Chicago Public Schools to Pay Police $13 Million for Security
The Chicago Police Department would receive $13 million annually in compensation for the 152 full-time police officers currently assigned to the Chicago Public School District’s 106 high schools, under an agreement introduced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, this marks an increase from the $8 million CPS had been paying up to 2011, and a reduction from the amount that Emanuel imposed when he took office. At that point, he refused a previously negotiated 4-percent raise for teachers in order to retroactively pay the Chicago Police Department for their school security services. The $8 million per year schools had been paying was actually costing the CPD around $25 million per year.