Chicago Police Overtime On Pace For $100 Million Price Tag

Police Overtime On Pace For $100 Million Price Tag
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 28: A police car is parked outside the headquarters of the Chicago Police Department in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. The recession is stinging in President-elect Barack Obama?s hometown, where the Chicago Police Department is slowing hiring even as murders increase. Murders in Chicago rose 16 percent in the first 10 months of the year. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 28: A police car is parked outside the headquarters of the Chicago Police Department in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. The recession is stinging in President-elect Barack Obama?s hometown, where the Chicago Police Department is slowing hiring even as murders increase. Murders in Chicago rose 16 percent in the first 10 months of the year. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ever since February 2012, when it became clear that Chicago had an unusually high murder rate Chicago Police Officers began working under an overtime fueled crime-fighting strategy.

As many as 400 officers each night have been saturating high crime areas. Those officer have been drawing time and a half pay for their nightly service.

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