In the Chicago mayoral runoff, public safety and policing have become key questions for candidates as nearly two-thirds of the city’s residents report feeling unsafe.
“demoralized and handcuffed,” but at the bar he offered a softer spin. Echoing the more progressive Johnson, he promised to invest in social services and said that police should not always be the ones to respond to 911 calls. “My legacy is not going to be hiring more cops,” he said.
Until this year, Vallas, who prefers statistics to emotions on the campaign trail, has been notably unsuccessful as a political candidate. He lost races for Illinois governor and lieutenant governor; then, four years ago, he ran for mayor of Chicago, only to finish ninth in a fourteen-person field. On Election Day that year,wrote that Vallas’s “time in politics may have come and gone.
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