He's decided to emphasize that point by taking it one step further. He's not only not going to fill the vacancies but he's going to cut them from the job rolls:
Despite Daley’s promise to add 75 police officers in 2008, the Chicago Police Department has 329 vacancies and 424 openings for non-sworn police employees. That’s in addition to the 705 officers on medical leave and 625 officers in limited or convalescent duty status.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported this week that the police vacancies would be among 3,000 unfilled jobs eliminated from the mayor’s 2009 budget to erase a $420 million budget shortfall over this year and next.
Yep. Raise taxes. Cut police. That's sure to reduce crime.
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I'm willing to bet that his personal security detail is fully staffed.
Obama has promised to put more police on the streets, so perhaps Daley is holding out for gifts from DC.
Obama has promised a lot. He's an extra-large inflatable Santa.
Course, if the reports, a couple of years ago, were true, about a quater of Chicago cops were "ghost" employees anyway.
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