Chicago is in the midst of a violent crime wave, but the city still sent 50 police officers to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. Everyone from local community leaders to the police union finds the decision bizarre.
“I would love to know the logic behind that decision to send them there given all that is happening here in Chicago,” the Rev. Ira Acree of the Greater St. John Bible Church in Chicago told ABC News Monday.
“It’s a state of emergency here in Chicago,” Rev. Acree told the Wall Street Journal last week.
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“We had two homicides and dozens of shootings this weekend, and we’re sending offices out of the city?” said Pat Camden, a spokesperson for the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police. “I think the average person would shake his head over that.”
Emanuel’s solutions to the crime wave have, so far, been to ask the gangsters to stay away from kids, and to allow the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam’s paramilitary Fruit of Islam to patrol the city’s streets.
Scuttlebutt about the Fruit of Islam is that many of them are hardcore criminals recruited from the US prison system. Having them fight crime might be akin to having foxes guard henhouses.
“policy union”
Police union?
The nation of islum is probably made up of more than 70% ‘prison conversions’….would love to see the true numbers on that. Of course, we cannot trust Calypso Louie’s numbers, but I bet the true numbers are pretty high…a collection of convicts and con artists; a match made in heaven.
If the cops they send are some desk jockeys, then no harm. Now 50 street cops, during this summer of violence, that would be a crime.
Not that I expcet Rahm to recognize real crime anyway.
Marco73: The CPD is severely undermanned and becoming overwhelmed by the volume of crime. (The clearance rate on homicides is down to 24%.) The officers sent to the DNC were from Patrol, not “inside workers”.
Yes, real crime. BTW, why wouldn’t you expect the Tiny Dancer (as the cops call him) to “recognize real crime”? Given his years in the Clinton White House, at Freddie Mac, as a Democrat US Representative, and in the Obama White House, he should be very familiar with crime.