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Article: DARE program halted Police suspend anti-drug project over dispute on retirement benefits
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 17, 1996
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A dispute over retirement benefits has prompted the Milwaukee
Police Department to temporarily suspend its DARE anti-drug program,
an attorney who represents police officers in pension concerns said.
The department announced Friday in a press release that its Drug
Abuse and Resistance Education program, as well as its GREAT (Gang
Resistance Education And Training) program, was temporarily placed
on hold because the department underwent an "unanticipated loss of
police personnel" because of a recent court decision involving duty
disability retirement benefits.
"That's just plain poor planning on the part of the department,"
said attorney John Fuchs. "These `pension wars' have been going ...