1,200 extra Chicago cops to be deployed over July 4 weekend
(World News USA)

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police superintendent said Monday 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 particularly bloody recent weekends 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.” Brown took over as superintendent during the coronavirus pandemic, when there was a furious effort to release as...