Rahm Emanuel falls short on promised police, fire disability fixes

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

In the wake of revelations about abuses in the city of Chicago’s fire and police disability programs, Mayor Rahm Emanuel promised reforms.

But two and a half years later, little has come of those promises, a Chicago Sun-Times examination has found.

Some injured cops, firefighters and paramedics have returned to duty or retired since Emanuel vowed to crack down on abuses in the wake of a Sun-Times investigation that found some of them were collecting tax-free disability checks even as they had gotten other jobs.

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