- Mayor Rahm Emanuel is putting 114 Chicago Police officers back on the street, redeploying them from specialized units and administrative posts.
Emanuel joined police Supt. Garry McCarthy Wednesday at the Broadway Armory in the Edgewater neighborhood, to announce the the redeployment of 114 police officers to the city’s 25 police districts.
Of those officers, 59 will come from specialized units. The remaining 55 are currently assigned to administrative positions within the department’s Bureau of Patrol.
- These latest reassignments will bring to 881 the number of officers returned to beat patrol since Emanuel took office in May. Many have been reassigned from desk duty....
And many others have been shuffled. After moving the goal posts, Rahm is claiming 881. More than half of that total was already on the street - MSF and TRU. Fifty others were PPO's who came off their training status. Now he admits another 59 are coming from "specialized units." The fact that he differentiates them from "administrative positions" means they were already on the street in some capacity.
And as someone pointed out in the comment sections, all this without hiring a single body, but the retirement posters keep going up.
And as someone pointed out in the comment sections, all this without hiring a single body, but the retirement posters keep going up.