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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Tiny Dancer cannot be recalled and doesn’t have another election for years. Chicago voters can live with their votes.
He’s going to solve the problem by issuing cops a single shot .22 cal pistol that fires only a .22 short cartridge.
My Father use to have a saying that went,,,
"Like a Cat trying to cover up $&it on a Hot Tin Roof".
Yeah. Police brutality. THATS the problem in Chicago,
Words. Just words.
I’ll pull back the PO-lice and replace PO-lice brutality with thug and gang brutality.
In a year you’ll be begging for a police state!
How's about Twinkle Toes get his arms around black brutality, before he cracks down on the less-common "microaggressions" of the cops on Obama's People?
Take on the big challenge first, Rahm.
Go for it.
What the hell is wrong with Chicago’s black folk?
Why would they vote for this disgusting fool Rham?
He isn’t going to do squat for them.
IOW - “This is my kingdom and I don’t want the Feds/DOJ, etc, coming in and forcing anything on me - that’s for loser cities”....
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