The recent Chicago Police incidents that have been caught on tape in Chicago seem to indicate that Chicago Police are poorly managed in terms of priorities and that leads to considerable questionable activities and a lack of accountability in the ward levels to regular citizen quality of life issue concerns.
There is constant finger pointing between 44th ward alderman Tom Tunney and the 19th district Chicago Police with no accountability. While Tom Tunney is responsible for approving the overgrowth of the Clark street bar area, he has done nothing to solve the parking problems and serious quality of life issues that he has created. Then there is Mayor Daley, a mayor that is not solving Chicago’s serious economic growth problems, ultimately his offices set the culture that allows a police force to be mismanaged and overburdened with paperwork to the point they frequently don’t file complaints that citizen’s request.
While the major media blames individual police officers, they should should look much higher at the Mayor and other upper administration management, it’s time for someone to run this city in the best interest of those who live in it.
Update: Bennett from Alderman Tunney’s office called me today to state that they are working on moving police resources from Rush street to Clark Street – as Clark Street does more dollar volume now. This would be a good first step. But items regarding transportation and crowd disbursement must also be addressed.