The city is short more than 1,400 officers, as hiring can barely keep pace with departures.
about 1,000 officers worked 11 consecutive days or more between April and May of this year. The report did not examine officer hours before that time period.that would ensure officers will have no more than one requested day off canceled a week, except during holidays.."Tired, emotionally wrought officers is not good for them, not good for their families, and not good, frankly, for the community members that they're serving.
"We have hired approximately five applicants from the city of Chicago out of that pool," he said."They're grateful to be able to plan their life and have days off. This is just my opinion as a supervisor in our department. I think it's critical to an officer's or any employee's well-being.
"I want some stakeholder – the mayor, the police department, the police union – to do a staffing study," said Tracy Siska, executive director of the Chicago Justice Project, a nonprofit organization that advocates for changes in justice policy with data."We don't know if we need more than that number or less.", which was done by Alexander Weiss, the former director of the Center for Public Safety at Northwestern University.
Siska shares company with Chicago Inspector General Deborah Witzburg, whose office conducted the canceled days off report.
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