Police "Slow to React" - Rahm

Here's a typical Rahm stunt - blame the police:

• The Chicago Police Department was “slow to react” to the splintering of street gangs that drove a spike in the city’s homicide rate, Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledged Thursday.
  
  Emanuel made the rare admission during an interview with New York Times columnist David Brooks before a live audience at the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C. think tank. It was the mayor’s second trip to the nation’s capital this week.
  
  Brooks turned to Chicago’s “murder spike,” talking about how the killings made national headlines and asked the mayor to “walk us through what you did and was it was like being in the middle of it.”
  
  Emanuel responded with a rare moment of introspection. He said Chicago Police are “making progress now,” but success required the department to be more nimble and “adopt different tactics” on a daily basis.
  
  “We made some changes in the police department. I don’t think we were totally where we needed to be. . . . We had arrested the gang leadership (in) part of my tenure correctly. . . . So there was no leadership in these gangs. And they had broken down and dissolved and there was internecine gang warfare,” the mayor said.

We recall one hot day in 2012 when Rahm was right there alongside us, arresting gang leaders left and right, throwing the cuffs on jagoffs, busting knuckles and knocking off a few rounds of beer after the events of the day.

Then we also recalled a day in November of 2013, where this happened:

• The Chicago City Council Budget Committee on Monday killed a proposed amendment to Chicago’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget to hire hundreds of new police officers.
  
  The amendment, tabled by Budget Committee Chairman Carrie Austin, would have allocated $25 million to hire 500 new police officers. The measure would have taken $10 million from the City’s General Fund and $15 million from the police overtime line item for the police hires.
  
  Mayor Rahm Emanuel opposes the idea because the extra hires would add to the city’s pension burden.
  
  The parliamentary move by Austin, an Emanuel ally, prevents the whole City Council from debating and voting on the amendment.

So Rahm (and Rahm's tool) killed a mini-hiring wave that would have alleviated the acute shortage of officers that was directly responsible for slow responses to everything - burglaries, robberies, accidents, parkers, barking dogs, baby-mama-drama, gun calls, and yes, even homicides.

But it's all the Department's fault. Imagine that.