"Diversity"

More political games:

• In his pitch Monday to recruit a diverse pool of applicants for an upcoming police entrance exam — the first since 2013 — Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy’s approach was equal parts practical and idealogical.
  
  “At the end of the day, it’s a pretty good-paying job with great benefits,” McCarthy said at a news conference held at police headquarters.
  
  “Officers will start with a salary of $47,000, and after 18 months that will go to $72,000, and there’s not a lot of places where you can get that in this environment right now, in this economy,” he said, adding that health care for the whole family was included.

Um, this is the greatest economy since WWII. Just ask Sparklefarts and all the people lined up nose-to-ass coming out of the White House, along with the media. We won't tolerate that sort of talk around here.

• And, for the idealists: “It’s probably the most noble thing a person can do with their life,” McCarthy said.
  
  The job offers “the best and the worst of humanity in the same day, frankly,” McCarthy said, noting that the pendulum swings from “I can’t believe that just happened” — when encountering the best of humanity — to “God almighty, I can’t believe what I just saw.”

And that's just what you hear walking out of the Thursday morning CompStat meeting. The lies, data manipulation and number-spinning is enough to make you cry - or write award winning articles for Chicago Magazine.

In the meantime, in Reality World, we find articles like this forwarded to our e-mail:

• Pretty soon, police departments nationwide will have to lower their hiring standards, increase salaries and benefits, and put a lot more money into marketing for new hires, because the men and women who would usually be candidates for law enforcement careers will choose another path.
  
  Becoming a police officer used to be a family tradition. It's not just an Irish thing, as is often depicted in movies and on television. I cannot count how many father/son and even mother/daughter, police families you can find out there in various departments, of all different colors and backgrounds. It's an honorable profession serving the community, and children who are raised in cop households often grow up with the same sense of civic responsibility as their parents. I even know of one family in the Washington, DC, area who has family (cousins, brothers, etc.) in almost every police department in and around the city. Meet one "Officer Wigglesworth" and I guarantee you, he's related to all of the others.
  
  But the times, they are a'changin. And not for the better. Because the overall attitude toward law enforcement has shifted and changed. The profession that was so revered after 9/11 has instead become itself the target of hate. A lot of people have tried to make the community's problems with law enforcement a race issue. But the cop killers are indiscriminate as to whom they murder. Black, white, Hispanic, Asian - it's all about the color of the uniform, so to speak, not the color of the officer's skin.

And that isn't from a usual gloom-and-doom type website - that's the ultra-liberal Huffington Post writing there, and if they're seeing this, well then the past 10 years we've been preaching it put us somewhere above Nostradamus.