Lightfoot's No-Nononsense Approach to Police Reform

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Lightfoot was the face of police reform in Chicago. When she ran, she represented where we were as a city and where we are as a country on police reform. She comes into office with sort of an edict from the people to fix policing. How does she handle it? The pandemic hits. And at first, things are going swimmingly.

Chicagoans feel unsafe, and many blame Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The two Democrats on the ballot to replace her have starkly different views on what the city should do next. WBEZ’s Patrick Smith and Mariah Woelfel explain.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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