When Johnson repeated his frequent claim that 40% of calls to 911 relate to mental health issues, a moderator told him the city says it's just three percent. Johnson said he didn't believe that figure.
Public safety will be the topic of a mayoral forum set to begin Tuesday afternoon on the Near West Side campus of the University of Illinois Chicago.It was one of the liveliest meetings yet between Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas, who will face each other in the April 4 runoff election.
"Chicago has twice as many police per capita as the nation as a whole. We have more police than New York and way more than LA based upon population. Please keep this in mind as you hear from our candidates today," said Duncan. Johnson, who once sponsored a county board ordinance calling for police to "divest" funding, took aim at a widely circulated video clip. It shows him calling "defunding" police a real political goal, but he now says he was speaking about others, not himself.
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