GARY â Gary officers and their union are warning that staffing and recruitment efforts will only get more difficult at the Gary Police Department after the administration vetoed pay raises and the council failed to garner enough votes for an override.Â
The Gary Common Council needed six yes votes to override the mayor s veto, but only five voted in favor. Council members Dwight Williams, Cozey Weatherspoon and Clorius Lay voted against the one-time pay boost, echoing Mayor Jerome Prince s concern that even a 3% one-time raise would be unsustainable in future years.
Gary cops are already among some of the lower paid in Northwest Indiana relative to some of the busier, higher crime departments, said Gary Police Sgt. Greg Wolf, president for Fraternal Order of Police Ben K. Perry Lodge #61.