Six-Hundred-Eighteen Down....

And no plans to make up the shortages:

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been under pressure to defund the Chicago Police Department ever since the death of George Floyd triggered civil unrest and a racial reckoning that swept the nation.

Again, begging the question why a drug addict who had a heart attack is lionized by the "community" and has any bearing whatsoever on Chicago Police? 

• In her second budget address, Lightfoot threw several political bones to those activists, even as she declared police officers are “not the enemy” and ignored broader calls to dramatically reduce CPD’s $1.6 billion budget.

  The first and most tangible concession is the mayor’s decision to eliminate 618 police vacancies, nearly all of them sworn officers, at a time when the pace of retirements has escalated and disgruntled police officers are walking off the job, fearing the mayor doesn’t have their backs.

"...fearing"? No, it's pretty much a done deal. She proves time and again she doesn't.

• The second was her promise to test what she called a “co-responder model” that begins the painstaking process of “building the infrastructure for an alternative means of response” instead of requiring police to be the “first and only responders on every call for help.”

  Lightfoot warned such a system must be “tested on the streets” and “built over time.” There are “no magic wands to wave, no snapping of fingers or catchy slogans” to get it done. It must address Chicago’s “urban realities and not those of some other city that does not reflect our diversity.”

Have any of these "activists" actually sat down and figured this out...meaning the cost of this?

• Police work is a 24/7/365 profession. This so-called "co-responder model" is going to necessitate a 24/7/365 civilian "response" team. Mentals aren't losing their marbles during business hours, and they aren't exactly evenly distributed across the city. And that doesn't even take into consideration someone non-diagnosed undergoing a crisis. As Groot and Fatass continue to wreck the economy, guess what's going to rise exponentially?

And Groot really jumps the shark with this one:

• The third and more symbolic concession was Lightfoot’s decision to openly acknowledge what she called the “complicit role” police departments have historically played in “brutally enforcing racist, Jim Crow laws, depriving Black and Brown people” of their “full rights as citizens.”

  She added: “These are not just ancient times, but recent history, right here in Chicago. And so, in breaking down these barriers, we must also continue to closely scrutinize all policing practices and policies to eliminate any and all bias,” she said.

Does Groot even know what a Jim Crow law is? It's state and local laws enforcing racial segregation. And it was almost exclusively in the south - where Groot doesn't run any police departments.

The laws themselves were struck down in 1965. There isn't a single cop on the job who was working in 1965 and we'll bet over two-third of the Department wasn't even born in 1965. In short, since 1965, there have been legal remedies to any attempt to carry out Jim Crow laws. We'd ask Groot to cite any "recent local history" regarding the practices, but she (and we) know she's pandering (badly) to morons instead of being an adult.

UPDATE: We know were going to get a bunch of tiny brains screaming we're denying racist behavior by the police. This is why you are tiny brains. No one is denying that there were shameful instances in CPD history, That would be dumb. Go back and read what was typed - "recent local history." Then bring back an example.