Blame everybody but yourself.....

There should be a study of how many arrests are made compared to how many calls for service are made. The favorite phrase of Chicago Police Officers is, "let's let them kill each other." More garbage about McCarthy.

London Fog

Someone doesn't want Garry Poppins to get the England job:

• Hello London? Chicago calling.
  
  Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy is on the short list to become the next boss of greater London’s Metropolitan Police Service, if we here at our city’s tabloid are to believe recent reports in one of the U.K.’s scrappy daily newspapers.
  
  On our side of the pond, the general response to the stories in The Sun can be summed up like this:
  
  Have you gone bloody mad?!

The author then lists a lot of McCompost's failures and shortcomings, some political, some police related, some completely out of his control. They do point out that the last two jobs McStreetlight had led to federal "oversight" of the Departments he ran - not a very good record.

But we can't say it's a totally unfair report.

New Superintendent

Here is an idea: why not sew together a white male, a black male, a Latino and a female to combine as one new super superintendent, that should satisfy everyone!

Thirty Nine Candidates

And of course, the Sun Times has to publish the most important qualification right up front in the headline:

• 39 candidates, most of them black, apply to be next police supt.

The story:

• Thirty-nine candidates, many with big-city policing experience, will vie for the right to replace fired Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy.
  
  The furor over the Laquan McDonald shooting video that triggered a federal civil-rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department appears to have slightly dampened the interest in the $260,004-a-year job.

Whoop-de-do. We'll just say for the record that we don't give two shits what color the Superintendent is. Never have, never will.

We would certainly prefer that he be from the Chicago Police Department, seeing as how the last two outsiders have driven the CPD to this point, but we understand that the "merit" system has left the entire Department bereft of anything resembling competent leadership. We can't think of a single boss that hasn't made one or more promotional ranks via the "meri-clout-orious" process, meaning that somewhere along the way, they owe someone.

We also understand that whomever ends up in the top spot is going to be a puppet of Rahm as he fights for his political life. They are going to be, first and foremost, a tool. Hopefully, Rahm has been practicing with the ventriloquist dummy we sent over last year so that when the superintendent's mouth moves, you don't see Rahm's lips moving along with the script.

We saw this list in the comment section:

• "Chicago Tonight" has learned of a list of candidates from within the CPD, put together by African-American aldermen, clergy members and community leaders. They include:
  
  • Ernest Brown, chief of Cook County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
  • Eddie Johnson, chief of patrol
  • Fred Waller, deputy chief
  • Eric Washington, head of Community Policing
  • Eugene Williams, head of the Bureau of Administration

We certainly hope that the media does it's homework for once and disqualifies the first name on that list. It isn't too difficult. His name is all over any number of lawsuits and has appeared prominently in a number of posts here and elsewhere.

The smart money is on Gene Williams right now.

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