The Elgin City Council supported a recommendation by the community task force on policing to beef up the number of officers on patrol. The main driver is rampant overtime in the department, which is both a monetary and a stress consideration.
Six reforms suggested by Elgin s community task force on policing, including allowing people with high school diplomas or GED to take the police entrance exam, will become official police policy.
After more than two decades needed to purchase and clean up a 34-acre site along North Grove Avenue and the east bank of the Fox River, blank slate redevelopment ready to begin.
A Center for Policing Equity study found that 36% of all use-of-force cases in Elgin over the five-year period involved Blacks whereas an analysis by Northern Illinois University showed race was not a factor when force was showed or used.