Kill The Messenger

As with all tyrants:

• Alderman Carrie Austin was featured in the Sun-Times about two weeks ago saying that she wanted Louis Farikan's Fruit of Islam troops patrolling her ward.
  
  Carrie Austin, Sandi Jackson, Toni Foulkes and the rest of the (fill-in-the-blanks) are responsible for McKnucklehead coming in and ruining this department and for letting manpower decline to levels which make us ineffective.
  
  But they will get their "Box Missions" around their houses now so it will be all right.
  
  Here is something from the fly on the wall from HQ. When an Alderman complains to McKnucklehead, as sometimes they do, about the low manpower what happens. McKnucklehead call the District Commander and slams them for letting on that there is a manpower problem.

How can anyone not know there's a manpower issue? Retirements far out pace hiring, there is no way the Department is going to keep up again this year unless 400 more suddenly appear out of thin air, the Time Due restrictions continue apace, meaning that there just aren't enough personnel to grant what was previously available. Even Stevie Wonder could see there just aren't enough coppers around.