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Rahm Emanuel op-ed: I own the problem of police brutality, and I'll fix it
chicagotribune.com ^ | Dec. 4, 2015 | Rahm Emanuel

Posted on 12/05/2015 1:37:35 PM PST by PROCON

Chicago is facing a defining moment on the issues of crime and policing and the even larger issues of truth and justice. To meet this moment, we need to conduct a painful but honest reckoning of what went wrong — not just in one instance, but over decades. Then we need to determine what to do differently to ensure that incidents like this don’t happen again.

We cannot afford to have any resident of our city living in fear of the police and distrusting their words and actions. And we cannot allow the crimes of a small number of officers to taint the good work of the vast majority who put their lives on the line every day.

What happened last October 2014 on South Pulaski Road should never have happened. Systems should have been in place to prevent it. Supervision and leadership at every level of the police department and the oversight agencies should have come into play.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; illinois; murders; police; rahmemanuel
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CYA time, huh Rahm?

How about Chiraq's 471 murders to date and counting?

Are they the Police's fault too?

Liberal POS

*spit*

1 posted on 12/05/2015 1:37:35 PM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Twinkle Toes OWNZ Chicago’s South Side Utopian Status.


2 posted on 12/05/2015 1:39:04 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: PROCON

Him and his “take your stuff away to the alley”. He’ll end up not only owning this, but owning it to the full.


3 posted on 12/05/2015 1:40:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: PROCON

Twinkle Toes P0WNZ Chicago’s South Side Utopian Status.


4 posted on 12/05/2015 1:40:37 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: PROCON

Rahm Can Fix-it. (since Jeb! isn’t using the slogan).
Only question: How do you fix things just by ‘Rahming’ them?


5 posted on 12/05/2015 1:42:11 PM PST by lee martell
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To: PROCON

The ruler of hell on Earth is going to fix it?


6 posted on 12/05/2015 1:42:49 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: PROCON

Yes, blaming the police force for isolated case is cowardly. But the lede of this story should be how he kept the video from being publicized for over a year because of an election.


7 posted on 12/05/2015 1:43:22 PM PST by madameguinot
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To: madameguinot

You nailed it. And no one in the lapdog local media will call him on it.


8 posted on 12/05/2015 1:44:56 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: PROCON

“i own it” one of those phrases i loathe. also “not on my watch” and “i’m from the government, i’m here to help you.”


9 posted on 12/05/2015 1:45:27 PM PST by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: madameguinot
Yup, kind of makes one think of......wait for it......BENGHAZI and 0bama/Hillary
10 posted on 12/05/2015 1:45:52 PM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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This MFer hasn’t ever “owned” anything in his life! And just how is he going to fix the problem? Hire another anti-2A Police Commissioner from another failed Eastern RAT-Run city? Get rid of rampant PE union corruption? Chicago would be infinitely safer tomorrow if they simply haded out guns to everyone and let the “natural selection process” run to conclusion.


11 posted on 12/05/2015 1:46:06 PM PST by vette6387
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To: PROCON

He may want to focus on the black on black murders every weekend in Chicago.


12 posted on 12/05/2015 1:46:38 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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Twenty Six
Days Until the next
FReepathon!


GIT-R-DONE


13 posted on 12/05/2015 1:47:01 PM PST by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: PROCON

The issue is your complicity Rahm.
You turned a blind eye for years.


14 posted on 12/05/2015 1:49:52 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: lee martell
Only question: How do you fix things just by ‘Rahming’ them?

Creative semantics and cooked statistics. By the time they're done re-defining "police brutality" and tinkering with the reports they'll have the number of reported incidents reduced by half in no time.

15 posted on 12/05/2015 1:50:31 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: PROCON

The little ballet dancer has always been a drama queen. There are no real men in the Democrat Party, only nancy-boys.


16 posted on 12/05/2015 1:51:23 PM PST by txrefugee
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Nazi Germany proved that Nancy-boys can be very, very deadly.


17 posted on 12/05/2015 1:53:03 PM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: PROCON

He is going to fix it just like Baltimore did.


18 posted on 12/05/2015 1:55:22 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: PROCON
Rahm Emanuel op-ed: I own the problem of police brutality, political corruption
19 posted on 12/05/2015 1:57:44 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: PROCON

Compare police brutal nums versus black on black murders in chicago.

No, the truth will be clear then....


20 posted on 12/05/2015 2:04:18 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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