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How Chicago’s financing of police-misconduct payouts adds hundreds of millions to the tab

JULY 10, 2018 | by Steve Daniels | CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS

 “Chicago and far larger New York are the two U.S. cities that pay the most to settle complaints about cops. But when you add our habit of using debt to cover the cost—lately, at punishing interest rates due to our pitiful credit rating—there's little doubt Chicago holds the dubious distinction as the nation's top spender on police misconduct.”

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