Our police is there to really weed out…er, weed users. And if it happens to waste a year of man-hours out of the bleeding pockets of Chicago municipal coffers (that these days is making up for a burgeoning shortfall by upkeeping the prohibitive employee tax and raising Downtown parking prices to a whooping $20 or more for a suburban couple making it into the city for a bite of a famous Chicagoland pizza), well, at least, said redoubtable organ managed to save its precinct from 180 grams of marijuana, trace of cocaine, and a flat-screen TV.
Shouldn't we citizens BE on patrol?
It, also, arrested 21 University of Illinois students and 4 non-students, resulting in yet more public funds being wasted on arraignments, public defendants, back and forth PR.
Sentencing for crimes as minor as this will be negligeable in any. But ask the precinct and it will have been a job well done!
I don’t know about you, but I personally would welcome some kind of public funds misappopriation hearings. Certainly, everyone has a right to their mistakes, but if these mistakes end up costing us, taxpayers, quite a bit of money while accomplishing no purpose to justify the expense, there should be a way to limit such investigations in the future.
It could be argued that such practice may prevent more than a few fruitful investigations from materializing, bt that is not at all what I am calling for here. Instead, after the fact, I would like for it to become common practice in cases as ultimately ridiculous as this for police officials to show just causes for initiating — and in fact, continuing the investigations, and if those end up holding water, well, that’s it, no harm done.
If, however, there has been a demonstrated and persistent lack of common sense, then, of course, there should be reparation — from the payback of public funds down to those on top of the decision making process losing their jobs.
After all, I understand they would if they DIDN’T take appropriate action. Shouldn’t it also hold true for the other extreme?
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