The mayor said 'bringing people together is what the city of Chicago wants,' but there are many tough challenges beyond that.
, though it was far weaker than her campaign promises.
“Both of those pieces of legislation, there were no hearings,” Johnson told the Tribune last week about how those proposals fared under Lightfoot, who opposed them. “There were no conversations. In fact, for the last several years, many folks didn’t even say that was possible. … That is an incredible shift from where we were and where we are.”
For permanent superintendent, Johnson selected longtime Chicago cop Larry Snelling; and continued speaking on the importance of raising officer morale after four tough years. But the absence of several department heads has concerned some in City Hall who say they’re crucial to deliver a coherent vision.
“Look, I’ll just say this: I know what I inherited, right? And the city of Chicago is the best city in the world, right?” Johnson said. “And we do have our challenges, and we have a lot of work to do. But again, the fact that we are committed to smart policing, constitutional policing while also getting at the root causes of crime, that is a shift.”
Johnson’s team has also kept him more isolated from the media than Lightfoot was in the first 100 days and generally tried to limit his time with reporters. The mayor’s office offered the Tribune 20 minutes with Johnson, for instance, but changed it to 10 at the start of the interview. Lightfoot gave the Tribune a half-hour for her 100-day interview. Shorter interviews give politicians more ability to control the narrative and stick to canned answers and catchphrases.
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