This Might Be Interesting

Of course, it's being run by a guy who couldn't locate any e-mails on a closed system and managed to parley that incompetence into a budget that doubled or tripled the size of his office:

• Chicago’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has launched an investigation of the city’s preparations for protests that devolved into riots and looting on the weekend of May 30, according to documents provided to CWBChicago by a source.
  
  The examination of the city’s planning and performance was set into motion on June 10 when Inspector General Joseph Ferguson ordered the Chicago Police Department to preserve a wide array of records from between May 25 and June 8.
  
  A representative from the OIG’s office who met with the Fraternal Order of Police on Wednesday told the union the preservation request was designed to learn about the city’s protest planning, according to a summary of the meeting that was provided to CWBChicago.
  
  The OIG did not respond to a request for comment.

Why don't we just save Fergie some time - there was no plan. And the main reason is that Groot has spent the past year gutting the knowledge base of the Department by shunting qualifeid people into dead-end jobs (Georgas) and forcing others to retire or become so resentful, they wouldn't do a thing to make outsiders look good.

Exhibit A? Brownie has been bitching to numerous people that he can't pick any of his staff - can't even run interviews - and has basically been told that Groot runs the show along with a few civilian directors, like that Khan ass who begged Riccio to be allowed to carry a gun, but was denied numerous times. One might think that Brownie is smelling what the Groot is cooking, and it's deep-fried Southern Brownie-Ass for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

• Leading up to the 2012 NATO convention in Chicago, an alphabet soup of federal agencies worked with the police department to develop a plan for handling protests that were expected to include anarchists and extremist groups.
  
  It’s a plan that works so well, the city has pulled out the same playbook time after time to handle volatile protests downtown. Inexplicably, those proven plans were jettisoned by whoever is responsible for the city’s May 30 plan.
  
  The genius of the NATO strategy lies in its simplicity: use the city’s geography to contain protesters and prevent outsiders from intervening. Under the long-established plan, protesters have been allowed to march and congregate in the Loop. But police, supported by CPD’s flexible bicycle teams, never allowed the crowds to cross any of the Chicago River bridges.
  
  Protesters, contained by the river and the lake, marched in circles while flanked by police. When small groups broke away from the pack, CPD bicycle teams would out-flank them and move them back to the herd.
  
  None of that happened on May 30 until it was too late.

Yeah, we pretty much asked these same questions the first night everything went to shit. But god forbid anyone listen to an anonymous blog with authors and readers who have been serving since the 1960's and 70's.

Fergie is going to find a convenient scapegoat for Groot's meddling and gloss over her incompetent picks and decisions.