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Authoritarian Tyrants aka Democrats ProgLeft and Pols in general...
their failed policies becoming so universally despised they have to hire....

Mayor Lightfoot Assigned 70 Chicago Cops To Personal Security Detail
Created In 2020

https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/3/28/22985559/mayor-lightfoot-security-dozens-chicago-cops-guard-mayor-family-below-radar-security-unit


"My dick is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest
dick in Chicago. -- Lori Lightfoot"

"Black, Lesbian, Cunt... Never a good combo for Inner City success. -- Internet"

"86% disapproval rating -- The Chicago Index poll, Lori Lightfoot"


The Democratic rulers of ultra-liberal cities love to pay lip service
to their voters' calls to 'defund the police' - except, of course,
when it comes to their own protection.

In the latest example of this disturbing trend, Chicago Mayor Lori
Lightfoot has, for the past two years, enjoyed a security detail
consisting of some 71 Chicago PD officers, despite proposing to cut
the department's budget by $80 million back in 2020 as a sop to the
"defund" movement (while the city's murder rate continues to spiral
out of control).

The detail, known as Unit 544, started with a handful of officers, but
has since grown into a group that includes 65 officers, five
sergeants, and a lieutenant, according to a Chicago Sun Times report.

As if this weren't already excessive enough, Lightfoot has an
additional personal bodyguard detail made up of approximately 20
officers. The department sent a memo to its officers in the summer of
2020 (at the height of the defund movement) inviting them to apply to
join the mayor's detail.

    "The unit's mission will be to provide physical security for City
Hall, the mayor's residence and the mayor's detail command post," the
memo read. "Through the coordination of intelligence and resources,
officers will respond to all threats related to the mayor's physical
properties to ensure its protection."

Around the time the unit was established, city residents who lived
near the mayor's house were complaining that the precinct's limited
resources were too often being dedicated to the mayor's residence,
where protesters repeatedly gathered.

Lightfoot told the Sun-Times that the unit was created to ensure
proper coordination between officers who provided security at her
residence, and those who provided security at city hall.

    "...[Y]ou know, if there was some kind of emergency at City Hall,
for example, the right hand wouldn’t necessarily know what the left
hand was doing because they all reported to different chains of
command."

    [...]

    "...[I]n 2020 in particular, there were a significant amount of
protests all over the city, and some of them targeted at my house. All
the more reason why having a unified command to understand and share
intelligence and be ready to respond if there was any kind of threat
was very important."

Lightfoot also tried to play down the proposed PD budget cut as the
result of a 'pandemic-related budget shortfall', not an example of her
bowing to the "defund" movement.

She also blamed President Trump for threatening her security: "When
the president of the United States uses the world’s largest megaphone
and platform to target you personally, terrible things happen...And he
not only blew a dog whistle, he pointed really evil and dangerous
people right at my doorstep."

Of course, the political winds have shifted dramatically since 2020 -
so much so that President Biden recently included additional funding
for federal and local law enforcement in his 2023 budget proposal,
which he unveiled yesterday.