In Chicago, as recently as in 2021, 660 officers retired and collected pensions, exacerbating the issue of staffing and leaving department heads scrambling to keep neighborhoods adequately patrolled. Even with an uptick in new hires in 2022, the number of sworn police officers across the city has not increased much as those numbers have been offset by ongoing departures.
The Board of Trade as Section 8 housing is about the most fitting description of Chicago’s downfall as anyone could imagine. Literally riches to rags in 100 years.
Trash Panda
3 years ago
Nobody wants the cop job so money is being wasted. The next hires for the CPD will have criminal records, more gang affiliations, psychological issues, deadbeats and other issues that will create an enormous problem. Every police department that lowered standards has seen this effect. No man or woman with any sort of smarts would take the police job.
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.
The Board of Trade as Section 8 housing is about the most fitting description of Chicago’s downfall as anyone could imagine. Literally riches to rags in 100 years.
Nobody wants the cop job so money is being wasted. The next hires for the CPD will have criminal records, more gang affiliations, psychological issues, deadbeats and other issues that will create an enormous problem. Every police department that lowered standards has seen this effect. No man or woman with any sort of smarts would take the police job.