Five years ago, Lori Lightfoot launched her political career with a declaration of independence from the mayor who appointed her as Police Board president.
She told the City Club the Chicago Police Department “desperately needs” a new training academy. But Lightfoot said Rahm Emanuel was making a mistake by building “this edifice to policing” in the “high-crime, impoverished” West Side neighborhood, where “police and community relations are fraught” — and without a “clear plan for community engagement.”
