We reported on how the Chicago Contrarian broke the story of “defund the police” cuts coming to Murder City USA’s police force. It’s worse than we imagined.
Not only is Mayor Mayhem Johnson not going to backfill the 1700 vacant police officer positions, he’s effectively adding to that number by not holding cadet classes for new recruits. Not only that, but he’s ordered the bean-counters at CPD to find $75M to cut.
Going out on a limb here, I’m going to say Let’s Go Brandon isn’t going to be willing to cut his protective detail of about 149 cops down to two or three.
Here’s more, courtesy Second City Cop:
Five days ago, the Contrarian had this:
- Here is some chilling news for Chicago.
Despite @ChicagosMayor’s claim a hiring freeze would not affect CPD, we’ve learned no training classes will be accepted to CPD academy until December.
CPD is also preparing for massive cuts — defund-level cuts — to the police budget.
Late yesterday, the Sun Times discovered:
- The Chicago Police Department won’t launch recruit classes for at least two months — fueling complaints that Mayor Brandon Johnson is reneging on his promise to exempt public safety agencies from a citywide hiring freeze.
And at an emergency Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Chief Operating Officer John Roberson ordered other department heads to identify personnel cuts — beyond reductions already made — and submit proposals by Friday. The goal: $75 million in additional savings in 2025.
And amid all the noise, a “shortage number” appears:
- Canceling police academy classes for at least two months also did not sit well with the police union’s Council allies. They noted CPD, with 11,660 sworn officers, already is 1,693 officers below its January 2019 level.
Between January 2022 and June 2024, the police department processed 28 academy classes, averaging 68 recruits each, over a 30-month period to make up for time lost during the pandemic.
At this rate, sometime next year, CPD may dip below 10,000 officers. But don’t worry! They’ll hire some social workers to fill some of those slots.
As long as Mayor Mayhem keeps up the race baiting “I’m the black man blah blah blah ” garbage, keeps false promising, and keeps coddling the criminal class all while spouting liberal mental illness he’ll win re election again and again.
that biolence prevention shi-ite must bez working good, keepin de crime-ala voters safe
Let’s start the budget cuts with his security details. 150 police officers assigned to him as well as swat every day. To put that into perspective, the mass transit unit for the chicago police, which is responsible for security of the 228 miles of train routes, has 109 police officers. And the crime on the trains is unreal. But hey, as long as the imbecile, BJ is safe. I can’t actually believe that he won the election, people can’t be this stupid right?
pull 75 mb’s out of your ctu-appeasing-ass, dindu