Chicago Police not responding to crime: “This is happening because Brandon Johnson got elected.”

[Fuzzy Bear]

Police departments in the US need a round of heavy reconstruction.

Brutal, ruthless, thorough, efficient reconstruction from the ground up.

"Brutal" and "Ruthless" describes perfectly the members of organized criminal gangs that are the chief beneficiaries of "Defund the Police".

I'm not confused about what the Chicago PD has been about over time, but Chicago has become a place where there are no safe neighborhoods.  The ONLY thing that enables Chicagoans from enjoying any reasonable level of safety is the Chicago PD.  And, yes, there is no excuse for NOT enforcing the law, especially if there were people being violently attacked.  To drive by that and take no action is not defensible.  But Chicago PD officers have served for 4 years now under a Mayor and a State's Attorney that (A) sympathize with those committing crimes, (B) dismiss charges against criminals that are valid and should not be dismissed, (C) see the criminals released after arrest under bail reform laws, and (D) entertain ways to put the onus of the problems where a criminal is arrested against his will on the officer to the point where officers have every reason to believe that their Government Leaders would prefer to prosecute them.  While I don't think it's acceptable behavior, I am certain that Chicago PD officers would be breaking up bloody fights and assaults and defending people with one eye to what sort of discipline they would receive (no matter how unjust the discipline) from a government that hates them.

Brandon Johnson does not want people to "demonize" young black males committing crimies in Chicago because they haven't had the opportunities in life others have had.  Aside from the fact that these young, mostly black (but not all) males (a disproportionate number of them being criminal gang members) are reeking havoc and terror on Chicago's citizens, there's the fact that many of the victima of these remorseless criminals are people who also have not had the same opportunities.  Does unequal opportunity justify robbery and murder?  And what lost opportunities are entirely the result of the decisions of these young men to engage in felonious criminality?

The "brutality" problem in Chicago is the behavior of it's criminals in the streets, many of which are gang members.   Period.  Chicago's police officers need the support of it's political leaders because they are the ONLY solution to the violence in the present moment.  The criminals need to know that the law will be enforced.  And let's be real:  Brandon Johnson and Kim Foxx are people whose lives and actions sent the exact opposite message in a time of legitimate public safety emergency in the whole of the City of Chicago.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Cops who refuse to do their jobs and deliberately ignore citizens in need should be thrown into prison. In a case as severe as the Uvalde cops that let all those kids get shot, I'd support a death sentence.

I don't care how tough the job is or how mean the local officials are, if you're a cop and you're unwilling to protect and serve, then the least you can do is stop mooching off the taxpayers you're refusing to defend. Absolutely disgusting, and shame on anybody who defends such dereliction of duty.

What about prosecutors that deliberately don't do their jobs?  Kim Foxx is elected to prosecute crimes.  She deliberately does not do so in selective cases due to concerns about "disparate impact" on favored groups and such. 

Police should intervene, period, when people are being assaulted, regardless of the nonfeasance of the prosecutor, because they can at least stop the injurious behavior.  That's better than not letting it go on.  But no one in their right mind would be a cop in Chicago today, because the situation is out of hand, and both Foxx and Johnson are squarely on the side of the criminals.

What is needed is investigations to see who is influincing these prosecutors to not do their jobs.  The biggest winners of their nonfeasance are criminal street gangs, which are large criminal enterprises.  If the people doing the shooting were folks that looked and sounded like the Mafia everyone here would be down for that.  What, exactly, is the relationship between the remorseless criminals that make up Chicago's criminal gangs and those that are supposed to arrest them and prosecute them, but do little but make apologia for them?

[Fuzzy Bear]

Cops who refuse to do their jobs and deliberately ignore citizens in need should be thrown into prison. In a case as severe as the Uvalde cops that let all those kids get shot, I'd support a death sentence.

I don't care how tough the job is or how mean the local officials are, if you're a cop and you're unwilling to protect and serve, then the least you can do is stop mooching off the taxpayers you're refusing to defend. Absolutely disgusting, and shame on anybody who defends such dereliction of duty.

What about prosecutors that deliberately don't do their jobs?  Kim Foxx is elected to prosecute crimes.  She deliberately does not do so in selective cases due to concerns about "disparate impact" on favored groups and such. 

Police should intervene, period, when people are being assaulted, regardless of the nonfeasance of the prosecutor, because they can at least stop the injurious behavior.  That's better than not letting it go on.  But no one in their right mind would be a cop in Chicago today, because the situation is out of hand, and both Foxx and Johnson are squarely on the side of the criminals.

What is needed is investigations to see who is influincing these prosecutors to not do their jobs.  The biggest winners of their nonfeasance are criminal street gangs, which are large criminal enterprises.  If the people doing the shooting were folks that looked and sounded like the Mafia everyone here would be down for that.  What, exactly, is the relationship between the remorseless criminals that make up Chicago's criminal gangs and those that are supposed to arrest them and prosecute them, but do little but make apologia for them?

I pretty regularly voice my opinions on prosecutor and how I consider them to be some of the most evil and destructive men and women in this country so you're not going to find me defending some bleeding heart prosecutor.

You say that no one in their right mind would be a cop in Chicago today. I agree with you and have a lot of sympathy for the many good cops who I'm sure have thrown in the towel and retired or moved on to a different city or a different career altogether. My sympathy does not extend to the cops who stay on the job for the paycheck but then refuse to protect and serve. They and the bad prosecutors are heads of the same beast and are directly responsible for the sad state of this country's major cities. They should be considered accessories to the crime wave sweeping the city and if they had any decency they would get on their knees and beg the innocent people of Chicago for forgiveness, and pray to God for mercy because they deserve none from the people whose lives they've destroyed through their inaction.

I agree with the underlined portion.  Will you support them if, in enforcing the law, they are subject to frivilous lawsuits, putting at risk all they have worked for?

Chicago PD deserve the support of law abiding people.  They are now being asked to work in a city which lacks real Civil Peace, and the Mayor and the State's Attorney is supportive of the criminals.