By Police1 Staff
CHICAGO — Chicago police are teaming up with the Cook County Sheriff’s Department to combat violence in the city.
ABC7 reported that Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the partnership will place Cook County deputies in the patrol cars with officers in violent neighborhoods.
“We are going to put a Cook County sheriff’s officer in a squad car with a Chicago police officer so that both entities can come together and help us tackle this crime because there are some things Cook County brings to the table that we just don’t have, and vice versa,” Johnson told the news station. “Like domestic issues they can arrest people for that we generally don’t.”
The partner patrols come after Chicago officers were fired upon six times within two weeks, according to the Chicago Tribune.
ABC7 reported there is no target date set for the program to begin.