- "Daley, Weis and the 'meri-clout-orious' Command Staff have done something unheard of in the history of the Chicago Police Department. They've taken a diverse group of people who, for the most part, want to make life better for hundreds of thousands of citizens, and just about completely beaten the desire to serve out of each and every one of them. . . . Manpower? Down. Tickets? Down. Arrests? Down. Revenue? Down. Guns? Down. Search Warrants? Down. Crime? Up—and up double digits with no end in sight."
Second City Cop blog, July 11, 2008
What's this? Routine kvetching on the Web blog that Chicago cops most often read?
Or does the current avalanche of often detailed complaints from officers about inept management—poor leadership within the department but also from politicians at City Hall—suggest that Chicago has serious policing problems? That, for whatever reason, the CPD is less effective at fighting crime than it has been in recent years?
The Department is rotting from the head down - and by "head" we mean City Hall. The Department is merely reflective of the constant political corruption pouring out of Chicago, Cook and Illinois politics.
Go read the entire editorial. It brings up some valid points. However, it missed a big one:
Go read the entire editorial. It brings up some valid points. However, it missed a big one:
- Kvetching, whether from blogging cops or preening aldermen, won't accomplish anything.
Actually, blogging cops have accomplished something that hasn't been done in years - uniting a large segment of the population into realizing there is a problem, something a Free Press should have been doing all the years they were eating up the crap politicians were serving.
Are you in for the long fight Tribune Editorial Staff?
Are you in for the long fight Tribune Editorial Staff?
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