EL City Council discusses police realignment progress East Lansing City Council meeting on May 18, 2021. — East Lansing City Council members pressed East Lansing Police Chief Kim Johnson on the progress of the proposed realignment of East Lansing’s police department in a City Council meeting on May 18. City Manager George Lahanas presented a plan of realignment of the ELPD during a City Council meeting in July 2020. The document suggested changes in several areas, including staffing and adding alternative positions like social workers. The meeting touched on the progress made in these areas, as well as the shortcomings in others. Lahanas discussed how the city followed through with its plan to reduce the number of officers as well as its hiring and training of these alternative positions.