That is the new normal in Chicago. CWB Chicago brings us As CPD's most violent districts lose hundreds of officers, a tweeted photo offers a peek behind the curtain.
There is a Twitter photo of Chicago's 911 center meant to reassure, but it shows one of the violent districts in Chicago where 911 dispatch has a backlog, where most of the call have waited longer than "acceptable." Which means 10 minutes in most cases.
The yellow calls have been waiting so long, they’ve stretched beyond the city’s time limit for dispatch — that’s 10 minutes for most important calls. And the red line? Oh, that call is a “crisis intervention” case. That call is yellow, too.
Why is that? Well in part because Chicago PD Superintendent Brown has reassigned a bunch of officers to city-wide special units.
It may seem counterproductive for police leaders to remove cops from the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods to work on citywide teams. Of course, a simple solution would be to put citywide cops back in the districts they came from. So, of course, that’s the last thing CPD’s leaders will do. Instead, they’ve hatched a couple of harebrained ideas.
Click thru for the details. There are charts of district staffing levels, info on the dead and wounded, and more.
Chicago really was a wonderful city at one time.
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