While the process carries on, the city’s most intractable public safety issue gun violence continues to dog city leaders and underscore the importance of the new mayor's choice.
Backing from the rank and file. Removing racist officers. Protecting marginalized communities. Those are just some of the priorities Chicagoans said they have for the next police superintendent during a virtual forum held Tuesday.
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Attention faded in recent months on the movement to remove uniformed police officers from Chicago Public Schools, particularly while high schools remained closed because of COVID-19.
But when high schoolers returned to classrooms this week for the first time in 13 months with those same cops in hallways, they also had to deal with fresh trauma from police violence.
The city’s latest death at the hands of Chicago police, that of 13-year-old Adam Toledo last month in Little Village, the youngest victim of a CPD shooting in many years, has students across CPS a system that’s 83% Black and Hispanic hurting.
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