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Lightfoot emphatically denied that a crackdown on overtime pay resulted in 1,000 fewer police officers on the street, and blamed disgruntled cops for spreading that rumor. Still, she said she had told Brown that “this was a fail. Whatever the strategy was, it didn’t work. ... This weekend’s violence was out of control.”
Audio and summary linked here.
A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
Summary and audio linked here.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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So she blames the CPD superintendent whom she just hired a few months ago and contradicts him in the same presser demonstrating how out of touch she is with her own statistics. THIS IS WHAT FAILED LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE, DEMS. Also it should not come as a shock lawless gang members on the southside aren’t abiding to shelter in place orders.
Anyone else notice the relationship between freeing people from jail and prison and the increase in crime?
Crazy how that works.
“There is no circumstance like the one we are facing right now when it comes to public safety.”
…and this whole thing is the fault of Queenie, J. Beluga and the Democratic Party.
Let’s face it – Groot hasn’t a clue what she is doing. Enjoy the misery Chicago – you voted for it.
“Buckwheat casts blame, again.”
The only headline needed when writing about Chicago politics.