Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
I could cite thousands of examples from small communities to big cities that show that your are incorrect but I will instead give you a fun anecdote:
my brother got pulled over by a bicycle cop downtown this week. He was contesting but the cop wasn't listening. My brother then used the name of a long time family friend who happens to have made lieutenant in the bike cop's district. The cop responded that if he wanted to play that game he was going to call said officer, who was a partner of the bike cop at one time, and if he was lying, he would be cited for more than the original infraction. A quick call was made and the guy apologetically let my brother go.
But you're looking at it within the context of the existing paradigm. First of all, Chicago has far more officers per capita than most communities. I believe it's about 45 cops per 10,000 residents. I don't think if you broke down Chicago into districts of 10,000 people and their 45 officers had to police the area where those 10,000- and they themselves lived- that there would be a lot of selective enforcement. The cops aren't going to want to live in a crime-infested community. Maybe cops could even be elected to eight years terms, although that obviously adds a political component. Whatever, there has to be a better way than how we're doing it.
Slightly off topic, but the way day to day policing has been done since at least the 70's in this city is a colossal joke, and local politics only makes it worse. I'll simply cite last week's 4 murders at a fast food spot in a rough part of my own neighborhood. I've lived in this area for 45 years and for 35 of them, three local spots(incl. that one) have been the biggest problem and have been largely ignored.
The swarming of an area after something happens has never worked, just like the pricey blue light cameras Daley corruptly put in 25 years ago. Having a constant presence on those three corners
actually works on the 2x a year CPD wants to pose for the news cameras grinning and in formation. Two days later, they've been abandoned and nothing has changed. Actual neighborhood cops know this and try to work at it, but the demands to drive aimlessly up and down streets for show are too pressing, especially with the Hegwisch and Mt. Greenwood cops over represented around here who are afraid of their own shadows and start their days only wanting to go home.
And then take politically provided joke retirement jobs working for Monterrey Security, or "guarding" utility worksites(which are usually no show jobs, trust me). And then kicking back into the Regular Democratic Organization of Cook County. And the FOP.
And lets not pretend that the collar counties aren't guilty of the same with Metra, Tollway and local police/govt workers out there. Just voting on the other side.
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