{"id":537226,"date":"2021-05-22T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537226"},"modified":"2021-05-22T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T16:21:00","slug":"slap-in-the-face-chicago-cops-vote-no-confidence-in-mayor-lori-lightfoot-police-chief-david-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/slap-in-the-face-chicago-cops-vote-no-confidence-in-mayor-lori-lightfoot-police-chief-david-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Slap In The Face\u2019: Chicago Cops Vote \u2018No-Confidence\u2019 In Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Police Chief David Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fslap-in-the-face-chicago-cops-vote-no-confidence-in-mayor-lori-lightfoot-police-chief-david-brown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537226&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lori-Lightfoot.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s rank-and-file police officers issued a vote of \u201cno-confidence\u201d against Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her chosen head of the city\u2019s police force, David Brown.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the city\u2019s largest police union, voted Wednesday against Lightfoot, Brown, and Brown\u2019s first deputy, Eric Carter. The FOP said the vote was unanimous among the 150-200 officers who showed up to the meeting, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-fop-no-confidence-vote-20210520-nx3npn343nejrhsucbmfgnjcxa-story.html\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The vote comes as the FOP continues to hold out against Lightfoot\u2019s administration amid disagreements over the union\u2019s next collective bargaining agreement. The FOP has gone without a collective bargaining agreement for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The FOP says that the \u201cno-confidence\u201d vote, which is symbolic with no official ramification, is a rebuke of recent orders by the administration curtailing officers\u2019 days off and increasing their shifts from 8 \u00bd hours to 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot also canceled the Chicago Police Department\u2019s annual St. Jude Memorial March for fallen officers over COVID-19, according to the Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a slap in the face to every member, especially the Gold Star Families who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, and deserve that respect annually, period, no excuses,\u201d FOP President John Catanzara said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2021\/05\/20\/mayor-lori-lightfoot-chicago-fop-no-confidence-vote-police-superintendent-david-brown-first-deputy-eric-carter\/\">CBS Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The increased pressure on Chicago\u2019s cops comes as the city is experiencing a spike in crime. \u201cThrough May 2, homicides in the city were up 22% over the same period last year, going from 160 to 195, official CPD statistics show. The 195 slayings were also a 35% jump over the last two years. Total shootings through May 2 were also up over the last two years by 58%, the statistics show,\u201d the Tribune reports.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot dismissed the union vote against her on Thursday, taking a shot at Catanzara. \u201cFrankly, getting a vote of no confidence from that guy is a badge of honor accepted,\u201d she said, according to the local CBS affiliate..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current administration of the FOP has decided that the best strategy is to do nothing. Why? Because they don\u2019t want to face the realities that we are in,\u201d Lightfoot continued, referring to the ongoing collective bargaining fight between her and the police union. \u201cWe\u2019ve got monumental reforms and accountability in the supervisors\u2019 contracts. The state law has changes to make sure that there\u2019s more reform and accountability, but what does the FOP president say? He says that his strategy is to do nothing, to drag it out, so that he doesn\u2019t have to face the reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside of Lightfoot\u2019s house to express disapproval with her job as mayor. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hundreds-gather-at-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoots-house-to-slam-her-job-performance\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24.667774086379\">\n<p><em>More than 300 demonstrators swarmed the area around Lightfoot\u2019s residence, many of them hoisting signs giving her an \u201cF\u201d grade on issues such as education, COVID-19, police reform, housing, and other things,&nbsp;according to&nbsp;<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/protesters-chicago-lightfoot\">Fox News<\/a><\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many of the attendees posted footage of the event to social media under the the hashtag #2Years2Much, which is a reference to the two-year anniversary of her mayoral inauguration as the city\u2019s first female black mayor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not enough to be black, it\u2019s not enough to be female, you gotta be right,\u201d said Tara Stamps, who works for Chicago Public Schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago\u2019s rank-and-file police officers issued a vote of \u201cno-confidence\u201d against Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her chosen head of the city\u2019s police force, David Brown.The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312694,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lori-Lightfoot.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Slap In The Face\u2019: Chicago Cops Vote \u2018No-Confidence\u2019 In Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Police Chief David Brown","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lori-Lightfoot.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Slap In The Face\u2019: Chicago Cops Vote \u2018No-Confidence\u2019 In Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Police Chief David Brown","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}