Final Tally: More Than 1,750 Chicago Police Officers Won’t Have to Get Vaccinated

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Members of the Chicago Police Department account for 40% of the city’s workforce but make up more than 69% of all employees who were exempted from the vaccine.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration exempted more than 1,750 members of the Chicago Police Department from the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and has not moved to terminate a single police officer for failing to comply with the order in the more than two months since the final deadline passed, officials told WTTW News.That amounts to approximately 14% of the 12,537-member Chicago Police Department, double the number of exemptions granted to any other city department. By comparison, 6.

Six members of the Chicago Police Department are not being paid because they have not been vaccinated or received an exemption, department spokesperson Maggie Huynh told WTTW News. Department leaders have not begun disciplinary proceedings against any member for violating the city’s vaccine mandate, Huynh said.

The last time Lightfoot faced questions from the news media on the vaccine mandate from reporters was April 19, when she said it was “incorrect” to suggest that Chicago Police officers had disproportionately received exemptions from her vaccine mandate. When Lightfoot announced the vaccine mandate in October, she said “the legitimacy of local policing” was at stake. Lightfoot campaigned for mayor in 2019 on a promise to restore the public’s trust in the beleaguered Police Department, which has faced decades of scandals, misconduct and brutality.

 

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Huh?

Who cares more people getting shot than coved19 get real

FOP7Chicago Vaccination should be a choice by the person and not their employer.

Good.

Smart people 👍🏼

So………?

FOP7Chicago I remember a few months ago when she said it was a handful… I recall being surprised because she said was number like less than a dozen. Maybe she has been given bad data.

Why don't you report on how most politicians claim about caring for those with mental illness yet they're the responsible people for the closure of most of the mental health institutions and clinics.

So what…

FOP7Chicago And covid is over so cares about who sis and who did not get it at this point.

FOP7Chicago Give it a rest WTTW!! Geez..

FOP7Chicago Omg the useless vaccine. In the fist 90 days of the covid outbreak the virus swept thought they population and wreaked havoc. After that it was all mask theater and psyops to divide the county and rig an election. Tue vaccine was a political tool that’s all.

RebelliousMag Nothing about this is shocking.

Google 40% of cops to learn more

So you're advocating for a Marxist Color Revolution, then. Nice.

Pitiful

lib_crusher Fucking ridiculous

lib_crusher and 99% of lawsuits against the city

40%..🤔🤔

cpd has long assumed the law and standards don't apply to them, no shock here

Oh interesting, I encourage you to google “40% police” for more information

lib_crusher Wait they’re actually 40% of the workforce? That’s so fucked up.

lib_crusher

chicagosmayor WEAK. PATHETIC. THEY WALK ALL OVER YOU

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