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Article: Stimulus to pay for police officers $11 million awarded to Milwaukee and Racine
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2009
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More than $11 million in federal stimulus grants will hit
Milwaukee and Racine to pay for police officers, the Obama
administration announced Tuesday.
Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said the funding will give
the department the opportunity to offset the effects of attrition.
"A generation of officers is retiring right now," Flynn said.
"The city certainly has some significant fiscal challenges ahead of
it. The opportunity to get 50 officers at no cost to the city is a
remarkable one indeed and comes at an important moment."
Without that funding, the city might have to lay off 50 new
officers graduating this year from the police academy, Mayor Tom
Barrett said. Barrett, who is wrestling ...