Protesters were outside St. Louis City Hall Thursday, raising questions about the new police chief and how he's paid.
Protester John Chasnoff says it's not right that Chief Robert Tracy is getting $100,000 a year of his $275,000 salary funded by the St. Louis Police Foundation, "he's going to try for those three years to please the people that are paying him that money, and so we don't know what he's going to do behind the scenes to make sure they renew that money, but that's a huge conflict of interest for the Chief of Police to be beholden to the corporations in the city."
Chief Tracy has said that he's not beholden to the Foundation, because it was a deal they made with the city not with him personally.
Tracy's contract with the foundation calls for him to hold regular public meetings in each ward of the city, and with the rank and file officers and staff.
