Let's form a new Special Police Unit!
Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) on Wednesday proposed the city create a special police unit in the North Halsted Street entertainment district to address concerns about recent violence there.
Tunney’s proposal follows a videotaped attack on a man Sunday night in the 3300 block of North Halsted in the Lake View neighborhood’s Boystown section — the center of the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
The video shows about 10 young men kicking and punching a 25-year-old man who was stabbed in the melee. No one is in custody in the attack. Police don’t believe the incident was a hate crime.
Is this guy paying attention? J-Fled stripped the districts to the bone populating an endless parade of redundant units. G-Mac just spent the first 60 days disbanding any unit he could find to put cops back in the Patrol Division in a last ditch effort to maintain control during the hot summer months. We're still expecting the Detectives to be ordered back into uniform at some point should July and August prove to be exceptionally bloody.
And now Tunney wants a "special unit" formed? This guy hasn't been paying attention at all.
And now Tunney wants a "special unit" formed? This guy hasn't been paying attention at all.