Chicago has lost 24% of its district patrol officers under the current administration, UPDATED News on 9/1. Two cop suicides.

Update: Two Chicago cops committed suicide today. One was a retiree. If I recall, that's at least 10 suicides so far this year from the Chicago PD

That is how bad it is getting.


This is a very informative article on the dire conditions in the Chicago Police Department...

Staffing of patrol officers is way down and few new recruits are joining...even with relaxed standards.

In late May, after Chicago Police Supt. David Brown publicly denied that some of the city’s police officers were being ordered to work 11 days in a row, we dubbed him the “Lyin’ King” in a story that included CPD’s own scheduling records to show that cops really were being ordered to work that long without a break.

Now, the Chicago Office of the Inspector General has confirmed our reporting. In a new publication, the IG found that more than 1,000 cops had been ordered to work 11 or more consecutive days during April and May alone. That’s due to the department’s recurring cancellation of days off.

On Monday, Brown again wrongly claimed that “five or six” police officers had worked more than ten straight days. But that’s not what the IG report said. In fact, city inspectors said they couldn’t tell how many of the 1,000-plus officers worked 11 or more days in a row because the CPD’s recordkeeping is a mess. The five specific examples they listed in their report were just that—examples.

Read the whole article, including real staffing numbers, here: [link to cwbchicago.com (secure)]

Last Edited by Templar Knight on 09/01/2022 07:07 PM