[![Anita Gricar, a longtime resident of Versailles, Pa., talks about the loss of the local police department while standing outside the municipal building on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Her small town, population 1,700, disbanded its three-member police force. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)][1]][2]AP - As hundreds of jobs in Chicago's police department go unfilled, officers who once patrolled the streets with partners are riding alone in what some cops bitterly call "rolling coffins."

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