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Citing beating of officer, Chicago's top cop says police are 'second-guessing themselves'
Chicago Tribune ^ | Oct. 6, 2016 | Jeremy Gorner and Hal Dardick

Posted on 10/07/2016 4:44:37 AM PDT by Leaning Right

Chicago’s top cop said Thursday one of his officers was seriously beaten at an accident scene because the national focus on police shootings has caused officers to second-guess themselves.

Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the patrol officer told him she did not use her gun to defend herself for fear of a backlash. "She didn’t want her family or the department to go through the scrutiny the next day on national news," he said. *snip*

The suspect smashed the officer's face into the pavement repeatedly until she was unconscious, police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: beating; chicago; cops; police
There is no excuse for a trigger-happy cop, or for a rude or egotistical cop. But as this article shows, there are many sides to every issue.
1 posted on 10/07/2016 4:44:37 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

I want my cops to be brutal and efficient - to the right people.


2 posted on 10/07/2016 4:54:28 AM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: Leaning Right
THIS is the environment Chicago cops have to work in.
3 posted on 10/07/2016 4:54:45 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: Leaning Right
This is what happens when one's every move is second guessed. They can't function without it affecting their behavior. The answer is to work with police and anyone else in a position of authority to weed out the bad ones. It has to be done with support and respect...not second guessing.

I can't believe that there's ANYONE who doesn't get it that the BLM approach can only lead to chaos.

4 posted on 10/07/2016 4:55:21 AM PDT by grania (I'm Deplorable)
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To: Leaning Right

From “Second City Cop” on the incident:

“There you have it - an officer knowing she could legally use deadly force, but consciously choosing great bodily harm - or death - to herself over having to go through the manufactured outrage of a criminal community out or control. And this is a 17-year veteran.

“What kind of service does the “community” think it’s going to get when this is the first thought going through an officer’s head?

“We’ll tell you exactly what they’ll get - nothing. It’s simpler to disengage and clean up the aftermath of a “community” with zero impulse control, zero pride, zero sense of personal responsibility. A “community” that has accounted for 80% of the shootings and homicides this year and nearly 85% over the past decade.”

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com


5 posted on 10/07/2016 5:10:45 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Stosh

My guess is that this violence is a hail mary by the black political power structure in Cook county and Chicago as they were pretty much wiped out and are now declining in influence (”diversity” blacks hit hardest) So yeah if I am a cop in that area they get nothing except a police report and a phony smile.


6 posted on 10/07/2016 5:18:20 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Leaning Right

If you are second guessing your moves, it is time for a career change.

Ferals, if given a chance will kill or maim you without thinking twice. This is proof of that.


7 posted on 10/07/2016 5:19:42 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The real problem is women cops. Flame suit on!


8 posted on 10/07/2016 5:39:28 AM PDT by refermech
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To: refermech

No flame suit needed for the truth.


9 posted on 10/07/2016 5:51:22 AM PDT by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)
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To: Leaning Right

Great, another article from a newsrag that supports the Clinton and Obama Crime families and yet many other news outlets are banned from posting here? I don’t get it?


10 posted on 10/07/2016 6:25:12 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: akalinin; Leaning Right

And we are encouraging disaster. Blacks, a large proportion of them anyway, live in the expectation, and fact, of racial immunity. They are a special, protected category. The slightest offense to them causes the media to erupt, yet nothing they do seems to carry much penalty. Anyone who refers to blacks as niggers will likely lose his job and pension and become unemployable. It doesn’t work in the other direction. When a black man calls for the gang-rape of a white woman (Sarah Palin), specifically by “burliest black men,” nothing happens to him. Feminists do not make so much as a peep.

Obama: “Within the white communities, across the nation, we see the sincerity of law enforcement officers and officials, who in fits and starts are struggling to understand, and are trying to do the right thing.”

Never, ever, a word about racial attacks on whites. He, like everybody in BLM, cannot conceive that any black could ever do anything wrong.

Like any other spoiled children, blacks are coming to believe that they can do anything they choose. In the long run, it may not be a good thing. In the short run, it may not be a good thing. The run, I suspect, is getting shorter.

It is a great mystery why the least productive thirteen percent of the country, the most dependent on welfare, the most criminal, should be permitted to steal, burn, rape, and beat those who behave in accordance with civilized standards. To shout “kill Whitey” while buying groceries with an EBT card, to expect to be taken care of, to get welfare and affirmative action while attacking the caretakers, does not suggest a crushing burden of mental acuity.”


11 posted on 10/07/2016 6:31:23 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Leaning Right

Chalk two lessons here to political correctness, a female cop out by herself is trouble waiting to happen. How many male cops have had to come to their rescue? Second, a female cop out by herself who wont even protect herself is a dead woman walking. And very, very stupid.


12 posted on 10/07/2016 6:57:33 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Neoliberalnot
And we are encouraging disaster. Blacks, a large proportion of them anyway, live in the expectation, and fact, of racial immunity. They are a special, protected category. The slightest offense to them causes the media to erupt, yet nothing they do seems to carry much penalty. Anyone who refers to blacks as niggers will likely lose his job and pension and become unemployable. It doesn’t work in the other direction. When a black man calls for the gang-rape of a white woman (Sarah Palin), specifically by “burliest black men,” nothing happens to him. Feminists do not make so much as a peep.

Obama: “Within the white communities, across the nation, we see the sincerity of law enforcement officers and officials, who in fits and starts are struggling to understand, and are trying to do the right thing.”

Never, ever, a word about racial attacks on whites. He, like everybody in BLM, cannot conceive that any black could ever do anything wrong.

Like any other spoiled children, blacks are coming to believe that they can do anything they choose. In the long run, it may not be a good thing. In the short run, it may not be a good thing. The run, I suspect, is getting shorter.

It is a great mystery why the least productive thirteen percent of the country, the most dependent on welfare, the most criminal, should be permitted to steal, burn, rape, and beat those who behave in accordance with civilized standards. To shout “kill Whitey” while buying groceries with an EBT card, to expect to be taken care of, to get welfare and affirmative action while attacking the caretakers, does not suggest a crushing burden of mental acuity.”


I agree. BTW, an excellent post with clarity, brevity and eloquence.
13 posted on 10/07/2016 7:40:39 AM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: refermech

.....a street cop I know with 30 years experience supports women in the department.

What he does not support is the PC argument that women are equal to ALL tasks. He says: 1. In an all out fight situation women cops are game but they internally cannot conquer their fear and are hesitant which gets them hurt as well as their partner. 2. They simply do not have the size and physical strength for an all out fight and too often are left with the shoot or get beat up option.

This is what happened to this woman. I fear her injuries are MUCH worse than the lib media will ever report.


14 posted on 10/07/2016 8:00:55 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: akalinin

I didn’t mean to mislead. I can’t take credit for this quote from Fred Reed. His articles appear on a site that is banned from posting here. Fred is our friend in most cases. It is a mystery that sites friendly to our cause are banned while those hostile to all things we represent here at FR are openly accepted.


15 posted on 10/07/2016 8:08:53 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: akalinin

I could never be a cop as I would be coming into the station every few hours for more ammunition.....


16 posted on 10/07/2016 10:41:12 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Stosh

They chant black lives matter, yet kill hundreds of their fellow blacks each year. They want bad cops gone, but see no problem when one of their own nearly beats a cop to death for no reason.

Almost every “unarmed” “victim” of a police shooting they have protested had done something to legally justify the use of deadly force. I see no difference between these communities in the US and 3rd world hell holes. They both want instant street justice that fits their narrative.

It is time for the rank and file to simply stop getting involved in a quagmire and only respond to calls. No more patrols to try to stop crime when it will get you injured or killed and called racist. Just come in, take pictures, collect evidence, write up a report and leave. They won’t police their own, why should someone else?


17 posted on 10/07/2016 10:51:01 AM PDT by matt04
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