Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to hire 500 new cops, promote hundreds to sergeant and detective - Which won't even make a dent in the amount of police officers they are short....

Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to hire 500 additional police officers, promote hundreds of cops to sergeant and detective, and spend more on programs that help youth growing up in some of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, according to several sources familiar with the proposal.

Details of the mayor's blueprint began to emerge Tuesday night in advance of Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson's expected announcement Wednesday of the hiring portion of the plan.

For more than two weeks, one of the questions about Emanuel's policing push has been whether he will hire to keep up with officer retirements and departures or increase the size of the force. Sources said the 500 officers would be above the level of attrition.

On top of the hires, Johnson is expected to announce an effort to beef up the number of sergeants and detectives in the department by promoting officers from within, sources said. The goal, they said, then would be to replace those promoted officers with new hires.

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