{"id":21446,"date":"2021-09-11T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T03:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=21446"},"modified":"2021-09-11T22:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T03:13:06","slug":"alderman-reilly-in-the-news-wgn-radio-interview-increased-police-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=21446","title":{"rendered":"Alderman Reilly In the News: WGN Radio Interview &#8211; Increased Police Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21484 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Reilly-Brendan-1-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0On Thursday, September 9, Alderman Reilly joined Anna Davlantes on WGN Radio to discuss the Chicago Police Department (CPD) increasing police presence in River North\u2019s hospitality corridors, during the overnight\u00a0hours. Please\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/wgnradio.com\/anna-davlantes\/ald-brendan-reilly-on-the-need-to-hire-more-police-officers-we-need-to-remind-people-that-this-is-an-honorable-profession-and-much-needed\/\">click here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to listen to the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Alderman Reilly was very pleased to see a visible increase in police foot and bike patrols throughout River North last weekend. CPD also reported that since September 1, 18th District officers made 10 arrests,\u00a0recovered 5 illegal firearms, towed 76 vehicles, and completed 22 Investigatory Stop Reports in River North\u2019s entertainment district.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Hein has assured Alderman Reilly that this level of response will be the \u201cnew normal\u201d until crime in River North is under control. The Alderman appreciates CPD\u2019s hard work and is hopeful the sustained\u00a0effort will make an immediate and significant impact to cure the area of criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Alderman Reilly is committed to leveraging all available City resources to enhance public safety. Mayor Lori Lightfoot will present her 2022 Budget Recommendations to the City Council on Friday,\u00a0September 17. Alderman Reilly is eager to review the CPD budget, specifically the amount of money allocated to hiring new officers. He will be advocating that CPD hire hundreds of new officers to off-set the recent\u00a0attrition of officers CPD has experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it is no secret that morale among police officers is at an all-time low. Between mandatory over-time, cancelling days off, and reassigning officers to unfamiliar districts, their efforts are often not properly\u00a0recognized. Alderman Reilly encourages residents to attend your local CAPS meeting to stay up to date on crime and safety issues, as well as develop a relationship with the beat cops who patrol their neighborhood &#8211;\u00a0attend, and thank your local cops for their unwavering commitment to serve and protect.<\/p>\n<p>A message from RNRA: \u00a0We encourage all residents to attend their CAPS Beat Meetings.<\/p>\n<p>To find your District and Beat, <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/operations.chicagopolice.org\/FindMyDistrict\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>To find the date\/time for your Beat Meeting and the Zoom link, <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/caps-beat-meetings-2021\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0On Thursday, September 9, Alderman Reilly joined Anna Davlantes on WGN Radio to discuss the Chicago Police Department (CPD) increasing police presence in River North\u2019s hospitality corridors, during the overnight\u00a0hours. Please\u00a0click here\u00a0to listen to the interview. Alderman Reilly was very pleased to see a visible increase in police foot and bike patrols throughout River North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}