Redeployment!

Somewhere along the line, someone is going to have to tell Rahm and Mr Fenner that robbing Peter to patrol Paul's neighborhood isn't working:

• After the most violent weekend in Chicago in more than two years, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced Tuesday afternoon that several hundred additional officers have been deployed to neighborhoods most wracked by the shooting.
  
  At his second news conference in as many days, Johnson said 430 officers have been added to patrols in five of the hardest-hit districts on the West and South sides. Those numbers will increase to 600 by the weekend, he said.

And where will they come from?

• Some beat officers will have their hours extended during regular shifts, while tactical unit officers from those districts will have their days off canceled, Johnson said. Officers from the department's fugitive apprehension unit, which works with deputy U.S. marshals to find wanted criminals, will also have their days off canceled, Johnson said.

So, kind of like VRI, but you get drafted if you work in one of these shithole districts? That's going to be great for morale. The unit people will do what they're told if they want to keep their spots, but what's the benefit of being on a tactical team if you don't even get to work in the district you're assigned to?

Then the word games begin:

• Redeploying officers is often a politically risky move, but Johnson insisted no beat officers would be pulled from other districts.

Right. Beat cars will still be manned, at least as much as they have been these last few years, but eight tactical officers will be missing on days, and sixteen every night. So will mission teams, saturation teams, bikes, and every PPO they can move because they don't have contractual protections. But reporters have been trained NOT to ask the correct questions - that might embarrass Rahm.