John Garrido III [retired Chicago Police Officer, Violent Crime Hearing]: Just the first one hundred days since Mayor Johnson was sworn into office…we've had over two hundred homicides, nine hundred people have been shot, two thousand, five hundred robberies, five thousand stolen cars, two thousand burglaries, and three hundred car jackings. Since January of 2020, almost fifteen thousand people have been shot in the city of Chicago, and almost three thousand have been murdered.

Garrido: It's not just laws that make our communities unsafe. These elected officials have discarded experience, and use race and gender to select the leaders of our department. The last superintendent, David Brown, was probably the worst of all. He brought us scarecrow policing, excessive cancelled days off that exhausted our officers, politically motivated punishments and penalties for minor infractions, and promotion after promotion of inexperienced officers based solely on their gender and the color of their skin. We have people now in this department that have actually gone from the rank of Sergent to Deputy Chief in ten months. Or they've gone from Sergent to Commander in less than to months, and they haven't been given the opportunity to learn their roles in those positions before they move on to the next rank.