{"id":637156,"date":"2021-08-12T12:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637156"},"modified":"2021-08-12T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:52:07","slug":"chicago-mayor-lightfoot-to-increase-police-budget-after-roughly-1k-officers-resign-1-officer-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-to-increase-police-budget-after-roughly-1k-officers-resign-1-officer-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor Lightfoot to increase police budget after roughly 1K officers resign, 1 officer murdered"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fchicago-mayor-lightfoot-to-increase-police-budget-after-roughly-1k-officers-resign-1-officer-murdered%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=637156&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 id=\"attachment_2489803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2489803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHICAGO, ILLINOIS \u2013 JULY 16: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot takes a question during a press conference with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during a visit to a commuter transportation hub on July 16, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:46 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, August 12, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot has agreed to boost police funding after tragedy struck her city\u2019s police department. Following hundreds of police officers\u2019 resignations in the Windy City and one officer recently murdered, Lightfoot said at a press conference on Wednesday that she promises to increase police funding in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, 29-year-old Chicago police officer Ella French was shot during a traffic stop and later died from her wounds. Her partner was also shot and hospitalized with his condition remaining unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Following the tragic incident, Mayor Lightfoot went to the hospital where the wounded officers were taken. However, police officers visiting their colleagues reportedly turned their backs on the far-left lawmaker who previously proposed a mass cut to the department\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some say we don&#8217;t do enough for the police. Others say we do too much. All of this must stop. <\/p>\n<p>We have a common enemy: it&#8217;s guns &amp; the violence they bring.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagosmayor\/status\/1424412067923206151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When reporters asked Lightfoot about the encounter, she shifted the focus and didn\u2019t provide a response to the officers dismissal of her. \u201cThere was a lot of emotion running that night. There were hundreds of officers that were there and there was a lot of emotion on the range of spectrum and that\u2019s to be expected,\u201d said Lightfoot. \u201cThis was a really hard loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Lightfoot didn\u2019t indicate just how much she would increase the department\u2019s $1.6 billion budget, but said they need to bring in the \u201cnext generation of officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Alderman Matt O\u2019Shea said he\u2019s heard from police that they feel like both leaders and residents in Chicago don\u2019t support them. They believe this could be a factor that has likely led to the thousand officer loss seen in the city, showing a major decline compared to prior years.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, police superintendent David O\u2019Neal Brown said nearly 40 officers have been shot at or struck in 2021 alone. Timing for Lightfoot\u2019s new push to provide additional funding for police comes after officer morale has reached all time lows and growing crime has continued to threaten the Chicago area.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mayor Lightfoot joins CPD Superintendent Brown for a media availability regarding last night\u2019s tragic events.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vXhjgRn2tn\">https:\/\/t.co\/vXhjgRn2tn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 City of Chicago (@chicago) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicago\/status\/1424406945612455938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/gop-blocks-for-the-people-act-from-moving-forward-before-senate-goes-on-recess\/\">GOP Blocks \u2018For The People Act\u2019 From Moving Forward Before Senate Goes On Recess<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, ILLINOIS \u2013 JULY 16: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot takes a question during a press conference with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during a visit to a commuter transportation hub on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637156","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}