A $95 Million, State-of-the-Art Police Academy Is Chicago’s Latest Political Battleground

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A $95 million, state-of-the-art police academy is Chicago's latest political battleground

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

I hate this one or the other activism. How is stopping this project going to improve community relations? The department would just develop more animosity towards the community. Just build the damn thing and instill some human decency into the cadets. The activists want to take the money and use it for "schools, mental health, and various community projects," but that $95 million dollars would be swallowed up by bureaucracy and consultants before the first shovel of earth was turned over, new school equipment purchased, or program drafted. May as well build something tangible that's already funded and go from there.

Edit - The damn thing is not even funded and the mayor has no idea how it could be fully funded. They are protesting against a bogeyman.

 

[Serious]

did I just read.

95 million down the drain and they still struggle addressing the most important issue, cultural change.....

Shining up shyt, trying to repackage it, doesn't change the fact that it's still shyt.....

 

[Colilluminati]

Chicago has stopped coming out for car accidents

 

[AZBeauty]

I hate this one or the other activism. How is stopping this project going to improve community relations? The department would just develop more animosity towards the community. Just build the damn thing and instill some human decency into the cadets. The activists want to take the money and use it for "schools, mental health, and various community projects," but that $95 million dollars would be swallowed up by bureaucracy and consultants before the first shovel of earth was turned over, new school equipment purchased, or program drafted. May as well build something tangible that's already funded and go from there.

Edit - The damn thing is not even funded and the mayor has no idea how it could be fully funded. They are protesting against a bogeyman.

instill some human decency in the cadets? who is supposed to do this, current officers?
So they should wait until its funded and then take action? Even though the city council opened up the floor to hear from constituents?

YOU don't live here, right?

They have closed over 50 schools in this city, mainly on the south and west sides. They havent developed or added any community centers in most of the most needed areas but yeah, go ahead and add more police at the tune of $95 million dollars when they already have adequate space at the current training facility.

Edit: The academy was understaffed, it found, and instructors were sometimes using outdated teaching materials that didn’t comply with legal standards about when an officer is justified in using lethal force.
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Yeah a new $95 million dollar training center in a community that the has seen no investment would help change this

“You can have the most up-to-date training facility in the world and still have officers that go out and consistently do the wrong thing if the content of the training isn’t appropriate,”

 

[Serious]

instill some human decency in the cadets? who is supposed to do this, current officers?
So they should wait until its funded and then take action? Even though the city council opened up the floor to hear from constituents?

YOU don't live here, right?

They have closed over 50 schools in this city, mainly on the south and west sides. They havent developed or added any community centers in most of the most needed areas but yeah, go ahead and add more police at the tune of $95 million dollars when they already have adequate space at the current training facility.

Edit: The academy was understaffed, it found, and instructors were sometimes using outdated teaching materials that didn’t comply with legal standards about when an officer is justified in using lethal force.
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Yeah a new $95 million dollar training center in a community that the has seen no investment would help change this

wow that's like the icing on the cake....

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

They should go door to door and ask residents if they want it in their neighborhood. Guarantee most long time residents would say yes. We allow activists whose groups are only tangentially interested in these issues to drive the narrative. When will the activists protest the teachers unions and the Chicago public school administration. You could very easily find 100M in project cost overruns and bloated bureaucracy right there.

 

[Anhur]

Sounds like martial law to me.

 

[AZBeauty]

They should go door to door and ask residents if they want it in their neighborhood. Guarantee most long time residents would say yes. We allow activists whose groups are only tangentially interested in these issues to drive the narrative. When will the activists protest the teachers unions and the Chicago public school administration. You could very easily find 100M in project cost overruns and bloated bureaucracy right there.

I grew up and my whole family still lives in this neighborhood, they dont need the training facility. There is already 2 police stations in this neighborhood including the blacksite called Homan Square which is 2 blocks from mothers house. Ask them would they rather they invest in the neighborhood, do something about the houses with the red X's scattered all throughout parts of this neighborhood, invest in the park (a friend of mines started a gofundme to put basketball hoops up on a court that they poured the concrete for but "ran out of money to complete, in this same PARK ) or would they want a police training facility with an outside shooting range.