And Chicago wonders why crime is increasing ...
Crime is not increasing, if you don't have convictions. Lowered prosecutions means less crime. By definition.
The DA is not prosecuting a variety of arrest reports and complaints. This is no different than, say, a 1920's prohibition era DA refusing to prosecute moonshiners, mobsters, and speakeasy owners. Or in more modern context, a DA refusing to prosecute a person operating a suppressor and machine gun manufacturing outfit without corresponding ATF FFL paperwork.
Gotta remember where we are and the legal system we profess to want. Crimes have not been committed unless a trial has found it to be so. Prior to that, they are police complaints and arrest reports.
All that being said, they are neglecting to prosecute some pretty important stuff. Assault, murder, theft, rape... these are kind of the biggies that need to be heavily discouraged to have a civilized society. Ideally a civilized society rapes all it wants (to crib from Penn Jillette). The uncivilized fringe of society get scared from raping all it wants.
Between the neurotic covid response and the blase response to anarchy I feel like I'm a stranger living in a strange land.
Chicago/Seattle/Portland is not anarchy. These people are socialist guerrillas. Rather effete ones, with strange hair and poor arms training... but it's what they aspire to be. Anarchism aims for the elimination of all involuntary forms of human interaction. These people ooze compulsion with every breath they take, even if it's sometimes comical and whiny.