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Brandon Johnson: “By the end of my first term, we would have 200 more…”

Featuring: Brandon Johnson, Democratic | Mayor of Chicago | Illinois

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One-on-one with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson | Cap Times Idea Fest

Published | Video Starts at 49:50

We're expanding those workers, but we're also making sure that we have detectives that can solve crimes. Right. And so I said By the end of my first term, we would have 200 more detectives. Well, we're going to have 200 detectives by the end of this year. So halfway through. Through, we'll have the number of detectives that we need to make sure that we are, you know, engaging in constitutional policing. (49:50–49:55)

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