Due to severe cutbacks in the CAPS Program, the Community Policing Offices have been cut to where they now have only one Sgt. and two Patrolmen. Consequently, they have found it necessary to cut the CAPS meetings from monthly to bi-monthly, with even-numbered beats meeting in the even-numbered months, and vice versa.
The following letter to the editor appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 9-28-10:
The city's proposal to transfer police officers out of Community Alternative Police Strategy program functions will do a lot to ruin what has taken so long to build: strong police-community relations ("Many CAPS cops shifting to street," News, Sept. 17). Prior to the implementation of...
The following letter to the editor appeared in the Chicago Tribune's on line letters section, Sept. 24, 2010:
The Chicago Police Department is so understaffed that there are plans to remove officers from CAPS functions and put them on the streets. That being the case, why are our officers being assigned for crosswalk stings? If these stings are really necessary,...
Chicago Corp. Counsel Mara Georges appeared on the "Chicago Tonight" program (WTTW, PBS Chicago), to defend Mayor Richard M. Daley's new gun control ordinance. Viewers were asked to submit their comments.
The first paragraph of Larry Nazimek's letter (complete letter below) were read on the air.
The following Letter to the Editor appeared in the Sept. 3, 2010, edition of the "Chicago Reader."
Do What Must Be Done
Mayor Daley has "apologized" for the "implementation" of our parking meter debacle ["Fail," parts one, two, and three, by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke), but he still won't own up to the financial failure it is for the city and how it...
The following Letter to the Editor appeared in the Oct. 29, 2010, edition of the "Chicago Reader."
To the editor:
Solving Chicago's budget crisis is indeed difficult, but the problem will only get worse for future mayors when there are not more cuts to be made and the money from the tollway and parking meter leases will have been spent.
The following article was the cover story in the "Chicago Reader," March 11, 2010. Note the portrait of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley as King George III....
