My take. In 1968 the Cops obviously "overdid it" and looked like stormtroopers. This time, they'll be forced to sit helplessly on the sidelines as the City and the Dem Party look like the administrations at Columbia, MIT and Harvard during the protests.
Millions of Americans will see Biden & team lose control of Chicago, a proxy for our border (& such).
Trump's brand has been enhanced by the legal actions taken against him and will again be boosted by the hijix to come in the Windy City.
BTW, strange how the border stuff kicked in around 2021? Haha.
As DNC Nears, Do Chicago Cops Have Any Leverage to Do Their Jobs?
By Michael Ledwith | June 9, 2024
Walk around Chicago, things are out of control.
Shoplifting gangs. Robbery crews. Wilding almost every weekend. A young father murdered outside his home on the Northwest Side. That couple attacked by gangs and beaten in Streeterville. She lost the baby she was carrying.
No one uses the El unless they must. Streets and highways are shut down by demonstrators with regularity. Arrests are made, but those arrested are immediately released.
Criminals on foot cannot be chased by cops. Carjackers cannot be pursued by cops. Felons with guns can walk around with impunity. Recently, gun and drug evidence found during a traffic stop cannot be used to charge criminals.
The Governor, the Cook County President, the State’s Attorney, prosecutors, all with media support and even encouragement, accept lawlessness and anarchy in Purge Chicago.
But you know who doesn’t accept lawlessness? You know who rejects this new Chicago?
Chicago’s cops.
Rank and file Chicago cops. Black, white, or brown Chicago cops. Male or female Chicago cops. Young and old Chicago cops.
Cops are told not to do their jobs. Cops have been stripped of their traditional powers. Cops are routinely accused of being thugs, murderers, racists and being incompetent.
Like all law-abiding Chicagoans, like all Americans, they’ve had enough.
But no one in state/county/city leadership seems to care as politicians pursue a radical restructuring of America.
Things could be different. For the first time since the ‘defund the police’, ‘social justice’ madness started, cops have leverage if they want to take advantage of it.
The Democratic National Convention, to be held in Chicago, is only 90 days away. Everyone remembers the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Mayhem and anarchy played out live on national TV. The Mayor of Chicago, the original Mayor Daley yelling anti-Semitic slurs at a Jewish Senator from the convention floor.
Cops beating college kids…live on TV. Hotel windows along Michigan Avenue smashed live on TV. Crowds chanting ‘The Whole World is Watching’ as the whole world watched…live on TV.
The plan:
The Chicago Police Union should hold a press conference next week and demand that the City immediately restore law enforcement’s ability to enforce the law. Allowing foot chases. Allowing car chases. Being able to use illegal guns and narcotics found during traffic stops as hard evidence of criminality. Let cops carry and use night sticks when, in their judgement, they are needed. Stun guns, and pepper spray, too.
Reinstate effective rules of engagement with violent criminals on the streets of Chicago. Demand that Mayor Johnson commit in writing to allow cops to do their jobs ensuring public safety,and the Cook County President and to charge, prosecute, and hold without bail, dangerous criminals.
Commitments needed to ensure a safe Democratic National Convention in 2024 and not a repeat of 1968.
Starting June 10. D-Day. The liberation of Chicago from crime and criminals. If not, cops, will limit their activities during the convention to current Preckwinkle/Foxx/Pritzker Purge Rules, Directive, .
To the letter.
The two can play Progressive games but if cops are allowed to be cops, by August Chicago will be a different city. Neighborhoods transformed from shooting galleries, street racing performance sites, and carjacking centers to what Chicago once was.
The Magnificent Mile, magnificent again. You might ask: why would Johnson/Pritzker/Preckwinkle/Foxx listen?
Because the DNC/Biden Administration certainly will be.
The leverage:
The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago could easily become the 1968 Democratic National Convention on steroids.
Stop Oil activists gluing their hands to Nancy Pelosi. Vandals throwing Malort on Nighthawks at the Art Institute.
All of Grant Park a barricaded No Go Zone inhabited by anarchists, River to the Sea terrorists,
Abortion activists, and 30,000 illegals from who knows where.
Lake Shore Drive shut down for weeks all the mayham and anarchy blogged, TikTok-ed, and Instagrammed live. Streaming videos in their millions. 24/7 coverage by MSNBC/CNN/CSPAN/ABC/NBC/CBS.
Arson. High end stores ransacked. The El sabotaged. Bricks through windows. Shot detectors overheating and melting down.
The Convention disrupted. Suspended. Cancelled. The Democrat Party and its slate of candidates up and down the ballot on display in real time.
And Joe?
Where will Joe be? What will he say? Will Joe march with the protestors? Will he sleep in the encampment?
Who will enforce the law? The National Guard? A bad look, eh?
The Army?
After a worse look.
Police Union leadership in this union city, in a union state, put together a ten-point plan to allow Chicago’s Finest to save Chicago.
Present it at a press conference on June 10th. Hand out copies to Democrat politicians in the wards. In the state. In Congress. Leverage the Democratic National Convention to bring back law and order and create a new Chicago.
It’s President Biden’s only chance.
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Frequent contributor Michael Ledwith is a former bag boy at Winn-Dixie, who worked on the Apollo Program one summer in college. A former U.S. Army officer, he ran with the bulls in Pamplona and saw Baryshnikov dance ’Giselle’ at the Auditorium Theater. Surfer. Rock and roll radio in Chicago. Shareholder, Christopher’s American Grill, London. Father. Movie lover—favorite dialogue: “I say he never loved the emperor.”
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