Over the past 11 months of the pandemic, Cook County directed more than 40% of its federal stimulus money toward labor costs for the sheriff’s office, drawing alarm from Black activists who have renewed calls to reallocate law enforcement spending since the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.
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