Extra Extra: There Are Fewer Beat Cops On Chicago's Streets
By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 7, 2014 12:00AM
- The ranks of beat cops is dwindling despite Chicago Police attempts to hire more. [Tribune]
- If you think Chicago’s streets aren’t being salted, some suburbs are crying even more foul. [Tribune]
- Former Police Supt. Phil Cline and other police officers told special prosecutor Dan Webb they didn’t charge a friend of Richard Vanecko with obstruction of justice in the David Koschman case because it’s not illegal to lie to police. (That must be Daley family dispensation or something.) [Sun-Times]
- The city is set to fill its 100,000th pothole this winter. [WGN TV]
- Despite the snow, wind and cold, some lovers of hate chicken Chick-fil-A are camping out to win free chicken from a store opening tomorrow in Elmhurst. First 100 people get free chicken, currently 20 camping. [NBC Chicago]
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