CPD already burns through 2/3 of OT budget for year

Combating hot spots of violence, the Chicago Police Department has already burned through two-thirds of its 2013 overtime budget in the first three months of the year — raising questions about how much will be left to handle the traditional summer crime wave. Some of the $21 million overtime bill went to officers working in “Operation Impact.” In February, 200 officers a day started working overtime in the 20 most violent zones of the city as part of the program. The department doubled Operation Impact to 400 officers a day on March 1. But the $21 million overtime bill doesn’t

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  A Chicago man who sources say was wanted in connection with the murder of an FBI informant in the south suburbs last month has been arrested after a manhunt in Wisconsin. Paris Poe, 33, was arrested by a SWAT team on a Madison highway shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday, following a day-long search that saw several schools locked down. Law enforcement sources told the Sun-Times the murder investigators want to talk to Poe about is that of 27-year-old Keith Daniels, an alleged federal informant killed outside his Dolton home on the evening of April 14.
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