The papers didn't cover it. If it was on TV, we missed it. The major news radio station was mysteriously silent. But it's something everyone in a position of power ought to be thinking about:
The head of the Chicago police union says the city is not ready to host two major summits that would bring both international leaders and protestors. [...], the president of the Chicago police union, said summits like the G-8 and NATO bring a "bunch of wild, anti-globalist anarchists."
Protestors notoriously clashed with police officers in Seattle and Pittsburgh at previous political summits and [he] says Chicago's police force doesn't have the manpower needed to deal with thousands of potential protestors.
"The City of Chicago needs to take a serious look at how much revenue they're going to allocate immediately for new hirings because we are not ready prepared for a large summit such as this," [some guy] said.
If the stories out of recent parades are true, along with the 010 District melee and all the recent wilding/gooning/flash mob incidents downtown, then the dreaded "manpower" issue is going to be front and center very quickly. Academy classes ought to be started in very short order to make up the steadily declining numbers, because we can name a dozen people who will retire before May of next year just to avoid this thing.