Bigger Academy?

Someone pretty powerful must have a lot of money riding on this for Groot to reverse course like she just did:

• The $95 million police and fire training academy in West Garfield Park that critics called a symbol of Rahm Emanuel’s misplaced spending priorities is a done deal, but needs to be made bigger, better and, undoubtedly, more expensive, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday.
  
  After touring the current academy and seeing recruits apprehending mock suspects in a dark hallway, Lightfoot came away more convinced than ever that a new academy is essential to improve police training that the U.S. Justice Department found so sorely lacking.
  
  But Lightfoot said she is not at all certain the two-building campus to be built at 4301 W. Chicago Ave. on 30.4 acres — land that has stood stubbornly vacant for decades — is adequate to house a training facility that will be “best-in-class” — not just when it opens, but for decades afterward.
  
  “I don’t know that it’s big enough. I don’t know that the plans, particularly on the fire [department] side, are gonna provide them with the different kind of training scenarios that they need,” the mayor told reporters outside the current facility, 1300 W. Jackson Blvd.

Since reporters seem oblivious, we will (again) direct them to the NYPD Academy. It cost over $900 million a few years ago. Even if we point out that CPD is about one-third the size of NYPD, that would indicate at least a $300 million expenditure for the Police side alone. CFD is a separate line item and we won't pretend to know what they require.

The usual ignoramuses (blm, Chance the rapper, J-(look at me!)-Mal continue to insist it's a waste of money because it isn't in their pockets and they'd much rather make a living suing an under-trained police force than actually end up with a more professional force that benefits everyone...except the race pimps.