• from Secondcitycop.blogspot.com
• A proposal to hire more police officers rather than pay up to $100 million in overtime died in the Budget Committee Monday.
  
  The measure, which would have diverted $25 million in the 2014 city budget to hire at least 200 and as many as 500 more officers, was tabled under a motion by Ald. James Balcer (11th), head of the Public Safety Committee.
• Budget Director Alexandra Holt testified Monday that, while a rookie officer has a salary of $43,000, total first-year costs of hiring that officer were $76,000.
  
  "The costs begin to accumulate quite quickly," Holt added, with police salary topping $100,000 within four years.

Really? Someone has been shorting us then. Let's get out the calculators. We're owed at least a quarter million at those rates. Anyone else want to hop on this one?

 

Shootings are up, other crime stats are artifically down due to false reporting and citizen safety is at all time lows and this dies in committee.

 

The Alderman have no trouble giving themselves raises but table anything that has to do with public safety.

 

We need new politicians in office...now.