Chicago Police Have A New Anti-Violence Effort. How Did The Last One Spend 4 Million Hours Of Overtime? – WBEZ (Chicago)

Alexander Weiss, a police staffing consultant and the former director of the Center for Public Safety at Northwestern University, has conducted two staffing studies for the Chicago Police Department: “There’s a risk that you can send them out, say, ‘OK, just be visible.’ They’re going to do things to show that they’re there and show some productivity like parking tickets. But it is the case that having police visible in high-crime areas is probably a good thing. You know, and in some areas, it probably makes people feel safer.”