Dumbassery

These assholes still get a say in a "consent decree" that hasn't involved the FOP in a single step:

• An activist coalition led by Black Lives Matter on Tuesday pressed its case for major changes to the consent decree outlining the terms of federal court oversight over the Chicago Police Department.
  
  “If the city refuses to include these demands in the decree, this most recent effort to address police violence and racism could fail like every effort that has come before it,” Jonathon Projansky of Black Lives Matter Chicago, told a City Hall news conference outside the mayor’s office.
  
  Ted Mann of Network 49 said the demands go far beyond police shootings that make headlines. It’s about stopping police violence that is “so frequent, it’s not newsworthy,” he said.

Yeah, because the police are routinely shooting people (and folks) in double digits every single weekend. NEWSFLASH - It's not newsworthy because it ISN'T happening asshat.

• “So much of this violence is committed because police have incentives to escalate encounters with our community. And much of this violence is committed when officers claim to be arresting people for minor non-violent issues such as marijuana possession, drinking in the public way and disorderly conduct. Arrests are their own kind of violence and they destroy lives.”

Um, what? What does that mean exactly? The dumbassery on display here is laughable. This is the same type of bitching we hear when out-of-control blockparties lead to gunfire and someone says, "Why didn't the police do something?"

• Some of the recommendations released Tuesday — like removing police officers from Chicago Public Schools and an elected civilian police oversight board — were articulated in May, long before a draft copy of the proposed consent decree was released.

Yeah, we've been advocating getting cops out of the schools for years, but that's to alleviate manpower shortages already present.

• Other ideas are brand new. They include:
  
  • Prohibiting Chicago Police officers from unholstering their firearms unless lethal force becomes necessary.
  
  • Requiring police officers to file a report every time they point a gun or Taser at someone — or even observe a colleague using force.

We've been assured by two different Deputy Chiefs at roll calls that this proposal is Dead on Arrival. Even the brass knows this would spell the end of any sort of police work.

• • Mandating that police officers pass annual psychological evaluations and receive “supervisory authority” before making minor arrests and requiring officers to “engage in best efforts to create diversion partnerships, including restorative justice and community mediation.”

Um, how about "Go fuck yourself sideways"? And "supervisory authority" to initiate a "minor arrest"? Talk about activity grinding to a halt. Wait for a sergeant to respond to every job, duplicate officer's previous efforts on scene, making a few calls and then telling you, "Sure, you ought to arrest this person." Do these idiots have any idea how stupid that sounds?

• • Making de-escalation the “rule and not the exception” by providing incentives to officers who “refuse to use force and solve problems without making arrests and strengthening language that authorizes officers to de-escalate “when safe and feasible.” In addition, officers must not be penalized for taking time to resolve an incident without using force. They must also be prohibited from taunting, humiliating, threatening and using racial or gendered slurs that escalate incidents.

Incentives? Like a cash reward system for not arresting people? If that's the plan, count us in!

• • Prohibiting police officers who continue to be assigned to schools from carrying firearms or handcuffs or using force “except in exigent circumstances.” Officers would also have a “duty not to intervene in incidents on school grounds absent a real or immediate threat.” They would be barred from interviewing or interrogating youth on school grounds.

So no guns in schools? One more reason to get out of schools. And ignore crime off of school property. We're actually getting into this part of the proposal. If we could just include eight-foot-fences, topped with barbed wire, surrounded by a moat and patrolled by rabid feral cats, you've got our vote.

There's more to the insanity and all it does is create a furtherance of "Laws that don't have to be followed by the community or else we call everyone a racist!"