Despite Progress, Police Chief Still Struggles
The next few months of warmer weather will be crucial for Jody Weis, whose job running the police department is as close as it gets to “Mission Impossible” in Chicago.
Ever since he took over the department in early 2008, Superintendent Weis’s assignment has been to calm police officers who are angry at many things, including working without a contract since 2007 and a federal misconduct prosecution that put a Chicago policeman in prison with a 40-month term.
Morale problems facing the chief will not be helped by a federal arbitrator’s recommendation Friday that the police get a 10 percent raise over five years, far less than the 16 percent Mayor Richard M. Daley offered during contract talks in 2008.
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That article in the NYT was so sanitized I doubt that the reporter even bothered to interview patrol officers.
The Chicago Trib had another news item on the same Superintendent: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/04/police-announce-anti-violence-plans.html
Sounds great, except for the fact that police officers on the street have been doing this long before he arrived.
Specifically I meant the targeting, not the computer analysis. The computer analysis sounds like a great idea, but let’s not forget the wealth of information that the guys and gals who work those districts and sectors already know, and the tactical strategies that are already being employed to target certain areas.