{"id":41908,"date":"2021-04-22T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41908"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:04:23","slug":"the-inmates-are-running-the-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41908","title":{"rendered":"The Inmates Are Running The Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The New York Post<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

Police officers in\u00a0Chicago<\/a>\u00a0may soon require permission from a supervisor before pursuing a suspect on foot, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lightfoot promised to disclose details \u201csoon\u201d about a\u00a0police<\/a>\u00a0policy change, Fox 32 Chicago reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNo one should die as a result of a foot chase,\u201d the mayor said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police methods have faced new scrutiny recently following the release last week of video footage from the March 29 police shooting death of 13-year-old\u00a0Adam Toledo<\/a>. The case has sparked new debate on police use of deadly force.<\/strong><\/p>\n

City Alderman Brian Hopkins told FOX 32 that city police already need a superior\u2019s permission to launch a vehicle chase for a suspect. A new policy on foot chases would simply make the same policy apply to all chases.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At least the City Alderman acknowledged what the result of that policy might be:<\/p>\n

Hopkins acknowledged the most obvious criticism that such a policy would likely attract: that a suspect on foot could be long gone in the time it would take an officer to get the required approval.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This sort of thinking does not make our cities safer–it makes them more dangerous. If a bank robber has a getaway car a block away and can outrun the officer, he is home free.<\/p>\n

The death of Adam Toledo is tragic, but there are still a few facts that have to be considered when evaluating the situation. What was a 13-year old doing out a 2 am? Why did a 13-year old have a gun? Was the 13-year old a gang member? Did the 13-year old act in a way that was a threat to the policeman’s life?<\/p>\n

I truly believe that the first problem we have to deal with is the 13-year old probable gang member out on the street at 2 am. I suspect that if we deal with that problem, many other problems will be solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The New York Post reported: Police officers in\u00a0Chicago\u00a0may soon require permission from a supervisor before pursuing a suspect on foot, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday. Lightfoot promised to disclose details \u201csoon\u201d about a\u00a0police\u00a0policy change, Fox 32 Chicago reported. \u201cNo … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,13688,13687,1345,8321],"class_list":["post-41908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot","tag-foot-chase","tag-police","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41909,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41908\/revisions\/41909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}