Other great savings could be realized from not enforcing laws like bank robberies, thefts, shop-lifting, shootings that don’t result in death, rapes, pedophilia, grand theft auto...
Go Rham!
Looks like Rahm is trying to make Chicago like Detroit.
This is nothing but a scam to take us down the road to legalization (aka, Taxation) of ALL now-illegal drugs.
Except for one thing....
The whole Chicago and probably the whole State of Indiana is an Organized Crime Syndicate..
A political machine that rivals the one in NYC and NYState.. not to speak of New Jersey..
The criminals are the politicians like the KGB was in Russia..
Well, some places give out free needles to drug addled heroin addicts, so what’s the problem with a little Mary Jane? In the meantime prepare to show your drivers license to some store clerk if buy over the counter cough syrup or sinus medicine.
Daley tried a similar maneuver a few years back, but then he backed off on it.
The practical reality is, they might as well do this, because if you are arrested for possessing these small amounts in Chicago, the case is almost always dropped when it gets to court. Most of the time, the police won’t arrest you, and don’t even bother to show up to testify if you are arrested, because they know the County judges routinely dismiss them. There is just no room in the jail system here to absorb the thousands of inmates enforcing the law would create. At least by making it an administrative matter, they will boost revenue in this fiscally disfunctional city.
fta... “Each case needed four officers to arrest and transport offenders, ...”
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Is this another example of why labor unions for government employees should be dissolved?
Why would it necessitate four LEOs to haul in a teenager with a little doobie in his pocket, unless it was something demanded by the union thugs?