Is Vallas Running Already?

Not that we're complaining, but he's definitely trying to stay in the public eye as a counterpoint to Conehead's reign of error:

• Critics of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) should be madly celebrating the fact two high-ranking officials with the police oversight agency were abruptly fired last Friday. The dismissals came only days after one of the men shown the door had lodged a complaint with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), imputing the office with a bias against Chicago Police (CPD). The action gives us a clear view into how Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten manages the agency; the firings leave no doubt of Ms. Kersten’s personal animus with CPD and how she has created an atmosphere at COPA that allows an anti-police bias to flourish. The firings also expose the political nature and incompetence of the agency.

  Ms. Kersten should be fired and COPA itself should be abolished as part of a long overdue consolation and professionalization of the multiple lawyers of police oversight. It should be crystal clear by now that Ms. Kersten is hopelessly biased against the Chicago Police Department. The most recent in a series of missteps that has marked her term as Chief Administrator of the troubled agency, Kersten gained notoriety for publishing a report recommending the suspension of Officer Ella French, though French had been slain in the line of duty months before the official review was released to the public.

COPA is an easy target, which is why we suggested yesterday that Larritorious and Catanzara ought to be piling on while the headlines are working in their favor. 

This far out from the next mayoral election, you have to exploit the opportunities as they present themselves, and with Conehead's poor decision making and incompetent staff, you can turn him into the next Groot with little effort. And once he's Groot-ified, he can't control the narrative.