CHICAGO – A Chicago councilman is “pushed to his limits” after learning that a senior public safety adviser in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration was arrested Tuesday on an outstanding warrant.
As a $103,488-a-year “senior community safety advisor,” 33-year-old Alyxandra Goodwin helped lead the government’s charge against ShotSpotter, but she ended up on the other side of the law Tuesday afternoon in the 6600 block of South Cornell. That’s where Chicago police encountered Goodwin and arrested her on an outstanding DuPage County warrant, according to internal CPD communications.
Goodwin appeared in court Wednesday morning and court records show Judge Deidre Dyer ordered her held on the arrest warrant, which is for a misdemeanor charge of driving with a suspended license. A 2021 Naperville Sun story reported that Goodwin was arrested that year for driving with a suspended license in the suburb. It is unclear whether this was the reason for the arrest warrant.
Ald. David Moore (17th) posted a photo of Goodwin with a screenshot of her LinkedIn bio on Wednesday afternoon. Moore led the City Council’s efforts to keep the ShotSpotter technology active in the city, but Johnson canceled the program anyway on September 22, ignoring pleas from aldermen, the police commissioner and ordinary Chicago residents.
“I am lost in the highest form of pissed off,” Moore said in his Facebook post. “Rev. Clay Evans always said don’t spit in my face and say it’s raining.
“As councilor, my primary responsibility is to serve the residents of the 17th Ward. I took up the ShotSpotter issue because of the concerns of my residents and because of what I know makes a difference in our community,” he continued.
“However, it bothers me when people and organizations outside of our community lead the effort to tell us what is good for our community. I do my best to fight for or against policies that impact my residents,” Moore wrote.
“I do not fight on behalf of organizations or interest groups. That’s why I’m so bullied and disturbed by this information. This administration is trying to end ShotSpotter and endanger the lives of my residents by hiring an individual whose sole purpose and mission is to end ShotSpotter and discourage the safety of our communities,” he said.
“But don’t get involved with this person, but with a system of certain white people, groups or organizations who use our community as models. As the title says: black people are a PROJECT to them, guinea pigs. It is important that you know the policies and people I am trying to protect my residents from,” the post concludes.
Goodwin has been deeply involved in ‘social justice’ initiatives for years. She called the police “the power of racial capitalism.” At the end of 2015, she published an article entitled: “A few ways to support police abolition in the new year (or now)..”
The mayor’s office did not respond to an email seeking input on this report.
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