By law city workers have to live in the city. This includes teachers, firemen, and cops and whomever. It seems like the cops resent it the most. They tend to live in enclaves in the far northwestern and southwestern parts of the city, bungalows and tidy lawns and all that.
I was reading about a cop festival they were holding in Jefferson Park Wednesday. I will try to explain it, but here is the article if you want to read it. https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/9/16/21439996/chicago-police-rally-reform-fraternal-order-fop-sposato-taliaferro-napolitano-jefferson-park
It was a Back the Blue thing. A neighborhood of cops celebrating themselves. the policeman is your friend thing, nothing political.
But then this guy Catanzara, who I've spoken of before, a bad cop who has many citations, and to my dismay has been elected head of the Fraternal Order of Police. To him any time there is an incident the cops are always, every single time, in the right. And any critic of the cops' behavior is an anarchist, or whatever, trying to tear down civilization.
So anyway he got involved in this and sort of turned it into a Trump rally. I expect Trump is pretty popular with a lot of cops, but most of the citizens of the city hate him. A couple alderman that were going to attend, figuring that they would just make a little speech, maybe pin a medal, stuff like that, backed out when they learned it was to be a Trump rally,
Catanzara blew his top, accused the mayor of making them back off, and then saying he was going to find candidates to run against the aldermen who backed out.
This is insurrection, Unions back candidates all the time, but it is just money and it is just for union stuff. It's not a matter of do you back electricians or carpenters, and they don't try to take over the city government.
I guess it is a hollow threat because I can't imagine the sort of people that Catanzara would get to run would have a chance of upsetting a sitting alderman.
The cops, outside their enclaves in the corners of the city are not that popular and we are paying their salaries. So what the fuck is going on?
I've tried to talk to that neighbor cop of mine but ran into a brick wall when he claimed that Laquan McDonald was lunging at a cop when the cop shot him, and the video showed the opposite. Old Dog's brother-in-law is a cop, I wonder if he has ever talked to him about cop stuff. I am not asking him to reveal anything, just wondering if he had ever talked to him.
There is animosity between the cops and the ghetto. It's not as simple as black vs white because some black cops are brutal too, and ghetto people hate the cops because of the way they act. If the cops would admit it when they were wrong, and allow the cop who did wrong to be punished they would get along better with the cops.
Occam would not be happy with Beagles's segregationist approach. The sentence is simple but the implementation would be anything but. What would the boundaries be, how would the income be shared, what degree of autonomy would the ghetto have, would there be separate laws for all these different cities Beagles wants to break up the city into? Very impractical. And there is something disturbing in the way all his grandiose plans to solve something so often is based on separating the races.
A house standing is simpler and stronger than a house divided against itself. And come to think of it, that goes for Catanzara too.
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