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Can Rahm Emanuel solve problem of violence, mistrust? Can anyone?
[Chicago Tribune] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
's Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn't in a difficult position. He's in an impossible position.
It's not his fault! Nobody can eat 1,000 bananas in a single setting. Why can't we just help OJ find the real murderer ?
He was once a national media darling, given warm wet kisses by the Beltway media that could see the ambition in the man and predicted a future for him outside Chicago.
And who were afraid of what he could do to them when he was Champ's right hand fist...
But those days are done. And now when it comes to the blood pooling on the streets of his city, he's all but lost.

Homicides are up. Shootings are up from last year too. Police are overworked and overstressed. Their morale is caving, and scandals and resentment brew over promotions tests that look as if they were handled the old-fashioned political way.
The police that Rahm has no respect for, and they've returned the lack of respect. In spades...
Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
 the neighborhoods on the South and West sides where most of the killings take place don't trust the cops, or the mayor.

And based on the increased shootings and killings already this year, Chicago is right to fear it will all get much worse.

The mayor is in a tough spot, some of it his own making, but much of it the result of decades of complete dysfunction of institutions, communities and families in the Democratic city that used to work.
It hasn't worked since the end of the '60s when Richard the Elder was mayor. We had a series of hacks and fools follow that man. Ritchie Short-Shanks set up the final fall, and it's occurring on Rahm's watch.
And cops don't trust him to have their backs.

The street gangs pull the triggers at ever increasing rates and mock the police. I hear stories of gangbangers in cars screeching their tires, driving doughnuts on the pavement with squad cars nearby, the riders leering, daring, mocking the cops who sit there.

That kind of thing doesn't make the news. But neighborhoods have eyes. The people see. They know what it means. The thugs are fearless now. The polls show that those who live in Chicago's war zones beg for the shootings to stop. But they don't want cops coming in rough.

Black Chicago doesn't trust the mayor, not since he suppressed that video of Laquan McDonald, the black teenager shot 16 times by Jason Van Dyke, a white police officer.
Posted by: Fred 2016-05-13
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=455723