Tuesday, August 12, 2008
News / Clout City That was then, this is now
Posted by Mick Dumke on 08.12.08 at 04:43 PM
The Chicago Police Department released data Monday confirming that crime citywide has increased from a year ago, including homicides, which are up 18 percent. Unless I missed it, no aldermen were outraged enough to call for hearings this time. Why would they? It’s August, the quiet time around City Hall. Plus, the spike in crime wasn’t unexpected; the numbers were trending upward at about the same rates last month and the month before that and the month before that. And of course the politics of the moment don’t warrant it: no one’s been shot during a festival downtown in the last few weeks, the governor has generously offered state police backup "near" crime-plagued areas, and the attention of the International Olympic Committee is on another city halfway around the world. What’s the point in publicly dressing down the police chief now?
When aldermen summoned top cop Jody Weis to a City Council hearing last month, they cited an unprecedented level of violence at the Taste of Chicago and questioned whether police handled problems as aggressively as they should have. But that analysis appears to have been based on anecdotal evidence—i.e., bad PR—rather than facts.
During the ten days of the Taste, the city’s 911 center received 2,634 calls requesting police from within the First District, which includes the Loop and Grant Park, according to the city's Office of Emergency Communications. That was a small increase—1 percent—from the 2,599 calls made during the 2007 Taste, a figure that was up slightly from the 2,581 calls made in 2006.
It seems to me that anyone seeking to understand how police actually responded to safety concerns at the Taste would need to know how many people were arrested. But a police spokesman told me the department doesn’t know offhand, and apparently no public figure has asked it to find out. "After a thorough search, I must inform you that the Department does not maintain an existing public record or program that captures the information you seek," Freedom of Information officer Matthew Sandoval wrote me. Digging the numbers up, he added, would be too burdensome.
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From: http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/ "SCC is the voice of Freedom, truth and justice against the Chicago way, the most corrupt police department in the country led by patronage hacks, and merit appointees who have stolen promotions over legit police officers, destroying the once greatest department in the world. Th blog is read by those in power who live in fear that masses are going to revolt and they will be outed. Please US attorney out the management of the corrupt CPD. How many merit appointees have been promoted after being suspended for planting evidence, violating civil rights etc. How come the arrests of several merit sergeants for driving under the influence, shop lifting or worse yet domestic violence is swept under the rug??? SCC is the freedom fighter, the voice of those of us who took this job as a vocation, not a patronage job, the CPD should not have been turned into a mini version of Streets and San, who you know determines where you go. Fear merits fear. 8/12/2008 07:48:00 AM" Visit the blog and be amazed.
Mr. Sandoval was nice about not getting you the information. I would have told you to kiss my ass.
What if we cut the Alderman from 50 to 25 and voted in term limits for Mayor and Alderman. Most people when they seriously screw up on their jobs they are terminated.
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City agencies must by law respond to F.O.I REQUEST. Many city agencies have illegally shred public documents. I have found this to be the case,Water and the Building departments. Agencies must get permission from the State local record commission to destroy public documents.
Lay-Offs because of Budget Short-Fall. Sounds to familiar. Da Mayor and his boys spend, and the Taxpayers -Union City Workers Pay ! You get what you vote for!
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