- The Weis exit . . .
The abrupt resignation of former top cop Jody Weis after just eight months on the job as head of the Chicago Crime Commission was no surprise.
* To wit: Sneed is told Weis never got the control he wanted and butted heads with the wrong people, er, J.R. Davis, the head of the commission’s board of directors — who will take over Weis’s position.
* Fact: His relationship with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Commissioner Garry McCarthy was cool to nonexistent. ”He’s not what you call a team player,” said a top source.
* The flipside: Weis “had great local, state and federal credentials and he was trying to move the Crime Commission into the 21st Century,” a 20-year member of the board told Sneed. “But the old guard there didn’t seem to like precisely what they hired him to do.”
* Translation: “Everything he wanted to do they found difficult,” said another source. “He felt, ‘If we can’t come to agreement on the simple stuff, it’s not going to work out.’ ”
* Ouch: Sneed hears a person Weis had hired was fired last week without his knowledge.
* Quoth Weis: “I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the Chicago Crime Commission,” Weis told Sneed. “I believe we have improved our impact and raised our profile given what we were able to accomplish in a short time — and the direction I felt we needed to head. I believe it was a good time to move into other efforts.”
* The end shot: Weis loves Chicago and plans to spend more time with his wife before he starts looking for another job.
So the Machine got sick and tired of the feeb who wouldn't play along with their corruption games. We can only imagine what actual reform might look like around here.