Chicago’s police department plans to hire nearly 1,000 officers over the next two years in a bid to combat a surge of violence in the third-largest U.S. city including more than 500 murders this year, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on Wednesday.
The department will add 970 officers to its force including 516 patrol officers, 92 field-training officers, 112 sergeants, 50 lieutenants and 200 detectives, police Chief Eddie Johnson told the newspaper.
The city currently has around 12,000 officers, the newspaper reported.
Chicago is struggling with a wave of violence that has included 509 murders in the city already this year, according to Chicago Police Department statistics, a 46 percent increase from last year.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had been reluctant to hire more officers, relying instead on existing officers to work overtime. He is scheduled to give a speech on the city’s crime problem on Thursday night.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chicago-police-idUSKCN11R1XB
“Chicago’s police department plans to hire nearly 1,000 officers over the next two years…”
The main reason it’s over the next two years is because most of their top choices haven’t been paroled yet.
I have a solution. …
Just put a badge on all the gang members.
Wow. The police and Feds drop loads of guns in Chicago alleys and then they wonder why they need 1000 more police officers.
Unfrigginbelievable……
Problem-Reaction-Solution.
That’s always the solution…. More uniformed, organized, unionized armed thugs on the street. Usually with tax money extracted from the citizens. Here’s an ideal asswipes, how about letting the citizens of shitcago arm themselves? But that would be too f#@king simple wouldn’t it? And no job security in that option. The sheriff of Clark County, NV is crying the same old song like the crappy sheriff before him and the one before him. Give us more taxes for more piggy’s on the street. Yes, we need more f#@king taxes, uniformed thugs, more illegal mexicans and imported Muslims.
More pigs will do absolutely NOTHING. IDIOTS! And, after raising taxes through the roof to cover for their past follies, just how are they going to afford this? Bloodsuckers.