Rehashing Morale

It sucks and has sucked for a long time - not much new here:

• Former Chicago police officer Charles Walters says the department is in crisis due to what he calls a collapse in authority, surging crime and a lack of leadership from City Hall.

  Walters, who spent more than two decades with the Chicago Police Department in patrol, gang units and seven years undercover in narcotics, said the department’s challenges begin at the top.

  “The previous mayor (Lori Lightfoot) didn’t seem like they really had our back,” Walters told Chicago City Wire. “And this mayor (Brandon Johnson) really seems like he doesn’t have the back of the police. It starts there and trickles down to the superintendent. Then the fact that it took a lot of powers from us. We can’t do a lot of things we wanted to do, and the criminals know that.”

In our opinion, it's not that we couldn't do what we "wanted" to do - it was what we weren't permitted to do moving forward....like enforcing the Law. The rules of the job never bothered us, but the endless documentation did. 

And then, how the documentation was used was our biggest complaint. It wasn't use to prosecute law breakers, it was used to screw law enforcers to the point continued employment, financial well being and actual freedom was at stake. 

Once everyone saw that writing on the wall, disengagement became the only way forward in order to make it to the finish line, and Chicago citizens ended up paying a hefty price for electing "progressives" and other morons. 

But we made it to the finish line with minimal damage.