By fall 2011, months after taking office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he had fulfilled a campaign pledge to move some 1,000 cops to beat patrols to beef up the Police Department's front lines in the fight on crime.
But in the more than two years since then, those numbers have plunged by hundreds of cops, the city's own data show.
According to the data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, the department had 7,078 rank-and-file officers and supervisors assigned to work in its 22 patrol districts as of Dec. 8, a decline of 10 percent, or 779 beat officers, since fall 2011.
(link below)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-chicago-police-staffing-met-20140206,0,7386109.story
Thursday, February 6, 2014
CHICAGO COPS ARE RETIRING FASTER THEN THE CITY CAN HIRE NEW ONES
By fall 2011, months after taking office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he had fulfilled a campaign pledge to move some 1,000 cops to beat patrols to beef up the Police Department's front lines in the fight on crime.
But in the more than two years since then, those numbers have plunged by hundreds of cops, the city's own data show.
According to the data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, the department had 7,078 rank-and-file officers and supervisors assigned to work in its 22 patrol districts as of Dec. 8, a decline of 10 percent, or 779 beat officers, since fall 2011.
(link below)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-chicago-police-staffing-met-20140206,0,7386109.story
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