Unacceptable vs Acceptable

Eddie is angry! Very angry it seems:

• Confronted with the bloodiest weekend in Chicago since being named police superintendent six weeks ago, Eddie Johnson on Monday called the gun violence "completely unacceptable" and said the dozens of shootings highlight "the uphill battle" confronting police.
  
  More than 50 people were shot, eight fatally, between Friday afternoon and early Monday, the city's most violent weekend since the end of September, according to a Tribune analysis.
  
  The tally included a 3 1/2-hour period early Saturday when one man was killed and 14 others were wounded — the equivalent of someone being shot every 14 minutes.
  
  Chicago is already closing in on 200 homicides as the city endures its worst violence since the late 1990s. At this rate, the city is on pace to top 500 homicides for the year for only the second time since 2008.

According to HeyJackass.com, Chicago blew by the 200 mark in style, passing 210 by the close of business yesterday.

This on the heels of Eddie's Op-Ed piece in the weekend Sun Times lamenting the systemic failure of the Courts to keep criminals behind bars:

• Eighty.
  
  That’s the combined number of arrests between two men – one an alleged offender, Raul Martinez, and one a victim, Robert Rosenau – involved in a homicide that occurred in Chicago this past Monday. The long and violent histories of these men demonstrate the challenges that Chicago police officers face every day in making our city safer.
  
  Chicagoans depend on the brave men and women of the police department to patrol the streets each day with professionalism and with respect for the people we serve. Lately, we have seen how much damage a small number of repeat offenders with violent criminal records can cause in our communities.
  
  Police cannot respond to this alone. The sad arrest histories of these men is the latest illustration of how judges and the rest of the criminal justice system need to join parents, clergy, activists and Chicago’s residents as our partners to create a culture of responsibility and accountability in neighborhoods across the city. For years, repeat offenders with violent criminal records have been able to continually cause harm in our communities with minimum consequences.

Two jagoffs with eighty arrests between them walking free - the word "concerning" would be an apt description, but you won't hear that used as long as Prickwrinkle and Dart want the jail empty, and Evans allows political hacks to sit on the benches. It would seem that the CPD and Cook County Courts are working at cross-purposes.

And when the "brave men and women" Eddie sings the praises of, are under siege by the media, the community, the politicians, and completely demoralized to the point that they are unable to do their jobs, well, it would be nice to have bosses who don't just say the words, but walk the walk as it were.

That isn't happening. In fact, history is repeating....and repeating:

That is from the thoroughly corrupted promotional exam of the late 1980's in which the phrase "Notify the Watch Commander" was utilized to clue-in the moderators that this person was on the "connected" list. Retired Sgt John Northen jousted with the windmills that time, proving beyond any doubt that the exam had been fixed from the get go.

In the early 2000's, another fixed promotional exam was exposed, partially by Mark Konkol, currently of DNAInfo.com but then, working for the now-defunct Red Streak. He reminisces last week about how little has changed in 13 years, and he is still, just about the only one keeping an eye on the current scandal.

Eddie is talking a good game, correctly blaming the Courts for the lax sentencing that releases eighty-time losers onto the streets. But praising the working cops, while ignoring the scandal of piss-poor leadership because it happens to lead to the bedrooms of himself, his nearest rival, his recently retired superior and lord knows how many other people connected by political contributions, ethnic clubs, and bedroom antics....

Well, you don't have to imagine what that leads to. You can live it, right now.