Friday, October 19, 2007

ST: Aldermen: Daley needs to give up names of cops

This issue won't go away. It will develop into a confrontation between the Mayor and City Council. And Sauerberg ought to be telling Illinois if he were Senator he would have called Fitzgerald in much earlier. From the ST,

If Mayor Daley continues to keep secret the names of Chicago Police officers most often accused of excessive force, he may be compelled to reveal them by a rare City Council order, four aldermen said Friday.

Aldermen Toni Preckwinkle (4th), Ricardo Munoz (22nd), Ed Smith (28th) and Joe Moore (49th) said they have lined up 28 votes, two more than they need to force Daley’s hand.

But, the aldermen have decided to take a softer approach before setting up a confrontation between the legislative and executive branches not seen since the Council Wars power struggle that raged during the 1980s.

On Monday, they plan to file a so-called “petition to intervene,” asking U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow to order that the names be released.

7 comments:

Skeeter 9:35 AM  

This post really does show Baar's ignorance of the process.

Most complaints of POs are, in fact, fabricated by the bad guys who want to take good cops off the street.

Naming the POs will help every gangbanger in the city choose a target.

The upside to naming the POs is???
You got me. I don't see any upside. Those POs are known to their commanding officers anyway. If the process if bad, fix the process (as Daley is attempting to do). But don't make it open season on Chicago's cops, as you want to do.

Anonymous,  11:03 AM  

Yeah. Good idea!!! Let's endanger cops and their families because the St. Charles Green Party thinks it will help.....well....they're not sure exactly.

1. Release the names of hard working police officers, in hopes that either they or their families will will get murdered.
2. ??????
3. Profit!!

Anonymous,  2:24 PM  

Ricardo Munoz was caught with cocaine and weapons but did not get a felony and his record was sealed. Ricardo Munoz was a well known cocaine dealer at Norhtern Illinois University. These are matters of Public record. Ricardo Munoz admitted to the media and states publicly he was a member of the Latin King Street gang. However, former Latin King street gang members state that he was not a full member but what is called a "flake" or wannabee--he was not tough enough to be a member.

Ricardo "Little Rikki" Munoz's excuse for admitting to being in a street gang was that he came from a tough neighborhood. But his family first came from Mexico to Taylor Street and than to Little Village where they had a lucrative photo shop where his dad (now on TV and in Federal Court) was reported to have had made money for years making fake IDs. They had money and would be considered rich in Little Village but by any objective standard upper middle class. Munoz went to Catholic High School. His sister went to the elite St. Ignatius High School.
If Munoz joined a gang it was not because he came from a poor family or did not have educational opportunities. That is an insult to the many hard working Mexican Americans who did not join gangs, do drugs, deal drugs and got educations and are professionals without drug and gun charges or even those who got out of trouble and now have felony's because of the new gun laws and were not as lucky as Munoz to get a sealed record.

The problems in Munoz's ward are not because of cops--even the bad ones. Munoz, while in Israel trying to run for Congress, had a multiple shooting in a Pizza shop in his ward. His ward is like Chicago during Capone days or maybe in the parts of Israel he was visiting that have random terrorism on a regular basis. Justifying gang membership and not repudiating gangs, illegal activity or drug dealing is what is hurting his community.

Anonymous,  3:05 PM  

Wait a minute. What does the St. Charles Green Party have to do with this post?

Anonymous,  9:43 PM  

Munoz is one of the most corrupt alderman in the city and thats saying something. His family makes huge money selling fake IDS to illegals these packages include fake drivers lic SSn and if you cough up enough cash a a duplicate of someone s credit card.

Anonymous,  8:02 PM  

See this video, very funny http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7438447024847100504 How could Mayor Daley keep a straight face after allowing the Blacks in Chicago beaten like that. That is Clout Abuse

Anonymous,  10:15 PM  

Flint Taylor and the corrupt racist commie PLO also is stealing tax dollars with these leftist alderman.

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