Led by Deputy Mayor of Community Safety Garien Gatewood and Chief Equity Officer Carla Kupe, the task force will examine “the city’s existing policies and make appropriate recommendations to root out anyone who belongs to a hate group,” according to the mayor’s office. The mayor agreed to form the task force “because he believes that white supremacists and extremists have no place in our city’s law enforcement or in any city department."
I wonder if groups like the Latin Kings, Gangster Disciples or any of the other gangs in Chicago will be weeded out of the police department. Probably not. Hell they might even get a diversity award.
Gangs are as integrated in these communities as lawyers are in upper-middle class white communities. Everyone the ‘hood knows a gang banger – they are your siblings, cousins, friends, neighbors, upstanding community members, etc. Everyone is either in the gang, knows a gang member or is tangentially involved in a gang, just as in upper middle class white communities, everyone either is a lawyer, has a lawyer family member (or multiple), or lives near one, knows one, works with one…You can’t root them out in either case, they are unfortunately just there.
Bob Green
1 year ago
Will this include those in or associated blm and antifa ??? They are also hate groups .
Deb
1 year ago
Task groups in IL exist only to hire their friends. Never accomplish any but to increase spending.
Hello, Indiana!
1 year ago
Again, who will determine what constitutes membership to a hate group or what is considered one? Will it be Proud Boys ( started as a joke, btw), MAGA, the Oath Keepers, the Fraternal Order of the Moose? This is a thinly veiled attempt to purge the ranks of the CPD and replace them with holistic, healing peace keepers and violence interruptors, plain and simple.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Keel Da Boer
I wonder if groups like the Latin Kings, Gangster Disciples or any of the other gangs in Chicago will be weeded out of the police department. Probably not. Hell they might even get a diversity award.
Don’t forget BLM or the New Black Panthers!
Gangs are as integrated in these communities as lawyers are in upper-middle class white communities. Everyone the ‘hood knows a gang banger – they are your siblings, cousins, friends, neighbors, upstanding community members, etc. Everyone is either in the gang, knows a gang member or is tangentially involved in a gang, just as in upper middle class white communities, everyone either is a lawyer, has a lawyer family member (or multiple), or lives near one, knows one, works with one…You can’t root them out in either case, they are unfortunately just there.
Will this include those in or associated blm and antifa ??? They are also hate groups .
Task groups in IL exist only to hire their friends. Never accomplish any but to increase spending.
Again, who will determine what constitutes membership to a hate group or what is considered one? Will it be Proud Boys ( started as a joke, btw), MAGA, the Oath Keepers, the Fraternal Order of the Moose? This is a thinly veiled attempt to purge the ranks of the CPD and replace them with holistic, healing peace keepers and violence interruptors, plain and simple.