— including 200 new agents and 200 that were"repurposed" — and gave more than $9 million in grants to police, who hired 75 more positions, Barr said.
But Mayor Lori Lightfoot said last week that it was too early to be taking a"victory lap." She said it was"just factually inaccurate" to attribute the reduction in murders to the federal assistance. While the city began to see a downward trend in shootings and homicides beginning in late July, the first additional federal agents that came to Chicago as part of Operation Legend didn’t arrive until Aug. 3, she said.
"If Chicago's going to be a safer city, reducing violent crimes to historical lows, it will be because of community policing," Brown said."The best way to reduce crime is to prevent it from happening in the first place, and you do that through community policing — getting officers out of their cars and into the barber shops and salons and churches and into the living room of our neighborhood where they are assigned.
Because we are still getting killed in the streets by police who are never held accountable. 2 different issues and because you are so disconnected you don't know what the discussions are in our communities!
And not a single word from BLM or chicagosmayor
OK I think you left out the color of the race that shot them. So there you go again w/half-assed reporting trying to make the race war worse. MediaFuelsRaceWar do real research/reporting
Gangsta Lives Matter....to funeral director retirement plans.
BLM What’s with the killing.?
Gun control? Ban handguns!
Where are the BLM protestors on this?
It’s sad, but true
This is what refunding the Police was brought, stop the craziness
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Lori Lightfoot has allowed this because she's for 'The New World Order'. her words lori lightfoot wants us to pledge allegiance to the NEW WORLD ORDER
Lol... Wow, what a shocker, captain obvious. 🙄
Still want to AbolishThePolice because BlackLivesMatter ?
DemoKKKrat cities are a danger to people more than COVID is, especially to POC. How’s that DefundThePolice working out for you? DemocratsTheEnemyWithin
Gee I wonder why? Maybe lawless inept leadership of the Mayor of Chicago and Governor of Illinois?
should know that nobody cares. You are only supposed to report on white cops shooting black men. That is the only acceptable reporting.
And?
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