City of Chicago to receive $3.125 million to help hire 25 officers focused on community policing
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 5, 2016. Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced that the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program has awarded the City of Chicago $3,125,000 in funding to hire twenty-five community police officers. Consistent with past years, Chicago was awarded the COPS grant in support of the Chicago Police Department’s community policing capacity and crime prevention…
