By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Eddie Johnson are calling on people to come forward and tell police who’s responsible for the 11 murders among 74 shootings over the weekend. Meanwhile, mayoral challenger Paul Vallas has a proposal to help make that happen.
Fear is why so many people in the high-crime communities don’t come forward. Vallas says if the police department would bring-back 400 retired detectives, some of that fear would go away.
“When you have enough experienced detectives working in the detective division,” says Vallas, “who the community knows and is familiar with, they’re gonna be more included to come forward and co-operate. So they’ll have more confidence that if they co-operate with the police officers, there’ not gonna be retribution.”
One of the other challengers, Garry McCarthy, the police superintendent Mayor Emanuel fired, says Rahm should commit more millions to police operations instead of sprucing up the River Walk downtown.
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