The candidates largely repeated familiar talking points.
largely repeated familiar talking points at their latest debate Tuesday night, while also lobbing familiar brickbats at each other.
Johnson went on to reiterate his plan to hire 200 more police detectives so as to improve the clearance rate for crimes, focus on implementing the federal consent decree that mandates reform in the Chicago Police Department, and focus on long-term solutions to deal with the root causes of crime by focusing on issues such as youth employment.
"The bottom line is there's been a reduction of 76 percent in arrests since 2019, despite the fact that crime has escalated," Vallas said. "We are bleeding officers to the tune of 80 to 90 a month because they're simply exiting," Vallas said. Bradley said Johnson had seemed"hesitant to condemn the looting" in the interview, and asked how he would convince businesses to stay in Chicago"if the mayor sides with rioters and looters.""What I'm saying is that we actually have to understand the pain of people," Johnson said."No one is going to be okay with a society that's under control. I'm not hesitant to say that.
He chalked up the $72 million shortfall to three times the number of staffers taking early retirements as expected, along with delayed returns. He also said he left his successor with a balanced budget. He added that he did not recall he specific book in the controversy in 1996, but he said,"We actually had committees of teachers, as well as principals, who would make recommendations – so at the end of the day, we had curriculum review committees, and they would make the decisions on what books to offer and what books not to offer."
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