Someone Else Noticed

An Op-Ed on the CWB site by Chief Tom Weitzel (Ret.), Riverside, Illinois:

• Nine calls to 911. A woman raped at gunpoint inside her own home. Hours passed before Chicago police dispatched an officer. Nine calls. No available police officers. No immediate response. Let that sink in. This is not simply a delayed police response. This is a catastrophic failure of one of government’s most fundamental responsibilities: protecting its citizens.

  This horrific incident may have gone under the radar for most Chicagoans, but it certainly did not go unnoticed by me. As someone who spent nearly four decades in law enforcement, I find this failure indefensible. Every police chief, every elected official, and every Chicago resident should be outraged. If nine calls to 911 following a violent sexual assault cannot produce a timely police response, something is fundamentally broken in Chicago’s public safety system. And somebody in a position of authority had better start answering for it.

All well and good the retired chief noticed - but will voters? The mainstream media is doing it's part to bury the story via non-reporting because there's no actual way to blame the CPD for manpower shortages - those come directly from City Hall.