Um...You Want What Now?

Kass has an article up behind the Tribune pay wall. It is of course, about the dead 9-year-old, executed by his father's rivals. Part of it is what you would expect:

• The detectives had just finished their meeting at the edge of the alley near 80th and Damen on Chicago's South Side.
  
  They were middle-aged men in sweaters and jackets, their faces heavy with the weight of the heater case. One answered me before I could ask a thing.
  
  "It's down there," he said. "You'll see the balloons."
  
  There are always balloons at the makeshift shrines of children shot dead in Chicago, and teddy bears and cards.

Part of it is odd:

• Espen Rasmussen, a photographer for the Norwegian magazine VG Helg, worked his camera in the alley.
  
  "I don't know if the people of my country could comprehend this," Rasmussen said. "A child? Targeted for assassination? They wouldn't understand it."
  
  What wouldn't they understand?
  
  "To kill a child to punish the father? They wouldn't know how to talk about it, how to comprehend it. Oslo is a big city. People are killed. But children, like this?

That's kind of rich coming from a guy from a continent that slaughtered some tens of millions in the last world war, including men, women and children, many for collaborating. And a continent currently home to how many refugees who think nothing of slaughtering their own children for perceived or imagined slights to family honor?

And part of the article is an incredible admission on a part of the community:

• At the shrine, grandmothers Cammise Tubbs and Evelgina Avant were praying. They held hands.
  
  "May the angels welcome you to heaven," said Tubbs, eyes closed. "And we light these candles as a token of loving respect for you baby, and by the blood of Jesus we pray the father's sins did not fall on this child. Protect us Lord from these killers and bring our community together."
  
  They lit candles, placed them next to the pile of stuffed animals, and then lit their cigarettes.
  
  Avant said she wished Two-Gun Pete — a notoriously brutal black Chicago cop who was long used as a bogeyman to keep South Side kids in line — was still alive.
  
  "Why? Because you got to scare these boys, that's why," Avant said. "And Two-Gun Pete was no joke!"

Ex-squeeze me? Grandma wants Two-Gun Pete back? A brutal beast of a cop with around a dozen official deaths to his credit and a few that might not have made the papers, along with countless hospitalizations, cripplings and many dozens more who decided not to seek medical attention, but instead took their ass beatings as part of the cost of doing business.

You want this back? You can't control your spawn, or the spawn of your spawn, or the spawn.....you get the idea....you want a cop to be the parent you never were? A parent so brutal that even 60 or 70 years later, his exploits make decent people shudder? After how many lawsuits, marches, laws, punitive judgements, millions of dollars, etc (some justified, some not). This is your solution to stopping the killing? A more brutal police department?

Are you fucking kidding?