Well Lookie Here

Pittsburgh just lost residency in Court:

• The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that Pittsburgh Police officers don't have to live inside city limits.
  
  The decision overturns a long-standing city residency requirement upheld in January by a 4-3 ruling in the State Commonwealth Court.
  
  Attorneys representing local police argued now and in the past that officers should be allowed to live outside the city for their own safety. KDKA reports that included the freedom to be more selective when considering area school districts.
  
  Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said in a statement Monday that he disagrees with the high court's decision.
  
  "We want our police officers to continue to live in the neighborhoods and communities that they serve," he said. "We defended the will of the residents of Pittsburgh, all the way to the Supreme Court, believing that the law that allowed Pittsburgh to become a Home Rule Charter city should have taken precedence."

And they beat it over Home Rule?

This comeback from the local communists is hilarious:

• Brandi Fisher, director of the Alliance for Police Accountability, echoed Peduto. She said having officers live in the city creates a sense of community.
  
  "Building real relationships happens when you can see people at the store, when you live in the same neighborhoods, in the same communities," Fisher said.
  
  It's ironic, she said, that officers would choose to live outside of the city to access better schools and housing.
  
  “It just goes to show a mentality towards the people in the city," Fisher said. "If your feeling is that its poor housing, poor communities, poor schooling, then you already have ... some sort of disdain in the way that you’re looking at these communities.”

So, "We've done everything in our power to neuter the police, make your job as dangerous as possible, demonized you from the elderly all the way down to the children. We've ruined the schools, taxed you to the eyeballs and celebrate when you get shot, maimed or killed. Now you cops have the audacity to want a better life? You better sit right here in Shits-burgh and be miserable with all the rest of us!"

Aldercreatures are selling out the formerly "quiet" neighborhoods favored by cops, firemen and other city workers.

This is a non-starter in Springfield, but we've said it before - everywhere a local FOP has sued, they've eventually won.