I tend to doubt it. If they bring back 8s that will get the council on their @ss even more. It would be an admission of understaffing, if paying the annual salary of 200 additional officers as O.T. isn't admission enough. They will keep cutting specialized units and eventually the 9th mobile. They will hand off more of their responsibilities to mythical non-existent federal task gang task forces.
I tend to doubt it. If they bring back 8s that will get the council on their @ss even more. It would be an admission of understaffing, if paying the annual salary of 200 additional officers as O.T. isn't admission enough. They will keep cutting specialized units and eventually the 9th mobile. They will hand off more of their responsibilities to mythical non-existent federal task gang task forces.