This Crap Again?

We did this once before. It didn't work. No one wants to sit and get berated by a bunch of "activists" because you're ordered to:

• Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson will introduce recruits to New York-style training methods in 2017 to improve the relationship between cops and a distrustful public, he said in a wide-ranging interview Wednesday.
  
  Johnson, searching for new ways to prevent a repeat of Chicago’s out-of-control gun violence in 2016, is taking lessons from New York City’s police training academy, which he recently toured.
  
  Starting in January, the department will launch a pilot program to change the way recruits are introduced to the neighborhoods where they’ll work.
  
  “Before they go to their district, where they will be formally assigned, we’re going to let them go there for a week or so and meet some community members,” Johnson said. “Then, when they go there for their field training, those same community members will partner up with them and take them around those communities.”
  
  Johnson said the training will help rookie officers distinguish between “the good people in the community” and the crooks.
  
  “I liked what I saw in New York,” he said.

We don't have to learn from New York. There's plenty of talent right here in Chicago if you'd just listen. We've been trying that New York crap on-and-off for much of our career. We even imported a top-cop from New York, and we all see how that worked out. New York didn't invent police work.

Here's a simple lesson from us and you don't even have to fly to New York to get it - you want to know how you spot the "good members" of the community? They're the ones going to jobs, doing homework with their kids, maintaining their property, going to church, driving their properly licensed vehicles, sleeping in their own beds at night.

We can't even imagine the liability involved when "partnering" with community members while they point out the ne'er-do-wells ravaging their communities.