Chicago, IL—Thor Soderberg was a police academy instructor currently assigned to deal with South side Chicago gangs and violence. Late this afternoon while leaving a police building a local thug snatched Soderberg’s service pistol and shot him in the head killing him.
The offender attempted an armed robbery nearby with the gun and was shot and wounded by other officers. The suspect has non-life threatening wounds. The yet to be identified thug reportedly has an extensive criminal record of mostly drug related crimes.
Soderberg leaves a wife and many friends who are devastated by this despicable and cowardly and racist driven act.
My thoughts tonight are with departed role model, his family and friends.
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September 27, 2008
Daley: lack of new police not affecting public safety
Mayor Richard Daley on Saturday dismissed the notion that his administration’s failure to make good on a pledge to hire more police is affecting public safety, even as Chicago combats growing violent crime.
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"No, no," said Daley when asked about the lack of new hires and the impact on city safety. When pressed, Daley bristled and said "It just won’t."
The mayor said he's "working on" hiring more police officers, but didn’t have a time frame for when that would happen.
Daley's brief comments were the first he has made on the issue since the Tribune reported Thursday that the Chicago Police Department is down hundreds of officers due to retirements and other attrition. Police Supt. Jody Weis promised aldermen that he would expand the force by 75 officers as part of a move to get more cops on the street.
Daley, who refused to answer questions on the issue Thursday and Friday, cited dropping revenues as the reason for the hiring delay.
"It's simple, we have an economic crisis...we have to look at this in a four year financial plan, we're not going to be irresponsible," said Daley, who compared the crises that the city and country are grappling with to the financial problems faced by Chicago’s two newspapers.
"All you guys are going to get laid off," said Daley, laughing. "You have an economic crisis, you have a debt you have to figure this out."
Daley has said the city must reduce personnel costs in the face of the worsening economy and a gaping budget hole, but has not specified where the cuts could be made. His remarks Saturday came at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Uptown for a newly built playground at Stewart Elementary School, 4525 North Kenmore Ave..
Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the Police Department, said last week that Weis is still committed to hiring as many officers as he can but said the department is not the only agency in the city facing budget challenges.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2008/09/daley-says-lack.html
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE "SO CALLED UNION" FOP???
IT IS TIME TO MARCH!
WIVES, DO YOU WANT TO BURY YOUR HUSBANDS AND HUSBANDS DO YOU WANT TO BURY YOUR WIVES???
Instead of sweeping the streets of anyone engaged in lewd or disorderly conduct as was done in former times, the law-abiding are commanded to stay indoors while the lewd and disorderly are allowed access everywhere, up to and including police parking lots. Sam Francis's Anarcho-Tyranny cannot be demonstrated in starker terms.
Meanwhile, while the fallen officer is being gushed over for his community service, (which he deserves, but that's not the point) it goes unnoticed by the carefree and clueless white residents of Chicago's lakefront and bohemian neighborhoods - the same people who have blithely turned Daley into mayor-for-life - that the facility where the murder took place, once a regular police station, now houses Targeted Response and Gang Enforcement units, i. e., large bureaucracies within the police department dedicated to chronic crime and serial outbreaks of crime, otherwise known as crime waves. While a law-abiding citizen who displays a handgun will be branded with a felony arrest - a career-ending event for most people, real career criminals, and the mere savages who commit crimes simply because it feels good, are given special treatment, to negotiate and camouflage the problem rather than eradicate it.