- Chicago police officials said at a City Council budget hearing today that the city will spend $93 million in police overtime this year but Superintendent Garry McCarthy defended Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision not to expand the force against aldermen who said the huge OT bill means there are not enough police officers.
The overtime estimate is well beyond the $70 million in overtime Emanuel has included in his 2014 budget proposal, which would keep the number of cops steady at about 12,500.
“We’ve got adequate resources, and we’re making a difference,” McCarthy told Ald. Willie Cochran, 20th, a former police officer who asked if the city needed to work more closely with Illinois State Police.
McCarthy touted "lower" crime numbers...in certain selected categories. And he pushed for longer sentences for gun crimes, but guess who's objecting to that?
- McCarthy also plugged the mayor’s effort to get the General Assembly to enact mandatory minimum sentences, which has been controversial among African American aldermen.
That is a large part of their voting base, but at the same time, the aldercreatures are making their other voters victims of those who don't obey the law anyway.
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