Priorities
Public Safety
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Address Chicago’s Public Safety Crisis
Restore Order on Public Transit
Safe, Clean & Reliable: Mandatory for a world-class transit system. No one should be scared to ride public transit.
Police & Transit Partnership: Effective security and visibility on every line. We need police back on our trains.
Enforcing Existing Laws: Restoring safety, order, and accountability. Enforcement of existing laws to restore order to our public transit system.
Faster Commutes: Dedicated bus lanes to move Chicago efficiently.
Protecting System Revenue: Advance fare gates to reduce fare evasion and revenue loss. More accessible gates like those in other cities.
Treat Safety as a Core Responsibility
Public safety requires trust — and trust requires leadership. As your mayor, I will earn your trust by making your safety my priority.
Real progress is when Chicagoans feel safer because they actually are safer.
We are going to work to address public safety in every neighborhood.
I won’t play favorites on which neighborhoods deserve to feel safer. They all do.
Support our First Responders
My administration will stand behind the brave men and women of the Chicago Police Department.
We will work hand in hand with the next Superintendent and empower them and our police officers to do their job.
We will fill police vacancies and lift their morale.
We will rebuild trust between our officers and the communities they serve and protect.
By leveraging AI-assisted administrative technologies, we will redirect Officers away from time-consuming desk work and back to the streets.
We will lean into innovation and bring back life-saving tools like ShotSpotter, which detects and alerts police to gunshots, allowing officers to render aid in time to save lives.
No More Excuses for Violent Crime
Violence needs to be met with accountability.
That means leading our city and its policies from a moral compass that puts victims first and holds offenders accountable. No more excuses for violent crime.
I believe in investing heavily in education and programming that helps people choose a life of success – my record reflects that. I believe in 2nd chances, but not in 52nd chances.
If you choose a life of crime, you must be held accountable. It’s an issue of fairness and balance, and plain ol’ common sense.
Work to Amend the SAFE-T Act
People accused of Murder, Attempted Murder, or Predatory Sexual Assault should not be eligible for Electronic Monitoring, and worse yet, get two days off the monitoring grid.
It defies all common sense; it’s deadly dangerous, and it needs to stop.
The SAFE-T Act needs to be amended by repealing this provision.
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