10% Sustained

COPA is rolling out and the word on the street is that they are under the gun for a 8-to-10% sustained rate of complaints. This is before they have even been activated as the lead agency. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a quota. And cops are going to pay in suspension time, employment and even jail time.

The article is a marvel of leftist bullshit:

• As Chicago's new police oversight agency prepared to begin operations, its chief administrator led a graduation ceremony for some 40 staffers newly trained in investigating alleged misconduct by officers.
  
  The event last week took on the feel of a pep rally as Sharon Fairley summoned each trainee and gave brief, encouraging descriptions of those who will staff the Civilian Office of Police Accountability when it opens Friday.
  
  She described one as a "female Sgt. Friday" who seeks "just the facts" while praising employees for their tenacity, inquisitiveness and unwillingness to settle for anything but the truth.
  
  Those are qualities rarely ascribed to the new agency's predecessor, the Independent Police Review Authority, which was led by Fairley and where some of those same trainees worked. That agency's tenure will end after a decade marked by questionable investigations, long delays and rare attempts at disciplining cops.

"...the feel of a pep rally..." You mean like before the big game? Because that is exactly what this is to them - a game. And as we stated before, the prize is how many heads they can nail to the wall. And if you read the entire article, you'll see that we were 100% correct - the effort to discredit IPRA is full speed ahead in order to establish instant "credibility." IPRA is castigated time and time again in the article. And as predicted....:

• The agency has also reopened controversial cases closed before the McDonald scandal, though COPA spokeswoman Mia Sissac could not say how many.

We'll tell you right now, the SOS scandal is back in play, probably Broken Star in 015, almost anything attached to 025, and a few Englewood scandals, though curiously, nothing in Housing.

And what's with this leftist crack from the head of a city agency?

• In an interview with the Tribune at COPA's newly expanded headquarters in West Town, Fairley grew most animated when asked if the disciplinary system victimizes police.
  
  "Oh, give me a break!" she said.
  
  "We are at a real crossroads in our city, and they are a member of this community," she said. "Just because we're holding them accountable in a way they haven't experienced before, they're squealing. I can't be sorry for that."

In this hyper-sensitive political age, any copper making a snarky generalization that has even a hint of a disparaging undertone would be crucified on the 24-7 news cycle. But Fairley is permitted to equate coppers legitimate objections with "squealing?" What else squeals?

FOP, you're going to let this stand?

If that doesn't tell you exactly where Fairley and her merry band of hangmen are coming from, we don't know what will.