As the toll from shootings mounted over the long holiday weekend in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson said it would take time and help from the community “to get ourselves out of this rut.”
“Here is what we need to remind ourselves,” Johnson said Monday as he repeated themes from his mayoral campaign. “If we’re going to get ourselves out of this rut, it’s going to take all of us ... Everybody knows if your only strategy is policing — that is the old way of doing things and that has not worked.”
