Catanzara is Correct

It might be a losing battle, but it needs to be out there:

• The yearslong battle over how to handle the Chicago Police Department’s most serious misconduct cases continued Tuesday with attorneys for the city’s largest police union urging an appellate court panel to overturn a ruling requiring disciplinary hearings to be held in public.

  The fight over police discipline erupted during union contract negotiations and stretched from the City Council floor to the courtroom of Cook County Judge Michael Mullen, who ruled that cops can choose to have their cases heard by an arbitrator instead of the Chicago Police Board.

  But Mullen also found that arbitration shouldn’t be held behind closed doors, pushing the union to appeal.

The main objection from the FOP:

• Leaving court Tuesday, FOP President John Catanzara said the city only wants hearings held publicly “to make it a circus and to intimidate the arbitrator.”

Of course. Historical precedent, cemented in Contractual language, is a big hurdle to leap. It requires both parties to come to the table an ::gasp:: negotiate any changes....Party A asks/gives something, Party B asks/gives something in return.

The city, run by democrats for a century now, routinely ignore Contract protections and then dare the other party to sue them, knowing that they control the Courts, appoint the judges and direct where the political donations go. If they can squeeze a few extra votes out of the low-information masses, they can further secure the one-party rule that has locked Chicago into an ever accelerating doom loop.

And just to make sure they have plenty of low-information voters around, they ruin the schools so badly that 90% can't read at grade level, do math, or be bothered to research what Machine politico is connected to which other organization.

So it's correct to fight, even if the deck is marked and stacked against the FOP, if only to be able to say, "We told you so" years down the road.