Posted on 02/19/2021 10:13:39 AM PST by simpson96
Activists don’t want so much of Chicago’s $1.2 billion in relief going to cops, even to reimburse them.
The revelation that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spent $281.5 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds on personnel costs for the Chicago Police Department is prompting outrage from local activists and citizens alike.
“We asked for assurances they wouldn’t spend it all on police,” Alderman Daniel La Spata said Wednesday. “That’s the last thing people wanted, to infuse hundreds of millions more dollars into the police department right now.”
The figure came to light after Lightfoot asked for City Council approval to transfer $65 million in unspent federal funds into the 2021 budget.
Activists have planned a news conference for Thursday to speak out against such a large portion of the $1.2 billion in coronavirus relief funds from the federal government going to Chicago’s police department.
uthor-poet-professor Eve L. Ewing broke down the allocation in simpler terms on Instagram.
“Let’s do some math, wrote Ewing. “Let’s say the federal government gave Chicago $100 for COVID relief. This is the equivalent of the police getting $69.48, public health getting $4.47, the office of emergency management (which oversees 911 and 311 among other things) getting $1.98, family and support services (which includes youth services, senior services, support for unhoused people, support for vets, workforce support and more) getting 50 count em 50 cents.”
“A budget is a moral document,” she concluded. “And this right here? Is not right.”
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Note that not one person spending the money or whining about how it is spent earned one penny of it. We are a society of moochers.
This nation is doomed!!!! The 3rd largest city in the USA is run by an idiot. We already know the 1st and 2nd largest cities are run by idiots also.
LOL, I see this as liberal outrage over liberal spending of funds that were not theirs in the first place. I.e. misplaced outrage.
Speechless.
A quarter of a billion isn’t as much as it sounds once you factor in administrative costs such as graft, kickbacks, and bribery...
Any politician with a D after their name is an idiot.
“Police payroll”, so that’s what they call skimming off the top these days.
Sounds like CA....The pay, benefits and pensions they’re paying city, county, fire, cops etc, is flat out obscene and I’m surprised it hasn’t yet bankrupted the entire state.
Money laundering.
Woke Libtard mayor gets free money. Spends it on cops.
Cannot make it up.
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