At various points, each candidate also accused the other of being in some way to blame for ruining schools.
reiterated their talking points in a forum Thursday evening, while taking shots at each other for issues ranging from their positions on public safety to their handling of municipal budgets.
Vallas called for a return to"community-based policing," rather than 911 calls that are answered in three hours instead of three minutes due to the lack of beat cars. He went on to accuse Johnson of"wanting to defund the police" as he claimed Johnson does not support his proposals for filling 1,100 vacancies in the CPD and bringing back retired officers and officers who have left the department.
Vallas said juvenile crime rose because of local schools being closed for 15 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021,"long after the science had demonstrated that schools could reopen safely." "People from New Orleans actually came here to Chicago today, Paul, to talk about your failures. The truth of the matter is you privatized two-thirds the district, which caused scores of Black women to be laid off because of your failures," Johnson said."Look, the entire economy shut down from a 100-year pandemic. We did that because we had to save lives. So I know it's a fair Republican talking point because it's a part of your party.
"If we reduce the standards of what it takes to become a police officer, we wouldn't have the best quality of officers on the front lines," he said.tax proposals. To Vallas, Johnson added,"You clearly don't know much about budgets, because everywhere you've gone, you've failed."
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