Since the pandemic, overtime is being used more so to plug staffing shortages as officers retired and resigned in record numbers in Chicago and across the country.
, the Police Department is canceling days off for officers for the Fourth of July – again.
"I want to emphasize right now that resources in our neighborhoods would not be affected by large events happening downtown and elsewhere," he said at a news conference on Wednesday."Residents will see an increased presence with more officers on foot patrols and bike patrols in our downtown areas." "We have to play the cards that we're dealt right now, and we're dealt a short hand. We simply don't have enough patrol officers on the ground," said Ald. Brian Hopkins ,"so the ones that we do have, we have to rely on them to work extra watch and have days off canceled, unfortunately."
Meanwhile, police overtime data show focusing in specifically on the month of July, there were record highs for overtime last year – with 237,752 hours of overtime worked by officers. "We're looking at that very closely. We also have the command staff and supervisors out there walking the line; making sure the officers are OK, they're hydrated," Supt. Waller said."We have plans in place where the officers won't work a certain amount of days in a row.""The concerns are very much real," said Ald. Hopkins, chair of the City Council Public Safety Committee.
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