After protesters showed up with bullhorns at the Lakeview home of Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs last month, officials did what you might expect: they beefed up security at his family home. Those efforts were redoubled after an arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s home on April 13.
But the added security services were not provided by the Illinois State Police, the agency responsible for protecting many of the state’s highest-ranking leaders. Instead, the Chicago Police Department pulled patrol cars that would ordinarily be responding to 911 calls in the Lakeview-based Town Hall (19th) District and had those officers spend their shifts sitting outside Frerichs’ home.
Less than an hour after CWBChicago asked Frerichs’ office and CPD about the unusual arrangements on Tuesday, police leaders stopped “detailing” city resources to Frerich’s house…