Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, March 21, 2016.
Chicago’s police misconduct bill is disturbing amid financial crisis
Chicago has been plagued by serious debt and poor credit ratings over the past few years, and the enormous sum of $662 million that the city has had to pay out for police misconduct since 2004 hasn’t helped the situation. How did it get to this point? “If you were seen going after police, you were seen as being for crime,” alderman Howard Brookins Jr. told the Associated Press. “Nothing happened to the police officers even after they got a big judgment against them, so it appeared to be like Monopoly money.” [Associated Press via ABC News]
