Shades of Phil Cline

Look!  Up in the Sky!

It's a bird!  It's a plane! It's Super-Superintendent!

• It’s always busy for Chicago Police on New Year’s Eve but when Austin District Patrol Officer William Riga learned he’d be elbow to elbow with the superintendent himself, another factor was in the mix.
  
  “Initially I felt a little bit more pressure but when we got into the car with him he put it to rest,’’ said Riga, 31
  
  “He said, ‘Let’s go out and do the job,’’’ Riga said, quoting police Supt. Garry McCarthy.

Of course, the story goes on to tell of a traffic stop, suspicious activity and a gun arrest.

It reminds us of the time that Phil Cline on-viewed shots fired, gave chase around some alleys, through an abandoned building, over three or four fences before finally kicking in a door and arresting a felon with a gun on New Years Eve a number of years back.  Or something like that.  The finer details escape us.

While it's all well and good to see a boss, let alone The boss, riding around making the troops edgy, we'd probably appreciate it more if we weren't reading about it in the papers and heard it over small talk somewhere else.  The Department confiscates how many illegal guns a year?  But we hear about this one?  This kind of smells of self-promoting.