New Academy Approved

Rahm attempting to shaft his successor with an underbid, poorly constructed campus built on what may be a toxic piece of property with inadequate parking and inconveniently accessible:

• With time running out on his mayoral reign, Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday locked in two building blocks of his development legacy: the $6 billion Lincoln Yards development and construction of a $95 million police and fire training academy in West Garfield Park.
  
  First up was the 38-to-8 vote to approve an $85 million contract with engineering giant AECOM to design and build a new police academy on vacant land at 4301 W. Chicago Ave.
  
  For more than a year now, Black Lives Matter movement and other young people, organized under the #NoCopAcademy label, have made that project a symbol of Emanuel’s misplaced spending priorities.

We find it amusing that the "progressives" and communists claim police need more training, then attempt to deny them the most basic infrastructure to accomplish that training. It's like their handlers are afraid this might reduce the lawsuits filed against the police.

It's also amusing (as a frequent e-mailer points out) that the NYPD just built an academy that cost over $950 million and Rahm thinks that he can build a combined police/fire academy for one-tenth of the price. We'll go out on a limb and say that the final cost tops $300 million and the buildings start to collapse within a year. By 2050, we'll start seeing the first lawsuits from a cancer-cluster centered around the campus.