Bi-Polar Slum Times

This is from a couple days ago:

• We firmly believe the Chicago Police Department should maintain a gang member database, so long as the list is rigorously fair and monitored. It’s just common sense.
  
  We support the creation of a new and more carefully crafted CPD gang database recently announced by Acting Police Supt. Charlie Beck and endorsed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The new database, called the Criminal Enterprise Information System, will launch in the next six to 12 months and will aim to ultimately replace CPD’s existing gang database.

Seriously. Pick a side. Some of their reasoning is hilarious:

• There were names on the list of people who had died years before. There were names of middle-aged men who had left the gang life decades ago. There were names of people who had never been in a gang. There was a disproportionate racial makeup to the list — white gangs seemed to get a pass.
  
  There was no appeals process for getting one’s name off the list. And the list could be viewed by third parties who had no business seeing at it, such as employers.

Leaving aside that there hasn't been a significant "white gang" in many years, let's try a thought experiment.

Imagine applying that reasoning to....oh, we don't know....maybe a list of CR numbers never sustained, many unfounded, from fifty years ago. Lot's of dead people on that list, no way to get their names off of it. But that's just police officers.

Or maybe a Cook County voter registration list? Thousands of dead people on those lists. No way to get the names off. We can hear the screams from here. "Racism!" "Disenfranchisement!" But that's just the "integrity" of the voting system, integrity being much of a fantasy in Cook County, Chicago.

But the Slum Times is feeling some heat somewhere if they're supporting a tool that they condemned just a few months ago. Perhaps an editor got mugged.