CPD’s overtime costs have soared because officers’ salaries and benefits have gone up significantly while the number of CPD members has decreased by approximately 1,200 employees since 2019, Chicago Police Department Deputy Director Ryan Fitzsimons told members of the City Council’s Budget and Government Operations Committee.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Someone has to fill those empty 1,900 badges. Sounds like the peacekeepers only work days. Crime is best done at night
As pointed out, the thugs, er, peacekeepers do only work M-F, 9-5. Wouldn’t want to tire these ex- cons out or put them in harm’s way, would you?