Arne Duncan, the former CEO of Chicago schools, laid out his plan Wednesday to turn around a police department in crisis and curb violence in the city.
There are also 1,400 fewer police officers in 2022 than there were three years ago.
"CPD has been decimated by cuts in police and ineffective strategies that have left police exhausted and neighborhoods under-patrolled," Duncan said in a statement. "It’s time to get police back on the beat and focused on arresting shooters while we simultaneously engage young people at risk and give them a path into the legal economy."
Duncan outlined four core strategies Wednesday for improving public safety and holding shooters accountable. "First we must restore patrol and accelerate reforms to drive police legitimacy. Secondly, we have to rethink the roll of police to free them up to focus more on violence," Duncan said. "Third, we have to take violence prevention efforts to scale. And fourth, we have to provide people in our neighborhoods with the opportunity to work to have a job."