More Stops! More Stops!

It's what the bosses demanded.

And now they're all stripped and the bosses are nowhere to be found:

• Three officers assigned to a controversial tactical team accused of unlawfully stopping and searching drivers along Chicago's Michigan Avenue have had their police powers stripped, a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department confirmed to the ABC7 I-Team.

The entire article is a bare bones bit of "reporting" and doesn't even touch on the demands of the command staff who used the carrot of plain clothes and avoiding midnight shifts to generate Constitutionally questionable numbers for to make them look good in the eyes of fellow gold stars.

How long has "Stay Fetal" been a refrain here? How many warnings were related to everyone from readers who had been through the meat grinder? And how many times does history have to repeat before a lesson is learned?