Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago police officials on Thursday announced a public safety and engagement plan for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.
The new mayor took a different approached to announcing his safety plan, devoting the first several minutes of his press conference not to police strategy but to announcing a doubling of investments by the business and philanthropic communities to help fund summer youth programs.
Johnson said a $2.5 million investment from the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities' eighth annual Chicago Fund is part of the plan. One regular day off will be canceled for all officers, and head of the weekend authorities have been targeting open air drug markets and conducting warrant missions."They communicate with us in some ways, but we don't ask that they tell us everything that they do," said Interim CPD Supt. Fred Waller. "But we see the areas where the violence doesn't happen, those are the areas they're in.
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