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Chicago’s Police Overtime Problem

Chicago’s Police Overtime Problem

FromReset with Sasha-Ann Simons


Chicago’s Police Overtime Problem

FromReset with Sasha-Ann Simons

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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Sep 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Mayor Lightfoot is trying to plug a Grand Canyon-sized budget hole. It’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $860 million. Every penny counts. So when she found out that the Chicago Police Department dished out nearly $70 million in overtime-for just the first 6 months of 2019-she called in the superintendent to find out what was going on. Sun Times reporter Fran Spielman takes us through the past, present, and future of the city’s police overtime.Plus Lynn Scarlett, Vice President of Policy and Government Relations at the Nature Conservancy, talks about the effect of the Trump administration’s many environmental rollbacks.
Released:
Sep 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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