Posted on 04/16/2020 9:07:34 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Chicago Tribune logo Chicago police setting up checkpoints to remind people of stay-at-home order and provide a presence in areas of violence Chicago police are setting up checkpoints throughout the city both to remind people about the statewide stay-at-home order during the coronavirus outbeak and to “show a strong police presence” in areas hit by violence
A department memo obtained by the Tribune calls them “seatbelt safety and informational” checkpoints, and adds that the “goal of this mission is to engage the community in a positive and informative manner while providing a visible police presence in areas affected by violence."
Each of the city’s 22 patrol districts is to have one checkpoint each day, staffed by a supervisor and an unspecified number of officers, according to the memo.
Any officer “interacting with any occupants of a vehicle will don a mask and gloves,” according to the memo. Each checkpoint will last up to an hour.
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Happiness Patrol?
Translation: We need more income
It ain’t happening in black areas.
That would be racist.
Gendarmes aren’t free.
NY needs more money for tracing investigators
If they think there’s violence now, wait until Illinois drags its feet getting back into business....same for some other Dem-run states...
Actually it’s happening in a black area where a certain police commander just happens to own an apartment building.
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They’re enacting a police state.
This is a coup.
Why not do the same and make sure minority yoots are not carrying the dangerous Ruger-09 virus?
One - put up checkpoints so they can’t leave and go anywhere else.
Two - what’s the murder rate been?
It should be Felony Reckless Endangerment for any Police Officer to initiate contact with any Citizen not suspected of committing a Felony
“With 19 dead, 47 more wounded by gunfire, Chicago sees most violent 5-day span of 2020”
I wonder if drug-smuggling has been affected at all by all of these “cowering in place” orders? Obviously criminals won’t obey such laws as they obey no laws, but i wonder if transportation operations are more exposed or a lot of their mules are staying low for fear of infection ...
Wait, so people are still outside putting bullets in other people during a pandemic?
“Ihre Papiere, bitte.”
I suggest each of keep o copy of this handy...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
good way to spread the virus
Just practicing for the “new democrat normal”.
What’s the plan dude?
City living without City Life ....
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