Haha....This is Priceless

When things appear to be going well, there's money to burn on all sorts of pet projects:

• tens of thousands of illegal aliens
• reparation "task forces"
• refurbishing the mayor's wife's office
• massive redundant oversight of police

But when things get ugly:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to cut 456 police vacancies would decimate spending and staff within the office leading the Chicago Police Department’s court-ordered reform push, raising renewed questions about his commitment to getting out from under a slow-moving federal consent decree.

  Johnson’s $17.3 billion 2025 budget increased CPD’s annual budget slightly, to $2.1 billion, but only to cover the 5% raises Johnson gave rank-and-file officers when he extended and sweetened the deal negotiated by his predecessor, Lori Lightfoot.

  The vacant CPD positions proposed for elimination are more than half of the 743 vacant positions Johnson wants to cut citywide to chip away at a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall next year. It’s the second straight year Johnson has eliminated hundreds of police vacancies. The mayor’s budget also includes a $300 million property tax increase facing stiff headwinds in an emboldened City Council.

  The Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform would take a major hit, with its budget shrinking by 45% — to about $3.7 million, down from about $6.7 million this year. The staff would be cut from 65 budgeted employees to 28 next year.

So it would seem:

• someone in a position to make decisions noticed the staffing at "Constitutional Policing" couldn't be justified as crime spiraled out of control, Conehead's bodyguard detail kept expanding and beat cars were going unmanned;
  
• they also noticed that "reform" is just another name for "funneling money to friends and family of connected people via crooked contracts" starting a few supernintendos ago;

The usual grifters (Robert Boik for starters) are whining that politicians aren't being serious about "reform" as they see the gravy train coming to an end:

• Robert Boik was fired as the office’s executive director in August 2022 after he criticized then-Police Supt. David Brown’s decision to reassign 46 officers under his supervision. Johnson’s cuts would be equally devastating and could slow to a crawl what has already been a painfully slow march toward police reform.

  “Reform doesn’t happen without investment,” Boik, now senior vice president of public safety for the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, warned Thursday. CPD’s overhaul, he added, hinges on technological advancements and hiring project managers and data specialists who can lead the department through the consent decree and track its compliance.

A typical tool who's made a living off of a "reform" train that never seemed destined to end. And a "reform" train that was never actually a Consent Decree....the federal government didn't authorized a dime for it and the Illinois/Chicago pols had to hunt up a retired federal judge to pretend to sign off on it. He got paid, too.

And then the money started to run out.