CHICAGO—Chicago’s police superintendent said on June 29 that he plans to flood the city’s streets with additional officers during the long July 4 weekend in an effort to avoid a repeat of recent weekends that have been particularly bloody and despite pressure to keep officer overtime to a minimum.
“We didn’t do it last weekend and the Memorial Day weekend,” Superintendent David Brown said of the two weekends that ended with a combined total of 111 people being shot, 24 fatally. “This weekend ... we'll have an additional 1,200 cops every day from Thursday through Sunday.”
