(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Mayor Johnson on Thursday unveiled a strategy to fight crime and promote public safety that featured familiar talking points and no financial cost estimates.
Johnson and top aides introduced the "People's Plan For Community Safety,” which includes components to invest in neglected communities and provide support to the most vulnerable residents.
“Where this is a crisis, you must triage. And that is why we are first focusing our efforts on neighborhoods that have suffered from decades of indifference and disinvestment,” Johnson said at a news conference at Kennedy-King College on the South Side.
Johnson has long pushed this approach. Missing Thursday were specific details about the public-safety plan and what the effort might cost cash-strapped city government.
Among the administration representatives present for the rollout was Police Supt. Larry Snelling, who said some crime statistics show improvement in Chicago. He said his officers would engage with the communities they serve.
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