Mayoral Skidmarks

If you're looking drive down crime numbers, you think you'd want at least a sizable portion of the police on your side. You know, the ones doing the work, arresting people (and folks) who are doing the actual killing. You wouldn't want to alienate them by talking out of your ass, giving credence to actual falsehoods, lying and slandering them and their representatives, you know, like Lightgroot did.

Now she's learning the Chicago Back Pedal:

• On Monday, the new mayor attempted to make the case that her remarks were taken out of context, while also insisting the source of the rumor was a credible one.
  
  “What I said was I heard a rumor and I hope that’s not true,” she said. “That piece hasn’t been picked up in the news media. And this is, I think, another example of context matters.”
  
  “We have to have every single officer on deck, focused on the issue, which is to keep our neighborhoods safe,” she added. “So I was concerned about it. The source who came to me was credible. But I caveated it because it was simply a rumor.”

"credible." Doesn't sound like she learned shit. The Slum Times "caveated" it, too, and still rated your claim as "false" probably because they couldn't believe you were so incompetent as to actually repeat it. And Special Ed, the man who didn't even apply to run the Department, couldn't put a polish on the turd Lori laid:

• Johnson said he didn’t give credence to the rumor about the FOP. “I never heard that rumor,” he said. “We swore an oath to serve and protect the city. That’s what I expect (officers) to do. But I never heard that rumor. I know that the mayor has full confidence in myself, and she’s showing her support for the Police Department.”
  
  He said he wasn’t concerned the mayor repeating such an unsubstantiated rumor could hurt officer morale. “Morale is what it is,” Johnson said. “I don’t think that — you heard what the mayor said. There’s absolutely no reason we should be giving this any brain time. There’s really not.”

Well Special Ed, you and your staff don't have any brain time to waste, so we aren't surprised you aren't dwelling on it. You have your hands full making excuses for crime, sitting on a testing scandal that put incompetents in positions of authority, more than a few exempt scandals regarding Social Security checks, sexual harassers getting chief spots in the burbs, and a crazy captain-in-training who can't follow orders.

We on the other hand, realize that if the mayor doesn't have the decency to keep her trap shut about bullshit "rumors" she probably got from the same people/folks claiming CPD was doing all the killing, and the bosses prove time and again to not have our actual backs.....well then we have to spend some time on it because it will color every decision we make on the street.

Hey Lori? Two things. (1) Do something about this: Eleven of the nineteen individuals arrested on gun charges over the Memorial Day weekend were on the street by Tuesday. Seven were previously convicted felons and six had prior gun offenses in their backgrounds. (2) Go fuck yourself.