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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HFS" data-source="post: 3704708" data-attributes="member: 8862">According to the Chicago Sun Times, the mayor and her police chief told cops in a private meeting to make more arrests or they would get demoted.So don't be running through the middle of an intersection when you're fleeing from random gunfire in the Windy City. You might get thrown in jail on a jaywalking charge.  That would count as an arrest following a terrible act of 'gun violence' right?"...After Chicago’s deadliest year in a quarter-century, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her handpicked top cop signaled to police leaders in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that they’ll lose their jobs if they can’t bolster arrest numbers and get officers to engage more with city residents, sources said.However, Lightfoot and Chicago Police Supt. David Brown didn’t present clear plans to address the city’s surging violent crime or the department-wide staffing woes while giving the directive, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the high-level meeting at Public Safety Headquarters.One of the sources said the message was “make do with what you have to get more arrests,” generate more positive interactions between cops and community members and “clear more murders or you will be demoted.” The source called the tone “threatening.” The other source said the threat of a demotion wasn’t overt but strongly insinuated...."[URL unfurl="true"]https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2022/1/5/22869450/police-cpd-lori-lightfoot-david-brown-arrest-increase-crime-quota-demotion-clearance-rate-murder[/URL]</blockquote>

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