Police pensions not 'lush' job benefit

Just a day after the Herald editors publish yet another opinion piece criticizing police pensions, a Chicago police officer was shot and killed in the line of duty. Every day for 27 years, Richard Francis put a badge over his heart and went in harm's way, and for every one of those years he paid a portion of his salary into a pension fund. He will never collect his pension, although his widow will receive a survivor benefit.

I wonder if the editors think her compensation for a dead husband is too much? For the Herald editors to continually harp on what they refer to as "lush" benefits for police officers is not only wrong, it's obscene.

Ken Heerdegen

Grayslake