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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Newest mayoral challenger vows to tackle issue of allocating police to neighborhoods most in need

New Chicago Police Department officers take an oath during their graduation at Navy Pier in March. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Mayoral challenger Sophia King vowed Thursday to tackle a vexing issue that Chicago mayors have been avoiding for decades — by putting more police officers where calls for service are the highest.

Last year, a model designed by the University of Chicago Crime Lab called for a radical approach to the perennial demand to assign more Chicago Police Department officers in those violent neighborhoods most in need of steadily diminishing police resources.

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