In Chicago, gang violence and gun deaths have reached crisis levels. It is fitting, then, that Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed to build a $95 million police training academy to better govern the chaos.
However, social justice activists and community organizers feel those funds would be better spent on public school students, and last week around 50 teenagers held a sit-in at Chicago City Hall to protest the proposal. The students held mock tombstones to represent the victims of police shootings, even though gang violence is by far a larger problem in Chicago.
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