AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago
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Seriously though, as the article itself says, the problem was never even to identify these "crews". It was about the political will to do something about it.
A big part of the problem is the police unions, which routinely prevent leaders in the police departments from firing or otherwise disciplining police officers who routinely cause problems.
A big part of the reason there is no political will to do something about these "crews" is because the leadership knows the unions will make it as difficult as possible to get rid of them. So why spend the political capital if you're going to get stymied at every step anyway?
So I think that responsibility should be entirely shifted outside of the org, probably to the state or county district attorneys. So it isn't police policing themselves. And empirical tools like this are a great way for outsiders to monitor broader patterns and practices that appear problematic.
Your proposal to shift responsibility for "policing the police" up to elected officials means weakening police unions, does it not? Is there a political body out there that's even more fundamentally in support of police autonomy than police unions?
Also an FYI police cannot strike! See https://grahamfactor.substack.com/p/im-sticking-to-the-polic... for an overview.
Well. You can call their bluff. You want to fire a cop for their bullshit and the rest of the cops say well were gonna strike. Then you say okay go for it. You stop paying them and you start hiring new cops to replace them.
This is expensive but legal.