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| Rahm (left), the tyrant mayor? |
It
is a thankless job for which everything that goes wrong will be blamed on you.
And there likely won’t be anything that goes right that you can take credit
for.
YOU’D
BE WALKING into a situation in which there is the potential for record levels
of violent activity to take place this year.
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| George, the baseball equivalent to Rahm? |
What
will make it worse is that the violent activity will be contained to select
neighborhoods – making it extremely easy for much of Chicago to ignore its
existence altogether.
And
as for those poor souls who live in those violent neighborhoods, they’re going
to be the base of people who will be watching your every move and are already
preparing themselves for the vocal campaign to denounce you as Mayor Rahm
Emanuel’s puppet cop and to demand your ouster from office.
You
also have as a boss a man who’s the political equivalent of George M.
Steinbrenner – the late owner of the New York Yankees known for his erratic
temperament that would fire people at a moment’s notice; which resulted in the
iconic baseball team going through a decade of mediocrity-to-suckiness. Is that
Chicago’s fate?
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| Martin became Steinbrenner's whipping boy as manager |
THE
ONLY REAL question is if Emanuel is Steinbrenner, who is the political
equivalent of Billy Martin – the Yankees manager whom Steinbrenner hired and
fired five times; and probably would have hired and fired yet again had he not
been killed in a Christmas Day auto accident.
In
short, I don’t envy the situation now faced by Eddie Johnson, the man who is
now interim superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.
The
man whom the Chicago Police Board will have to figure out a way to recommend to
Emanuel so that he can officially give him the top cop job on a permanent
basis.
The
question, of course, is what kind of sucker would allow themselves to be used
by the Chicago Police Department as a possible superintendent, just so the
police board can offer up three names to allow Emanuel to pick Johnson and
reject the other two.
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| Would Johnson let Emanuel treat him similarly? |
OF
COURSE, WE shouldn’t presume that Johnson would be a lock on getting the
permanent post.
Let’s
not forget that when the police board originally came up with three candidates
for the superintendent’s post, Emanuel favored among them Cedric Alexander of
Cobb County, Ga. – as in suburban Atlanta.
Depending
on whose report one wants to believe, Emanuel either offered the job to
Alexander or was on the verge of doing so when he rescinded the offer. It seems
that Alexander talked too much before the appointment could formally be
announced.
Who’s
to say that Johnson won’t somehow find a way to peeve Emanuel during his time
as interim superintendent – thereby ensuring a need to find yet someone else?
Could it turn out that the Chicago police superintendent position becomes one
that no self-respecting law enforcement official would think of taking?
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| Truly independent? Or absurd like Billy & George? |
Although
I’m sure to the 500 or so people who are killed and to their families, that is
high enough to be intolerable.
As
it is, the DNAInfo.com site for Chicago reported Tuesday about the 775 people
shot thus far in 2016 – 80 percent more than the number of people shot
(although not necessarily killed) during the first three months of 2015. Will
the summer heat we’ll soon be receiving wind up giving that figure a
record-setting jolt?
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