As some of you may have already heard, Ald. Kovac and other members of the Finance and Personnel Committee are recommending several cuts to the Milwaukee Police Dept. including drastically reducing the number of new recruits that the Mayor has put forth in the 2015 Budget. According to the e-notify that went out from the Mayors office today: The Committee voted to cut 12 police recruits from this December’s class. If the full Common Council approves this amendment, there will be 12 fewer beat and bicycle patrol officers on our streets than I budgeted for the summer, when the demand on police resources is greatest. The Committee also voted to cut $1.2 million in police overtime. This cut would eliminate the deployment of 15 full-time-equivalent police officers in 2015. Combined, the two amendments would take 27 officers off our streets! I would encourage all of you to contact the members of the Common Council and let them know that this is NOT what the citizens of our City want! Hamilton, Ashanti ; Davis Sr., Joe ; Kovac, Nik ; Bauman, Robert ; Bohl, James ; Coggs, Milele ; Wade, Willie ; Donovan, Robert ; Puente, Robert ; Murphy, Michael (Alderman) ; Dudzik, Joseph ; Perez, Jose ; Witkowski, Terry ; Zielinski, Tony ; Stamper II, Russell
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:16:42 +0000
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