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* Paul Vallas is right. If this isn’t a typical Washington, DC approach to a very real problem, I don’t know what is…

Mayoral candidate Bill Daley wants to create a Cabinet-level crime-fighting post and invest $50 million per year to staff a new City Hall department dedicated to reducing violence, he said Thursday. […]

A new deputy mayor for violence prevention who reports to the mayor is needed in order to put Chicago’s crime epidemic on the front burner, Daley said. “I want a deputy mayor every day in my face talking about what’s getting done to address this,” he said.

Create a redundant bureaucracy and fill it with bureaucrats. Brilliant!

* Instead of dumping money into a press-pop, maybe he should use it for this sort of stuff…

• [Daley] will work with local funders to raise additional money each year to scale promising diversion programs like Chicago CRED and Heartland Alliance’s READI program that put at-risk youth on a path to legitimate work through training and intensive counseling.

* These ideas aren’t bad, though…

• Get ahead of the consent decree by requiring 40 hours of annual training for all police officers starting in 2019 in areas such as the use of force, de-escalation tactics, implicit bias, and understanding reasonable suspicion. […]

• Allocate additional funds to fully staff gang units with talented officers skilled in gathering intelligence. […]

• De-politicize and make transparent the promotion process within the Police Department, providing regular opportunities for good officers to build new skills and move into leadership positions.

But the only mental health approach is for police, not the community at large.

Thoughts?

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:23 pm

Comments

==Mayoral candidate Bill Daley wants to create a Cabinet-level crime-fighting post==

As Chicago Bars said on Twitter last night, ain’t that just your police commissioner?

Comment by Arsenal Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:31 pm
–Mayoral candidate Bill Daley wants to create a Cabinet-level crime-fighting post and invest $50 million per year to staff a new City Hall department dedicated to reducing violence, he said Thursday.–

Crime fighter Bill Daley and his Unelectables?

Yeah, Bill’s really tuned to the neighborhood streets these days, huh? North Michigan Avenue, East Chestnut Street, North Astor Street…..

I wonder if there’s an existing city department, charged with public safety throughout the city, in which additional personnel from an extra $50 million might do some good?

Comment by wordslinger Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:34 pm
We don’t need more bureaucrats, we don’t need more research.

We need more social workers in schools, especially elementary.

We need to restore community mental health.

We need to make professional child care universal.

We need to make serious investments in parks, after school programs, and neighborhood infrastructure.

And we need stronger federal laws to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals.

Comment by Radical Trolling Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:35 pm
Create a redundant bureaucracy and fill it with bureaucrats. Brilliant!

Couldn’t said it better myself

Comment by PP Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:37 pm
What’s the Police Superintendent suppose to do now, be all ceremonial, walk a beat, give counsel to a person doing his job at the cabinet level…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:38 pm
Vallas fumbled this one badly. CPD needs to not only retool and retrain, it needs to end the merit promotion program, start addressing the mental health needs of the Dept., and reduce the layers of ineffective and expensive mismanagement inside CPD and the City itself.

Comment by revvedup Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:40 pm
Daley’s proposal to eliminate CPD’s “merit” promotions is a double-edge sword. Doing so would improve rank-and-file morale and eliminate some political shenanigans. But it would also make it harder to ensure minorities are better represented in command positions — which is kinda important right now.

Comment by Roman Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:40 pm
• De-politicize and make transparent the promotion process within the Police Department, providing regular opportunities for good officers to build new skills and move into leadership positions.

G Mac was the beginning of Merit Promotion system in CPD. Granted it’s been taken to new heights, but glad to see he’s come around.

Comment by W.S. Wolcott Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:45 pm
William Daley promises to be exactly as effective a mayor as he was a chief of staff.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:53 pm
One thing that sets NYC and LA apart from Chicago when it comes to addressing violence is that those cities have coordinated approaches - including fully staffed offices - to overseeing violence prevention across agencies. It shouldn’t take anything close to $50 million, but we can’t take the comprehensive approach we need without some investment in an infrastructure to support it.

Comment by Change Agent Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:15 pm
Both NYC and Los Angeles have similar cabinet level offices. Both have had major crime reductions. It isn’t a bad idea.

Comment by Wentworth Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:26 pm
Everything Radical Trolling said, along with the understanding that this will not solve the violence overnight. But it will solve it. We’re talking generational trauma and divestment. The next mayor is going to have to make the fixes and then know that they may still see little to no improvement during their term. And they may lose the next election. But that next generation of kids and parents and the City will be better off.

On another note, the thought of a third Daley fills my throat with bile. Some poor woman asked me to sign his petitions, and I was so overwhelmed I just said, “oh god no way.” Have your brother pay us back the rainy day meter money he up and spent on his way out of office, Bill, and we’ll talk.

Comment by lakeside Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:28 pm
===It isn’t a bad idea.===

If there is $50 million lying around somewhere, they’d be better off hiring 500 more cops. Yes, there should be a cabinet-level public safety position, but it need not be a new position. They could simply reorganize the Mayor’s staff and top CPD staff to make it work.

Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:29 pm
===A new deputy mayor for violence prevention who reports to the mayor is needed in order to put Chicago’s crime epidemic on the front burner, Daley said. “I want a deputy mayor every day in my face talking about what’s getting done to address this,” he said.===

What is the new role of the Police Superintendent?

That’s like #3 or #4 on the Superintendent’s list of duties I’m guessing.

So Bill Daley wants a bureaucrat to yell at him things his superintendent would probably be already telling him, and cutting out the superintendent, because how can Daley justify having two people redundantly doing the same thing and beat patrol officers are wondering why the administration is top heavy.

That how that works, or…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:30 pm
There is a Deputy CoS for public safety. Also, the police training is needed, but it is not going to get a jump start on Tue consent decree. It is probably the lowest hanging fruit in the consent decree.

Comment by Three Dimensional Checkers Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:35 pm
Daley’s got some great stuff about reducing the flow of illegal guns from outside of Chicago and his quote in today’s Chicago Tribune is right on: “There’s no excuse anymore not to show leadership on this. I get the difficulty for downstate legislators, but call the question.”

Comment by west wing Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:39 pm
OW:

The Police Superintendent is not going to marshal DFSS, CPS, CHA, and other non-city government agencies to help fight this problem but an emissary from the Mayor’s Office (with that cache) can and will.

It has been done before when Mayor Daley was in charge. Rahm was particular inept at that aspect of it, conceptually, which is part of the reason crime is so bad right now relative to the Daley years.

Comment by Wentworth Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:41 pm
===It has been done before when Mayor Daley was in charge. Rahm was particular inept at that aspect of it, conceptually, which is part of the reason crime is so bad right now relative to the Daley years.===

“crime is so bad right now relative to the Daley years.”

Really?

Please cite. I thought crime is at record lows. I’m wrong?

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:43 pm
===Daley’s got some great stuff about reducing the flow of illegal guns from outside of Chicago===

Meh. His brother was infamous for doing that. Call a press conference in DC or Springfield, demand action and then walk away.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:46 pm
The suntimes says there was a drop, according to CPD

https://tinyurl.com/yas2cz8d

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:47 pm
= (with that cache)=

So it is all about “cache” now? Sounds a lot like “politics” to me.

Maybe that is, itself, a big part of the problem.

Comment by JS Mill Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:47 pm
===So it is all about “cache” now? Sounds a lot like “politics” to me.

Maybe that is, itself, a big part of the problem.===

Yep.

“We need window dressing, ‘cache’… “

If it’s a stunt, just call it a stunt.

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:49 pm
Selling the parking meter revenue was a crime. Let’s start there.

Comment by Cheryl44 Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:54 pm
Bill Daley isn’t Rich Daley. Bill Daley is also calling for independent maps for alderman, term limits for the mayor, no fundraising for the mayor’s first three years, no campaign staff can turn around and lobby the city.

Bill Daley isn’t Rich Daley.

Comment by West Wing Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 2:40 pm
===Bill Daley is also calling for independent maps for alderman, term limits for the mayor, no fundraising for the mayor’s first three years, no campaign staff can turn around and lobby the city.===

Those things sound nice, but Bill Daley isn’t going to be mayor, so easy for him to say.

Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 2:48 pm
Boy, getting that job sounds like a pretty sweet gig. Sit around and have meetings where you talk about the next meeting. Then, tell people some stuff they already know and call it a day. Where do I sign up?

Comment by Duke of Normandy Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 3:19 pm
===Bill Daley isn’t Rich Daley. ===

You keep saying that. Maybe people will eventually believe it.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 3:22 pm
;)

Comment by West Wing Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 3:30 pm
Our big city counterparts in NY and LA did the same thing. Some may call it a bureaucracy, others more informed may call it an accountability structure that can coordinate the most effective responses.

If you think hiring more police get it done or think that this is the job of the police commissioner, you might be a little off on what type of preventive solutions are needed….its way outside of a jail cell after someone has already done something wrong.

Comment by Dee4Three Monday, Nov 19, 18 @ 10:49 am