Parade Aftermath

So what happened after the parade this past Sunday? A lot of comments pretty much lambasting the command staff:

• You want to hear something funny, turn on your police radio. Car 5 aka Jon Hein running the post pride parade debacle. What a useless moron. The parade ended at 1600, it is now 0100. This dumbass has all the manpower possible with days off cancelled and 12 hours shifts yet after 9 hours still doesnt have this under control. (SP)-Hein-(LESS) will prob continue to follow the people around for 4 more hours too.
• Hein should be dumped after last night. A total disaster with no preparation or leadership. Get some people in there that were the police. Not your side piece and house mouses
• The shit show last night is completely on Chief Hein. We had adequate resources, the problem is he just will not arrest people, he lets them walk around, just like all the protesters. Lack of experience and balls

All that talk about how police "can't arrest their way out of a situation" is just so much bullshit. A couple arrests, even a few dozen, stifles the baser instincts of people who don't want to spend the night in custody. 

Regardless, after seeing this photo of the aftermath (thanks to all who sent it in):

....we're more convinced than ever that this and every other parade needs to be moved to Grant Park for neighborhood safety, available parking ($$$), crowd control, equipment storage and clean-up reasons.

As an added bonus, Conehead could bid it out to some connected company and remove the incompetent police supervision almost entirely from the equation. Plenty of opportunity for some profit-skimming in there somewhere.