By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) Chicago will be hiring hundreds of new cops in the coming two years and Mayor Emanuel is sounding sympathetic to lowering the standards to apply.
There’s a proposal to let young men and women who’ve had a brush with the law, enforce the law, as cops. Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn’t saying no.
“I want to take a look at the general idea that if somebody did something when they were 16 or 17, that doesn’t become an entire impossibIlity – as long as it’s not serious – to joining a police department,” says Mayor Emanuel.
The mayor and the aldermen are going slow on this because it could become one of those law & order issues that so often backfire on politicians.
@2016 WLS-AM News
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