In the outpouring of jubilation following the departure of the "failed experiment," it was inevitable that bad information would get out there as the Daley-controlled media continued to paint the police in a bad light. Here's one of the more egregious examples by Paul Meincke at Channel 7:
- Just before 4 p.m., Mayor Richard M. Daley's office confirmed Weis will leave Tuesday. Weis has not commented.
The former FBI sergeant was brought in by Daley as an outsider to lead the Chicago Police Department, which had been tarnished by officer misconduct allegations. Since his arrival, misconduct complaints dropped, the murder rate fell and the department got new cars, guns and detectives got a four-day work week.
We were unaware the FBI had ranks of sergeant. Then there's the attribution of non-existent problems and solutions that were in no way attached to anything J-Fled actually did. And the "four-day work week" shows a complete lack of understanding as to what the 4-and-2 schedule actually accomplishes, therefore feeding the public misperception of how much police officers and detectives are actually working.
But hey, remember, the media has all those layers of fact checking and it's bloggers and insiders who don't actually know what's going on.
But hey, remember, the media has all those layers of fact checking and it's bloggers and insiders who don't actually know what's going on.