Chicago Shakeup: Following Lori Lightfoot’s Defeat, Two Senior Chicago Officials Resign

David Brown, the Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, one of the largest sworn police forces in the nation, tendered his resignation on Wednesday. John Lausch, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois handed in his own only hours later. The resignation of both lawmen came within a few hours of the election defeat of disgraced Chicago Democrat, Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Fox News reported that Brown was appointed as superintendent at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns and drew heavy criticism for slamming the brakes on Democrat-led attempts to ‘defund the police,’ instead rerouting officers to the streets in a desperate attempt to counter skyrocketing crime rates.

Fox Chicago reported, “CPD was in the midst of a reorganization spearheaded by the interim superintendent. Specialized units were being disbanded. Those officers, including detectives, were reassigned to neighborhood police districts.

Brown reversed field, enlarging citywide units and relying on them even more after demonstrations triggered by the murder of George Floyd devolved into looting.”

The local outlet wrote that Chicago City Council members accused Brown of “raiding their areas” to staff the citywide units and protect downtown, to the detriment of outlying areas.

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Lightfoot said in a statement, “I personally want to thank him for his service to our city. First Deputy Eric Carter will be appointed as interim superintendent until the new Mayor is sworn into office. We ask the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability to immediately begin the search for a new Superintendent so that the new Mayor will be able to make a selection as soon as possible.”

Mayoral candidates Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson who are locked in an April 4th runoff both commented.

Johnson said in a statement, “The next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department must be as fully committed to the health and safety of all Chicagoans as I am, and to immediately meeting all requirements of the federal consent decree while addressing the root causes of crime.”

Valles took a far more critical stance in his statement writing, “Superintendent Brown failed to make our city safer and his resignation is a positive step forward. As Mayor, I will appoint a new police superintendent and command team from within CPD that will prioritize community policing, end the failed friends and family promotion system and invest in building trust between the police and our communities.”

In his own statement, Brown told reporters that he has accepted a private sector role as a Chief Operating Officer for the law firm Loncar Lyon Jenkins in Texas.

“It has been an honor and a privilege to work alongside the brave men and women of the Chicago Police Department. I will continue to pray that all officers return home to their families safe at the end of their shift,” he said.

U.S. Attorney Lausch, a Trump appointee who worked prosecuting federal crimes out of Chicago, particularly among organized crime and firearms offenses resigned with far less fanfare. He said in a statement, “It has been the privilege of a lifetime to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago.”

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