There is a new headache bugging Chicago’s headstrong Mayor Brandon Johnson, caused by newspaper headlines about a public opinion poll on how Mayor Johnson’s doing in his new job. According to the poll, not very well. Only 21% of 500 registered voters in Chicago approve of how Johnson’s doing. Nearly 70% disapprove and are rating his performance as just fair to poor. Those headlines about Mayor Johnson are in the news during these hard times of tough issues. The migrants, the gun violence in Chicago neighborhoods, the police in Chicago Public Schools. Mayor Johnson wants the cops out of public school and has told the Chicago Board of Education to get them out, which it seems to me, would be a wrong thing to do. In the news of killer shootings in public schools, the facts are 14 students dead in Parkland, Florida, 19 dead in Uvalde, Texas, 20 students dead in Newtown, Connecticut. In Chicago, just a few days ago, a student was shot dead, two students wounded, on their way home from school. If there’s a possibility, even a remote possibility, the Chicago police officer can prevent the shooting of yet another student, don’t take him or her out of any public school. Safer yet, Mr. Mayor, put more police in.

Walter Jacobson gives his Perspective: