake Michigan than be shot. Rest in peace.
CWBChicago@CWBChicago

An 18-year-old Loyola student was murdered in an apparently random attack at the Loyola Beach pier this morning. A masked gunman emerged from behind the light beacon, shot her, then fled. cwbchicago.com/2026/03/gunman…

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Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
@PeterMoskos The incapacitation of El Salvador's major gangs worked and the public is now reaping the rewards of the peace dividend gained under Regimen de Excepcion.
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Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
The murder rate in El Salvador finally seems to have leveled and bottomed out. At ~1.3 per 100k. (Lower than New Zealand and Luxembourg!) The US rate is ~4. USA peaked at 10 in 1980 (and 9.8 in 1990). El Salvador peaked at 106(!) murder per 100k in 2015.
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Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos

State of El Salvador prisons (article from December 2023, link in following tweet). The murder rate dropped another 27% last year, to 0.31 (114 murders.) Compared to 2015 (when there were 6,656 murders), the rate is down 98.3%.

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Aaron Cunningham
Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
In 2018 in Chicago not far from the tragic officer involved shooting of armed assailant Harith Augustus another story took place. Officers acted quickly to save a life in a closeby but unrelated round of gang violence. They applied a tourniquet to control bleeding from a limb and prevent another unnecessary death. There were seven recent homicides within blocks of these two incidents. Yes - sometimes police officers must reluctently take a life to save one. Or with a tourniquet lucky enough to just save one. Officers must be prepared to use force, keep the peace, and provide aid in the same physical space and time. That's how we operate.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
If we were to take big guns and armored vehicles away from cops and de-emphasize tactical "warrior" training, how could we then also ask cops to respond to this situation? Sometimes we do pay cops to save lives by shooting people. It's a heavy ask. youtu.be/pbS6W0mC3mE?si…
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
@BasedMikeLee Why are some Republicans fighting against the Save America act so much?
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Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
So … I must dutifully stand down simply because you’ve decreed it, apparently with the blessing of a few Senate Republicans? No, sir Much as you might wish it were otherwise, your pronouncements aren’t final This isn’t over Not by a long shot
Andrew Desiderio@AndrewDesiderio

As we reported this morning, the Senate is far from “perfectly able” to do what’s required to pass the SAVE America Act via the “talking filibuster.” punchbowl.news/article/senate…

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Aaron Cunningham
Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
@Rafa_Mangual He's anxious and experiences regular panic attacks that require admission to NWU hospital. Also, his expansive security detail involving over 150 personnel (roughly 10x Daley and 2x Lightfoot) doesn't seem to provide any relief.
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Aaron Cunningham
Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
Exactly. This is why the arrest is needed foremost and not involuntary hospitalizations. A police arrest triggers psychiatric evaluation intake on jail intake and gets the person in front a judge who can mandate treatment. (Whereas, IH leads to quick release to the wild on stabilization within 24-72 hrs.)
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Meg Sosnow
Meg Sosnow@megsosnow·
@Rafa_Mangual @stephendeide @CityJournal so it doesn’t matter how long they are committed for unless they are committed indefinitely b/c when they are discharged, they stop their meds and become psychotic again. the only outpatient solution 4 these patients is court-ordered outpatient treatment & supportive housing
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Rafael A. Mangual
Rafael A. Mangual@Rafa_Mangual·
Such a fantastic conversation about an important topic—one of particular interest to New Yorkers who too often see the sad reality of untreated mental illness. I always learn when I talk w/ the great @stephendeide. Watch this ep. of the @CityJournal podcast, and you will too!
City Journal@CityJournal

“A lot of people who work as a ‘mental health professional’ have no contact with violent, schizophrenic people…All their knowledge is from a textbook,” @stephendeide tells @Rafa_Mangual.

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Aaron Chalfin
Aaron Chalfin@AaronChalfin·
Not a serious proposal but in the interest of idle curiosity ... There's also the possibility of splitting the difference. Pay $42k to educate people until age 12 (so no one is illiterate) and then place the remainder of the money in an investment account which would be worth $700k by age 30. Subsidizes one's income by $35k a year in perpetuity leaving the principal untouched.
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Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
@PeterMoskos Foxx treated her election as a mandate to shirk her duty, disparage victims' rights, and enable lawlessness.
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Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
The Federal agents who work in ICE/ERO receive their LE training at FLETC. FLETC provides a strong foundation for UoF, arrest tactics, firearms training, etc. DHS-ODP in Anniston does provide Field Force Operations (FFO) for agents, esp. when/where their operations involve potential protests or crowds. Many misconceptions about federal training are perpetuated in media reports lately.
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Aaron Chalfin
Aaron Chalfin@AaronChalfin·
@ProfDBernstein They're not trained to do crowd control or to confront throngs of angry US citizens. If we gutted this agency tomorrow and sent the $$ used to fund it to Border Patrol and local police, we'd likely be a lot safer. The real police arrest significantly higher risk people.
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David Bernstein@ProfDBernstein·
Wall Street Journal: "Either many ICE agents aren’t properly trained, or they are so on edge as they face opposition in the streets that they are on a hair trigger. Either way, this calls for rethinking how ICE conducts itself, especially in Minneapolis as tensions build."
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Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
The Guardian's magical realist approach - substituting fact with fiction - to journalism hit a pinnacle with Spencer Ackerman's characterization of CPD's Homan Square as a Black Site repleat with 'disappearances', a "secretive facility for detaining and interrogating thousands of people..."
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
"The trend comes as data shows the catastrophic results of police responding to mental health calls." Oh, Guardian, I know you hate police, but the data doesn't show that. Maybe there's a better way, but good on the sheriffs for calling the bluff. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…
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Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
@ProfLauraHuey Starbucks locations are concentrated in Chicago's 20 safest community areas and largely absent in the 20 most dangerous. Lowering homicide rates in distressed Englewood and West Garfield Park is simple: More coffee, less crime.
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Laura Huey
Laura Huey@ProfLauraHuey·
I’m thinking I’d like to run a series clarifying or debunking commonly held crime & crime prevention beliefs at evidence base based on evidence assessments. I love gardens, but what is the evidence that community gardens reduce crime?
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Aaron Cunningham
Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
It was an honor and a pleasure to work with the professionals and specialists at the 2026 Georgia Gang Investigators Winter Conference (GGIA) #GGIA #SaferCommunities
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Steve B 744@SteveBellow·
My mom passed away last night at age 92. I occasionally mentioned her wisdom and kindness on this platform. I always dreaded this day and already miss her greatly.
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TalksPucksTooMuch@Talknpucks·
@ian_t_adams @ACunninghamITTA @jnixy What a perfect encapsulation of what it's like for cops to try to have any discourse with criminologists. If you can't cite one of my colleagues studies, you must not know anything
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Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
@Talknpucks @ian_t_adams @jnixy Emphatic yes: The lion's share of pursuits I saw involved firearms, narcotics, warrants, and stolen vehicles. Fleeing over minor traffic offenses is not a thing in Chicago.
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TalksPucksTooMuch@Talknpucks·
@ian_t_adams @ACunninghamITTA @jnixy Further, I understand the way this data is collected, and it resulted in saying a pursuit was initiated for minor traffic violation. I estimate 99% of the time, when someone eludes, there's a bigger issue in the car than expired tabs.
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Aaron Cunningham
Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
@ProfLauraHuey The trend is more than likely consistent with the overall pattern of absurd and experimental public safety policy. This is a self-inflicted wound.
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Aaron Cunningham
Aaron Cunningham@ACunninghamITTA·
@ProfLauraHuey Incapacitation only works if there is some element or vestige of incapacitation in the formulae, something entirely absent in the restorative justice scene. This model works in west African farm disputes over livestock but is extended beyond its utility everywhere else.
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Laura Huey
Laura Huey@ProfLauraHuey·
Has anyone looked at the long term recidivism rates of individuals sentenced to healing circles or other forms of restorative justice?
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