More than three years after the murder of George Floyd sparked a movement to defund police departments, Chicago is on track to spend a record $2 billion on the city’s police department in 2024.
Mayor Brandon Johnson, who was sworn in earlier this year, was one of the many to advocate for defunding the police in 2020 after Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, saying “I don’t look at it as a slogan” and adding, “It’s an actual political goal,” during a podcast.
In Johnson’s first budget after he was elected in April 2023, the city proposed maintaining staffing at 14,137 full-time positions while increasing funding to the police department by 5% to $1.99 billion.
In 2020 when Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis set off a nationwide movement to take resources away from police, the Chicago Police Department had 14,709 full-time positions budgeted and spent $1.76 billion.The city reduced the police […]
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