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Johnson created the position of deputy mayor for community safety just hours after his inauguration in May 2023. He saw the role as crucial to delivering on a key campaign promise to confront the “root causes” of violent crime.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Where is the uproar that he fired someone ???
He may have suggested hire more cops less peace keepers or take 140 members of your security force and put them on the streets or was heard saying How did a dumb f##k like you get elected mayor. All plausible
Perhaps Gatewood didn’t get the memo that he was hired to give the appearance of doing something, not actually to do something. He still has nine (?) vice mayors at a reported 95K each/ year. And the 150 member security detail of CHI police, because they don’t have anything more important to do, because crime is down.
Must be pretty bad situation for Johnson to actually fire someone. He defends his appointees no matter how bad or incompetent they are.