Beale "Shares Some Pain"

This must be what those "revruns" meant when they said they were going to bring some suffering to other neighborhoods - they already had Beale in their pockets:

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel was urged Wednesday to permanently reassign police officers to gang-ravaged South Side and West Side districts instead of taking the political path of least resistance and assigning 600 additional officers only temporarily.
  
  “We cannot continue to just move things around temporarily to get us past the weekend. We need a bold approach to make the entire city safe by putting `em where they’re needed and not where they’re wanted,” said Far South Side Ald. Anthony Beale (9th), former chairman of the City Council’s Police Committee.
  
  “You go downtown and you still see an officer on every corner. You see `em on the Riverwalk. If you go into the community, you don’t have that same presence. We need to make this entire city safe and move those resources around from one end to the other.”
  
  Beale said the reallocation Police Supt. Eddie Johnson promised two years ago — but failed to deliver — can be accomplished without putting North Side police districts at risk.

Um, no, it can't. We've all seen what happens when you pull officers out of so-called "safe" neighborhoods. Property crime increases, in some cases exponentially. Criminals aren't completely stupid - they go to where the police aren't and the pickings aren't as slim.

Some aldermen are saying no way:

• Among those already screaming is Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41st), whose Far Northwest Side ward also includes the Jefferson Park District. He said a permanent reallocation of officers will occur “over my dead body.”
  
  “The 16th District is the largest district with the least amount of police officers. Just because we don’t have homicides and shootings doesn’t mean we’re not escalating in other crimes,” Napolitano said.
  
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  North Side Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) has been on the warpath about a drop in police manpower in a Town Hall District plagued by robberies and burglaries that runs contrary to a promise made in exchange for his vote for the largest property tax increase in Chicago history.
  
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  Northwest Side Ald. Nick Sposato (38th) said he, too, would not tolerate a reduction in officers.

It's time to institute the "Prickwrinkle - Foxxx - ACLU" policing strategy. We've been hearing for years now that too many black and brown people are in jail and that police dis-proportionally stop too many black people (based on zero actual evidence.)

These mopes believe that all police work should be reflective of the percentages of the population. That means traffic stops should be approximately one-third, black, one-third white and one third brown, with appropriate fractions of Asians and Hawaiians. Same thing with arrests and jail populations. Even police manpower should be reflective of the city - so says Rahm.

Therefore, one third of police manpower should be in black areas, one third in white neighborhoods and one third in assorted Hispanic neighborhoods. Chinatown can have three foot men and we can hire a part time Hawaiian for the weekends. And as the black middle class flees and the Hispanic population rises, the mayor can adjust the percentages accordingly.

Time to start making the morons live by the rules they create.