• Flying Squid
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    104 months ago

    I have more hope of it happening in Chicago than some other cities. This is part of the Wikipedia entry on Mayor Johnson (last part notwithstanding)-

    In the summer of 2020, amid the George Floyd protests, Johnson authored the “Justice for Black Lives” resolution that was adopted in July 2020.[27][28] The resolution called for reallocating funding “from policing and incarceration” to “public services not administered by law enforcement that promote community health and safety equitably.”[27] In an interview that year, Johnson praised the political catchphrase “defund the police” as a “real political goal”. He would later walk back his embrace of the phrase “defund the police”, especially making an effort to disassociate himself from it during his 2023 mayoral campaign.[27][29]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Johnson