New Policy!!!

There's another lawsuit wending its way through the courts for a justified shooting:

• Veteran Chicago tactical Officer [...] has always maintained that he shot Christian Green after the black teenager turned and pointed a gun at him during a South Side foot chase on the Fourth of July 2013.
  
  On Tuesday, a lawyer representing Green's mother in a wrongful death lawsuit against Gonzalez told jurors the officer's story was a lie.
  
  "The evidence will show you Christian didn't point a gun at the police. He was running from them," attorney Victor Henderson said in his opening statement at the Daley Center. "He was running, and he was running hard."
  
  In her opening remarks, [the officer]'s attorney, Assistant Corporation Counsel Dana O'Malley, said what happened on that warm, sunny holiday afternoon was a "tragedy" but that it was Green's own actions that led to his death.

So an officer defending his life against an armed assailant is a "tragedy"? What a crock of shit. Corporation Counsel can go fuck themselves sideways if this is their attitude nowadays. The gun was located and the offender's actions left little doubt he was willing to kill an officer.

But that isn't why we're writing this post. Guess what's coming up shortly?

• Green's death was one of scores of officer-involved shootings in recent years that occurred after a foot chase. In fact, an unprecedented database compiled by the Tribune showed that foot chases played a role in more than a third of the 235 police shootings from 2010 through 2015 that ended with someone wounded or killed.
  
  The issue was red-flagged by the U.S. Justice Department in its scathing report in January that found Chicago police routinely violated the civil rights of citizens, particularly in African-American and Hispanic communities.

The DOJ provided next to no proof that civil rights were "routinely violated" except for a very few unattributed, unsubstantiated stories heard second and third hand.

But that isn't the reason for this post either:

• Last month, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson unveiled a list of the department's "next steps for reform" that included new training that would cover when and how officers should engage in foot pursuits.

Yep, the long awaited Foot Pursuit Policy is headed to a District near you! The media, while misrepresenting the DOJ report, has decided that foot pursuits lead to too many shootings, so they have to stop.

We're already seeing the result of No Vehicle Chases - an explosion in the numbers of vehicles that flee and elude.

And we're already seeing the results of the ACLU effect - an explosion in the numbers of people with extra holes in their bodies.

Guess what we're about to see next?