Sanity Arrives at COPA?

Amazing what happens when you get rid of the anti-police AWFL in charge:

• Chicago’s new police oversight chief has repeatedly wiped out or dramatically scaled back recommendations to fire officers following pushback from the city’s top cop, the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ have found.

  The reversals by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability follow acrimony and infighting that roiled the agency, culminating in the resignation of its chief administrator, Andrea Kersten, after a tenure marked by internal accusations of mismanagement and anti-police bias.

  In March, Kersten was replaced on an interim basis by LaKenya White, who has worked for COPA since the agency was established in the wake of the police killing of Laquan McDonald in 2014.

  White’s administration has since walked back the disciplinary recommendations for six cops — four it said should be fired and two for whom it said firing should be considered.

  In each case, COPA adopted recommendations made by police Supt. Larry Snelling, who had publicly assailed Kersten over her handling of the police shootout that killed Dexter Reed.

As we stated months ago, COPA had a bad habit of e-mailing "investigative updates" to Larritorious's office. Then, mysteriously and completely coincidentally, certain reporters would file FOIA requests for Larritorious's e-mail records that were very Very VERY specific in their wording, keying in on the Subject Lines of e-mails, almost word-for-word if you can believe it. They would then write articles "revealing" internal communications, alleging cover-ups and all sorts of scandal.

This was a practice honed and perfected by the Sparklefart people in DC during the weaponization of government against citizens and political opponents. Kersten and her minions were using this to hamstring legit investigations, steer them in a political manner, and empower the "consent decree" people. Larritorious finally got fed up with it and (righteously) raised numerous objections that turned the political heat the correct direction.

If you want to read about some of the specific cases, click the link up top. You'll agree that most of the actions taken by Police were perfectly legal and in accordance with General Orders and Rules. The politicization was rampant.