What are the chances that everyone will be up in arms over this? The police and firefighters were just pawns for the political class in August, as usual.
Safety forces unhappy with budgetColeman's city plan adds 50 officers, no firefighters
Mayor Michael B. Coleman's 2010 budget proposal didn't go over well yesterday with police and fire forces, whose campaigning helped win passage of the city's first income-tax increase since the early 1980s.
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