Paul Vallas, the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, is currently the city’s front-runner in a race that has come to be dominated by concerns about crime. “He’s had probably the best and clearest message,” one Chicago-based strategist tells VF.
—is best positioned to defeat him. Should Vallas ultimately take City Hall, he’s likely to usher in an even more aggressive approach to public safety in a city that still bears the scars of its ugly history of police brutality.
“I think it’s just a matter of the dog whistles of racial politics,” Brown says, “but also politics in general.” To be sure, crime is a very real issue here—one that is acutely felt by residents of the South and West sides of the city, which have historically been neglected by the city’s power structure. “Communities are exhausted from the sporadic violence,” Brown says.
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