This may or may not tie into the violence in Chicago.

This is the kind of thing that causes real problems in the culture that exists between the community and the police. If the potential for a crime does not exist in a community, there is absolutely no reason to place one there artificially and cause the community hardship.

The clashes did not take place between police and gang members it was one person against another. Currently, people witnessing the violence are not talking to police. (click here)

This is simply bad police work. Chicago needs a new police commissioner that doesn't worry about statistics to impress citizens for elections so much as someone familiar with Chicago and it's gangs. Chicago needs a native born police officer that can fill the shoes of the Police Commissioner and bridge all these problems with the communities.

The Chicago City Council has to be willing and able to work with the Police Commissioner to change the violent culture in these communities. That culture change won't happen if the people don't trust the police. Chicago has a long road to walk to take back this level of mistrust in a community afraid to talk to police. They are eons apart. 

August 8, 2018

By Jeremy Gorner

A joint investigation (click here) by Chicago police and the Norfolk Southern Railroad that used a truck loaded with goods and left parked in Englewood as a lure for potential thieves has come under fire after video of the operation went viral.

“This bait truck operation is an unacceptable and inappropriate use of police resources,” said Ald. Roderick Sawyer, 6th, chair of the City Council’s Black Caucus. “In a moment where police capacity is clearly under extreme strain, these sort of tactics are the last thing we should be spending manpower and energy on.”

A video shot earlier this month that was posted on the Facebook page of community activist Charles Mckenzie appears to show officers arresting a man after he allegedly broke into a “bait truck” in the Englewood neighborhood. People on the video argue that community members are being set up for arrest....