Chicago to pay $3.1 million to 47 immigrants denied cop jobs

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Chicago taxpayers will spend $3.1 million to compensate 47 immigrants seeking to become police officers who were denied that chance because of a discriminatory rule that required applicants to have lived in the United States for the previous 10 years.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice, now conducting a civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department, filed a lawsuit against the city that stems from unrelated hiring abuses that occurred as long as a decade ago.

In addition to the controversial requirement that all city employees live in Chicago, the Police Department had a “continuous residence requirement.” It mandated that all police hopefuls have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years before becoming Chicago Police officers.

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