As crime rates surge, so are vaccine mandates — and resistance by police to those mandates. That means major cities across the United States risk losing one-third or more of their police forces, hesitant about getting the COVID-19 shot.
In Chicago, more than 4,500 employees of the Chicago Police Department — about one-third of both officers and civilian employees — refused to disclose their vaccine status. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the city’s Fraternal Order of Police are in a political standoff.
Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said last week, “It’s safe to say that the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50% or less for this weekend coming up.”
A real disruption also soon could hit Los Angeles, where the city’s vaccine mandate deadline is in December. Last month, employees of the Los Angeles Police Department filed a federal lawsuit opposing the city’s vaccine mandate. Likewise, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told The Associated Press earlier this month, “I don’t want to be in a position to lose 5[%], 10% of my workforce overnight.” He added that he won’t enforce the county-level mandate.
“It’s impossible to know how long this potentially lasts. We could see extreme shortages,” Jason Johnson, a former deputy commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, now president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, told The Daily Signal. “Are cities going to enforce this mandate? There is greater risk to public safety by enforcing the mandate than not enforcing the mandate.”
Two-thirds of Baltimore Police Department employees got at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, below the Maryland state average of 85%, Baltimore’s WJZ-TV reported. Those numbers are similar to Chicago’s.
What seems to be going on is pure evil by our government.
Now they are also going after our children from 5 years old on.
Medical and government tyranny. I’ve had a reprieve from this at work but I fear it won’t last for
long because of a worker shortage at my job and pushback from me and others when confronted about the jab!
I think they will come at us again hard and heavy after Christmas.
I am putting off making any major purchases because of this.
Awesome, the armed citizens can deal with the criminal elements
Let the criminals kill off each other > REAL JUSTICE !!!!
And that is why the citizens are locking and loading
Good! I’m glad they will not back down to unrealistic demands made by our crooked government. They think more of their health than their job, which doesn’t mean anything if they don’t have their health. That vaccine is dangerous. To take it is like playing Russian roulette .
The current powers in DC are penalizing free thinkers as they deem them a threat against their agenda.