Police departments across the country are struggling to attract new officers and keep the ones they already have.
The Chicago Police Department is no different. They are roughly 1,100 officers short, and are now going to great lengths to bring in new officers.
Some 9,000 Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton transition every year from the service to civilian life. The Chicago Police Department is banking on some of them to go from serving our country to serving our city. Potential recruits at Camp Pendleton were offered the chance to take the CPD entrance exam, get drug-tested, get fingerprinted, and answer a mandatory questionnaire over a period of a couple of days. The process used to take several months.
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