{"id":6242,"date":"2026-10-22T01:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/police-board-president-defends-chief-tracys-raise\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:18:36","slug":"police-board-president-defends-chief-tracys-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/police-board-president-defends-chief-tracys-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Board President Defends Chief Tracy&#8217;s Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 22, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners President Chris Saracino is defending the board\u2019s controversial decision to substantially increase Police Chief Robert Tracy\u2018s salary, arguing that the agreement was necessary to retain experienced leadership at a time when the city has reported significant reductions in violent crime. The defense comes amid criticism from St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer and the St. Louis Police Officers\u2019 Association, both of which have questioned the cost, timing, and approval process surrounding Tracy\u2019s new employment agreement. On Wednesday, October 21, Saracino provided additional details about the board\u2019s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/police-board-president-defends-chief-tracys-raise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 22, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners President Chris Saracino is defending the board\u2019s controversial decision to substantially increase Police Chief Robert Tracy\u2018s salary, arguing that the agreement was necessary to retain experienced&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}