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By Monica Mercer
mmercer@timesfreepress.com
Combative over allegations that the Chattanooga Police Department fired two high-ranking policemen in favor of younger officers, a city attorney on Tuesday repeatedly asked an economist why he never calculated how the former employees would have fared financially had they accepted demotions.
“Why would any reasonable, competent individual voluntarily take a pay cut?” economist and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor Bruce Hutchinson finally joked.