THE WATCHDOGS: Rahm’s police hiring will barely make up for drop

Even if Mayor Rahm Emanuel manages to add nearly 1,000 cops in the next couple years, his promised surge of new hires would barely make up for the decline in the Chicago Police Department’s ranks on his watch. There were 6,244 rank-and-file police officers working the city’s 22 police districts as of Oct. 19, records obtained […]