In a piece of writing remaining week on police morale, Mayor Lori Lightfoot touted that morale is excellent as a result of all through a 10-day duration in June, CPD took 600 weapons off the road.
That’s the very first thing that destroys police morale — the truth that the mayor and the highest brass attempt to “quantify” crime in line with mere metrics. How many weapons did you grasp? How many stops did you are making? How many site visitors tickets did you write? Ludicrous.
Here’s my query to them: If CPD seized 600 weapons, are there with reference to 600 arrests to head with them? There had higher be. Because weapons, an inanimate object, can also be changed through the unhealthy guys, who will simply proceed the mayhem. So, what number of arrests have been made? What have been the fees? How many arrestees have been convicted felons, on probation or parole, on house tracking or routine offenders?
Getting weapons off the road is slightly a moot level. You must get the shooters off the road. And with a rising animosity from either side towards police and police paintings, that’s no longer about to occur quickly. So the cycle of violence will proceed.
In the period in-between, I’ll be looking forward to the ones arrest numbers.
Robert Stasch, retired CPD lieutenant, O’Hare
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Wear a masks. Vote.
To some Americans: I’m ashamed of you. You forget about and ridicule being concerned about others. You are living as regardless that your freedom does no longer come with accountability and sacrifice. You act like self-serving youngsters as a substitute of mature adults who reason why and act in step with science and with the capability to be told and perceive.
Those of you who is not going to respectfully put on mask and put into effect social distancing are doubtlessly dooming others to struggling and demise. Those of you who beef up a do-nothing-except-for-self particular person as president appear to suppose you might be nonetheless within the college cafeteria, in need of to sign up for the bullies. You have watched your nation turn into remoted from the remainder of the arena.
The so-called President goals of being a dictator. But within the United States, that may by no means occur as a result of we will discuss out and vote, and since some Americans consider in our nation and have fun our doable although our president, his management and this virus go away us little or no to have fun.
With this virus, the place has your fear for anyone as opposed to your self long past? Help one some other. Pay it ahead. Make us complete once more as a being concerned, accountable and trustworthy country full of respectful variations and the satisfaction in being an American.
Please — put on a masks, observe social distance and take our nation again through balloting in November.
Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow, Lakeview
That Facebook middle…
Facebook plans to construct an $800 million information middle in DeKalb. I wish to know if Facebook Vice President Rachel Peterson ever regarded as the West or South Side of Chicago for this middle?
These spaces have get right of entry to to the similar qualities that DeKalb provides, and extra.
Michael Lorenzi, Oak Park