Aldercreatrures Solve Pension Crisis!

After all, they wouldn't take up something so stupid if the crisis was ongoing, would they?

• Chicago Police officers and their counterparts in public and private security would be forbidden from using chokeholds under a crackdown proposed Monday in response to protests sweeping the nation.
  
  Last week, a New York grand jury refused to indict a police officer who placed Eric Garner in a chokehold after Garner resisted arrest for selling loose cigarettes, which are also a chronic complaint of Chicago aldermen.
  
  The decision added fuel to the fire for protesters already upset about a grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, Mo., not to indict the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown.
  
  On Monday, Chicago aldermen were moved to take action.

So let's get this straight:

1. A Grand Jury in New York doesn't indict a cop for using an alleged "choke" hold while enforcing the law of New York;
2. Another Grand Jury in Missouri doesn't indict a cop for defending his life against an attempted disarming;
3. Low information citizens, professional race baiters, grievance-mongers and agitators make noise, march and pretty much break peaceable assembly laws;
4. Chicago aldercreatures saw an opportunity to distract people from a burgeoning $600 million  pension balloon payment due shortly

Makes perfect sense...if you're a moron.

There isn't a cop on the job now that was taught a "choke hold" as a control tactic. Or if there is, it's under 100 guys and they're all hidden away in Warrant Offices or driver spots or the courts where the chances of them actually choking someone are about zero.

Choke holds haven't been taught for 30 years. It's an opportunistic headline and Burke ought to be ashamed to be bringing this shit up. He was a cop for what? a year? before being handed his daddy's aldercreature spot. Of course, he's Ed Burke, the guy who takes a city car to Wisconsin for golf outings. He's beyond common shame.

He also makes these whopper claims:

• “In my class, we were taught how to choke people and to choke 'em until they lost consciousness. And when they taught us how to do that at the time, we were taught to use our nightstick to choke that person,” Burke said.
  
  “Fifty years ago, when I was taught as a Chicago cop to choke people into unconsciousness, water-boarding was being used commonly. Water-boarding is not used anymore and choking shouldn’t be used anymore.”

It isn't, you ass. That's why they stopped teaching it. That's why the General Orders forbid it. And water boarding? Where does he come up with this shit? Rubber hoses? Telephone books? Sap gloves? We've all heard the stories, some may have been true. Water boarding? We'd like to know where Eddie served his year at, because we imagine all the guys in that District went on to illustrious careers as "merit" sergeants, lieutenants, captains, deputies and supernintendos, all for keeping their mouth shut about what Ed did.

Go find the pension money that you and Richie stole, diverted, and spent. And after you solve that one, go fuck yourself.