Tasers have caused problems, but they do “less harm” than real bullets, Mayor Daley said today, defending the Chicago Police Department’s decision to dramatically expand the use of “stun guns.”
Daley said the decision to more than double the use of Tasers — and place one in every squad car — was designed to minimize injury and reduce liability caused by police shootings.
Taser International’s registered lobbyist is former Chicago Police Supt. Terry Hillard. The company’s $5 million contract runs through 2011.
Gov. Quinn wants to impose $503 million in cuts, affecting the current state work force and future retirees. The governor wants to save:
• $203 million by seeking employee furloughs, increasing how much state employees pay toward their health insurance and imposing travel restrictions.
• $300 million in changes to the pensions offered to state employees, though Quinn's administration declined to offer specific details about how this figure was compiled. Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) expressed support Wednesday for boosting the state's standard retirement age of 60 and capping pension payouts.
- Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.
Administrators say the closures are necessary to keep the district from plowing through what little is left of the $2 billion it received as part of a groundbreaking desegregation case. The Kansas City school board narrowly approved the plan to close 29 out of 61 schools Wednesday night at a meeting packed with angry parents. The schools will close at the end of the school year.
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