CHICAGO — Serious crime is up but arrests are down in Chicago, and some police officers say they are working the streets less aggressively out of resentment toward their new chief and fear of being second-guessed by him.
"People are doing just what they need to get through" their shifts, said Lt. Robert Weisskopf, president of the Chicago police lieutenants union, "and not any extra."
In addition to making fewer arrests, police are seizing fewer guns and frisking gang members less often than they did before Superintendent Jody Weis was brought in to clean up a department embarrassed by a string of brutality cases, according to interviews, statistics provided by police and an internal document obtained by The Associated Press.
Crime up. Arrests down. Bad feelings in the department.
Yep.
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I'm no Jody Weis fan, but if the cops are pissed off because they're to be held accountable for police brutality, hell with 'em.
Federal reformer, Chicago cops, rampant crime??
Sounds like the Capone and Eliot Ness years...
I wonder who's gonna win this time?
Highly recommended daily reading :
Unofficial CPD blog
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
I've been checking it out for close to 2 years now.
15 months the police have been without contract. Manning is officially claimed to be @ 13,500 but I keep seeing 9,500 on the blog. Moral in the Dept is at an all time low.
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