“There is no question that the degradation of discourse around policing and police funding, the lack of accountability in our justice system, and the significant increase in drug, gang, and gun violence have all played a part in escalating the danger for our profession.”
CACP President Chief Danny Smyth
Chicago, Illinois has a new mayor as of May whose campaign focused on defunding police.
The police department is "already down nearly two thousand officers," the union added. "We cannot sustain a mass exodus of manpower. Our pension fund cannot handle that exodus either longterm." It concluded that voters had seven days to "save the city."
Despite the union's warning Johnson defeated Vallas 51% to 49%.
Vallas' campaign focused on the city's crime problem and he promised to hire hundreds of officers. He was backed by Chicago's Lodge 7 Fraternal Order of Police.
Johnson, a Cook County Commissioner and a Teachers Union organizer, advocated defunding police in 2020.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports Johnson said on March 27 that he will not cut “one penny” from CPD’s budget.
Further to the problem!
London, Ontario councillors want only white people.
"Apr. 3, 2023, London, Ont. – Despite a pressure campaign to get city councillors to rethink their appointment to London, Ont.’s police oversight body — including a call from former members to select an Indigenous person to “break the cycle” of systemic racism — local politicians say they won’t change their votes. Last week, eight councillors voted to appoint Ryan Gauss, a Liberal Party staffer and the mayor’s campaign manager in the last election, to the board. Fifty-three other applicants were also in the running. Only Gauss, who is white, and two others received votes — Joe Wabegijig, an Indigenous man, and Zeba Hashmi, a Muslim woman. Hashmi was eliminated after the first round of voting."
https://www.blueline.ca/letter-signed-by-former-police-board-members-urges-council-to-change-vote/
"EDMONTON - The Alberta government wants 100 more street-level police officers hired over the next year and a half as part of a plan to tackle increased violence on the public transit systems of Edmonton and Calgary.
Premier Danielle Smith says she has directed her emergency services minister to get the officers into high-crime areas in both cities."
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/04/04/alberta-government-wants-100-new-police-officers-to-combat-violence-on-transit.html
With that attitude to refund police why would anyone want to be an LEO?
Calgary mayor declines to respond to query regarding her support to defund the police. https://twitter.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/1643341014160089095?s=20