Police Layoffs?

Not likely among the rank and file, but among PPOs without Contract protections? It's been done before waaaaay back under Harold Washington:

• Some Chicago city employees, including police officers, could face layoffs this fall as Mayor Brandon Johnson and members of the City Council's budget accountability coalition clash over responsibility for a projected $98 million midyear budget shortfall.

  Johnson's administration outlined the deficit in its latest budget update, prompting a new round of fingerpointing over stalled revenue plans and the potential impact on jobs and a planned $260 million advance pension payment.

Conehead was bitching about the City Council refusing to enact his Head Tax, something that has been proven time-and-time again to drive businesses OUT of Chicago, some merely establishing their addresses across the street in a border suburb.

Oh, and what the Hell is a "pension advance payment"? 

• The $16.7 billion budget approved by a City Council majority that rejected Mayor Brandon Johnson’s corporate head tax required the city to make a full $260 million advance pension payment to stave off another costly reduction in Chicago’s bond rating.

  The Johnson administration ignored that mandate, made a half payment of $130 million in January, and promised to pay the other half in the second quarter of this year. Now that second installment is in jeopardy.

So Conehead and his people (folks?) lied again.

But he had $500 million for ILLEGAL ALIENS.

$400 million in TIF money for a soccer stadium.

$100 million "redirected" to some anti-violence grifters.

And extra $800 million in fantasy money that might have bought back the parking meters.

Now they might miss a "pension advance payment"?