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The union representing Chicago police sergeants has released a letter demanding changes to the department’s reliance on 12-hour shifts and canceled days off. The letter coming after Chicago saw one of it’s most deadly weekends so far this year.
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The point of the long shifts is to burn out officers. They retire, or leave to take jobs in the suburbs, and the number of incoming recruits at the academy is too small to replace those that leave.
She is purposely defunding and demoralizing the police without explicitly saying so.
This will fix the crime problem, for sure!