Activists ‘disappointed and not surprised` after $181.7M of Cook County`s coronavirus relief funding spent on reimbursing sheriff`s office payroll
(Chicago Tribune Religion News)

Over the past 11 months of the pandemic, Cook County directed more than 40% of its federal stimulus money toward labor costs for the sheriff`s office, drawing alarm from Black activists who have renewed calls to reallocate law enforcement spending since the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.