Mayor Lori Lightfoot pushed back hard after the Civic Federation on Wednesday used a public hearing on her proposed $16.4 billion budget to demand that the city “dramatically increase transparency around” police spending.
Civic Federation President Laurence Msall said it is “very difficult to track how much is going into policing,” how much is tied to complying with a federal consent decree and where exactly the nearly $100 million increase in the Chicago Police Department’s $1.87 billion budget is going.
