Mayor Lori Lightfoot proposes police department reforms after protests, but police union pushes back – ABC7 (Chicago)

Said FOP President John Catanzara, "I do not believe civilians should be training sworn officers, that's their job. We do not have it in the military or anything else like that. It's obviously military training military, police should be training police."
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nixit
3 years ago

First step: De-certify police unions. Bonus: It creates a philosophical conflict among the remaining public sector unions. If they support the de-certification of the police union, what does that say about their belief of workers to organize? If they don’t, they’ll appear to side against the necessary reforms.

debtsor
3 years ago

Political leader lesson #1: Never Bow To The Mob. Never.
 
Lori unfortunately, is bending over backwards, But it can never be enough.
 
And civilians training police? These rough communities have a 4th grade CPS education and barely read. What can they possibly offer to the police?
 
How about they stop committing crimes? Lori needs her brown shirts to arrest businesses that allow more than 6 people into their space.
 
Did you see that George Floyd had coronavirus too? how do we know he didn’t die of a coronavirus related heart attack?
 
 
 

Last edited 3 years ago by debtsor
MikeH
3 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

She had already bowed to the mob last year with the CTU. That set the precedent, and she’d only been in office a matter of months…

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