It's Baaaaaaack

Of course, it was never really dead - it was just sleeping:

• Calling community policing done right a “force multiplier,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Garry McCarthy tried Tuesday to breathe new life into Chicago’s once-vibrant, but now stagnant, CAPS program.
  
  The plan to move 50 community policing employees from police headquarters to districts and place the entire program in the hands of Chief of Patrol Joe Patterson follows through on promises made in the mayor’s 2013 budget address.
  
  
• Instead of dictating “cookie-cutter” CAPS programs from downtown, district commanders will customize programs to attack local problems, foster relationships with residents and businesses using social media, and be held accountable under the CompStat evaluation system used to hold everybody else’s feet to the fire.
  
  Every district will be assigned a CAPS sergeant and two police officers along with a community organizer and access to a youth service provider and area coordinator. Four citywide coordinators will oversee community policing programs with a particular focus on seniors, youth, domestic violence and victims assistance.
  
  Every police officer will be trained in community policing strategies, including “procedural justice and police legitimacy,” with 2,500 officers and 400 recruits trained already.
  

Ah yes, "legitimacy" training. What a waste of 8-hours this shit was.  The training that has instructors telling veteran police officers that "gang bangers are people, too, just misunderstood" and just ignore the fact that they bring mayhem, gunfire and death to the communities they populate, not to mention the attacks on police and crime creeping into formerly safe neighborhoods. And the "reverends" who preach from storefronts (and St. Sabina's) while driving Bentleys, Benzes and Cadillacs with vanity plates while dictating policy and police commander assignments are deserving of our respect instead of contempt.

Oh, and you'll do it all for free - and like it!

• On Tuesday, Emanuel and McCarthy acknowledged that they are not increasing the community policing budget, nor are they restoring overtime to attend beat meetings and CAPS events.
  
  “Why should we be paying officers overtime to do their job?” the superintendent said.

So we guess once again, two thirds of the watches won't be attending these meetings that only turned out to be "bitch at the police" sessions while failing to take any responsibility doe their own communities and the spawn they "raised.

CAPS and Legitimacy - a marriage made in Hell.