CLEVELAND -- In a news conference Wednesday morning, the president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association said that the city's policies on police overtime led to the shooting death of a Cleveland police officer last month, NewsChannel5 reported.

Steve Loomis said that the police SWAT team should have been called in the morning of Aug. 31, when Officer Jonathan A.J. Schroeder was killed while serving an arrest warrant for suspect Wilson Santiago.

CPPA President On Schroeder's Death

However, Loomis said that the SWAT team was not dispatched because of Mayor Frank Jackson's and police Chief Mike McGrath's policies concerning overtime. He said that because the city did not want to pay the money, it put Schroeder in a high-risk situation.

He said that budgetary concerns are putting police officers at risk and putting the citizens of Cleveland at risk.

Loomis is calling for a full dialogue and a full investigation into the overtime policies.

He also wrote a letter to Councilman Kevin Conwell, the chairman of the safety commission, saying that changes have to be made, and he wants all council members to look at these policies.