Well, not really, but we liked the way the headline looked. We'd pay to see that actually happen. In the meantime:
- The Fraternal Order of Police filed a legal motion Thursday with the ultimate goal of dismissing an ACLU lawsuit that accused the city of Chicago of depriving some inner-city neighborhoods of adequate police protection.
If a judge grants the union’s motion to intervene, the FOP plans to initially ask that the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP be disqualified from assisting the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois and, ultimately, that the case be dismissed.
“It’s horrible public policy if a single chancery judge is allowed to determine how the police department operates in the field and how they’re made up,” FOP lawyer Paul Geiger said. “That’s madness. It would be unlike any other big city in the United States.”
If Shortshanks or his predecessors had actually redrawn the beats and districts semi-regularly according to crime trends and population shifts, we wouldn't be having the discussion today.
But the truly amazing part of this lawsuit is that the ACLU has it all wrong. Where was SOS deployed? Mobile Strike Force operated where? Targeted Response? The "Jump Out" boys? Housing? Every large citywide unit, regardless of crime patterns, spent the majority of its time in the communities the ACLU insists are under-served.
But the truly amazing part of this lawsuit is that the ACLU has it all wrong. Where was SOS deployed? Mobile Strike Force operated where? Targeted Response? The "Jump Out" boys? Housing? Every large citywide unit, regardless of crime patterns, spent the majority of its time in the communities the ACLU insists are under-served.