Railroading? Are You Kidding?

Who was bitching and moaning in the last year or two about freight yards being looted of guns? It wasn't just guns being stolen of course - TV's, liquor, appliances, clothes - all of that was stolen also. But guns are the bugaboo of the Rahm administration, so guns got the headlines.

Now some of those same people are claiming they're being "entrapped" into stealing shoes:

• A joint investigation by Chicago police and the Norfolk Southern Railroad that used a truck loaded with goods and left parked in Englewood as a lure for potential thieves has come under fire after video of the operation went viral.
  
  “This bait truck operation is an unacceptable and inappropriate use of police resources,” said Ald. Roderick Sawyer, 6th, chair of the City Council’s Black Caucus. “In a moment where police capacity is clearly under extreme strain, these sort of tactics are the last thing we should be spending manpower and energy on.”

Really? So the CPD and Norfolk-Southern should just wait until boxcars are broken into, looted, packed into cars or trucks, and then chased at high speed through neighborhoods so that the burglars can run over little old ladies and tiny children. We guess Tommy Dart should stop running reverse prostitution stings, tactical teams might want to scale back the reverses, and the Second Deputy (along with Farrell) should apologize for those delivery truck robbery things that they stopped.

Here's a quick adjustment to the "community's" moral compass - if it ain't yours, don't touch it, don't trespass into it, and don't steal it.

Once again, you know what would be helpful to the police? That list of laws and ordinances that certain people aren't expected to follow. We guess we can add "Burglary" to the already extensive list.

On the bright side, we guess that the question of whether or not Sawyer is a complete moron has now been answered.