Another Outsider?

A "police auditor:"

• The independent police auditor for San Jose, California, said Monday he agreed to take a “small” pay cut to accept a job he called the “biggest policing challenge in America” — as Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s point-person for public safety.
  
  Walter Katz, 50, will become Emanuel’s $165,000-a-year deputy chief of staff for public safety and chief liaison with the Chicago Police Department. He replaces Janey Rountree, who left on the day the U.S. Justice Department released its scathing indictment of the Chicago Police Department.
  
  Katz will be asked to help turn an agreement in principle with the Justice Department into a detailed consent decree that culminates in the hiring of a federal monitor to ride herd over the Chicago Police Department.

You have to wonder what all these people have on Rahm that they get hired here at astronomical salaries with absolutely no frame of reference to Chicago.

And all with the prospect of no federal assistance from Washington DC.

Oh, and if you're an exempt, be prepared to sit and eat shit for Rahm's cameras:

• After hearing from a “startling cross-section” of Chicagoans who view police officers as racist, Lightfoot has made the case for “some kind of racial reconciliation” that would allow Chicagoans who have felt harassed or disrespected by police to publicly air their grievances across the table from police brass.

That will certainly be interesting - we'll be able to pick out the next two or three superintendents by how big their grin is as they gobble it up with a knife, fork and spoon.