Rogers Park to get more beat cops
Posted by loyolastudentdispatch on July 18, 2011
Rogers Park will be among the neighborhoods to receive more beat officers under a plan by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to place more cops on the streets.
Here are highlights form a story from the Chicago Tribune:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans to assign 92 more police officers — including several dozen from administrative jobs in City Hall and police headquarters — to beat patrols as part of his effort to boost the number of cops in neighborhoods hit hard by crime.
More than half of the officers are new graduates from the Chicago Police Academy, while 39 were pulled from desk jobs throughout the department.
The latest plan raised the number of police officers reassigned to the districts to nearly 750 in the past three months, said Emanuel, who pledged to add 1,000 officers to the beat patrols during his campaign for mayor.
Read the full Tribune story here: COPS
