Dec 4, 2025
Pulitzer prize-winner Frank Main has been covering criminal
justice in Chicago since 1998. Readers of the Sun-Times are
drawn to his work for heeding the journalism mantra "inflict the
comfortable, and comfort the afflicted."
In this episode of The Crisis Cast, we travel back to a discussion
with Lissa & Thom about COVID's lasting impact on crime in upper
Midwest cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit. They also
examine two behaviors that began surging in the early 2020s at
alarming rates: car-jacking and police retirements. This
conversation was originally released in February 2021.