The mayor said aldermen who claim to support police should vote in favor of her budget.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot talks with Ald. Matt O'Shea, 19th, before a City Council meeting in May.
In response to a question about crime, Lightfoot said residents should ask their aldermen to back her budget and criticized aldermen who say they support police but don’t vote for her spending plan.“You can’t say ‘I’m pro-law enforcement, I’m pro-public safety’ and not support the budget and the revenue,” Lightfoot said.A day later, O’Shea appeared on the program to criticize Lightfoot for not doing enough to hire officers. He also said the city was facing a “public safety crisis” due to crime.
And the mayor noted that her administration created a recruitment team to help bring in more cops, which she said “is hitting college campuses, we are going to the military and they are going to every job fair, every community organization, and it’s paying dividends. We’re seeing one of the largest hiring and recruiting classes that we have seen in a number of years.”She added the city must “make sure that we’ve got the resources to be able to support them.
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