Two-thirds of the Chicago Police Department's $32 million overtime
budget for 2013 was spent in the first three months of the year, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
An agreement on contract and pension issues has been reached between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the union representing Chicago Police sergeants that includes an annual 2 percent pay raise and pension reform.
Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police union wants a 12 percent pay raise over two years and a $3,000 yearly "cost of living in Chicago" stipend to offset the expense of their requirement to live within city limits.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel encouraged yesterday Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan's deployment of Fruit of Islam members in areas of the
city hit especially hard with violence this year.
The media mostly lionized the Chicago Police Department and Supt. Garry McCarthy for their work during the NATO summit, but the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police is hardly basking in the afterglow.
Chicago police officers have often been the immediate target of NATO
protests, but the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police has its own act of
defiance prior to Sunday's NATO summit.
The Chicago branch of the Fraternal Order of Police is planning
a September 15 march on police headquarters at 3510 S. Michigan Ave.
because of what the FOP called "dangerously low manpower" levels.
