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In public discourse, Mayor Johnson often highlights efforts to build the “safest and most affordable big city in America.” Yet, reality paints a different picture. Chicago's crime rate remains alarmingly high, with incidents involving heavy-handed police tactics sparking outrage. Notably, reports of Black women and children being zip-tied, and a Black man subjected to an illegal chokehold—an act that in the United States is widely recognized as potentially deadly—have amplified fears of excessive law enforcement violence targeting Black communities.