Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appoints new deputy mayor of public safety: ‘We have to have a basic le

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appoints new deputy mayor of public safety: ‘We have to have a basic level of safety’

by Gregory Pratt
June 25, 2019



Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s choice to be the city’s deputy mayor of public safety is Susan Lee, a senior director at an anti-violence nonprofit who says reducing violence is her mission.

Lee, 51, is the senior director of Safe Chicago Network at Chicago CRED (Creating Real Economic Destiny), a nonprofit where former Obama administration education secretary and Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan is managing partner.
Lee has worked on anti-violence issues across the country, including in Los Angeles, and said her first priority in the new role “is to establish a basic level of safety in all communities in Chicago.”

“It’s a mission for me because I think that it’s a shame that we have gotten to this level in one of the richest countries in the world and we owe it to these communities and the kids who live in these communities to create opportunity,” Lee said. “To get there, we have to have a basic level of safety.”

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