A Quick Note to the Chicago Police Department on Their Struggle to ‘Build Community’ with Citizens They Terrorized.
A poetic response to a Chicago Tribune story about Chi-town’s police failure in implementing a federal consent degree.
In its latest report, released Tuesday, the federal monitor overseeing the federal consent decree the department is under concluded Chicago police don’t fully understand the various ways the department can interact with the public, or even how its current community-policing programs complement each other. - excerpt of Chicago Tribune article: ‘Latest consent-decree report hits Chicago police leadership in key areas: Community policing and building community trust.’
When all your training has really taught you is how to harass…detain…intimidate…interrogate…entrap…kick-door…tear gas…pepper spray…wield a baton…coerce…cover-up…lie…arrest…lie some more…bully…shoot…shoot…reload…shoot some more…occupy…terrorize…
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