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Despite Crime Wave, 50 Chicago Police Sent to Dem Convention
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ABC News - Despite Crime Wave, 50 Chicago Police Sent to Dem Convention (ABC News)

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Only days after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked for federal agents and U.S. Marshals to help combat the city's wave of violence, about 50 Chicago police officers have arrived in Charlotte to work perimeter security details for a week at the Democratic National Convention.

The Chicago officers, in their distinctive uniforms and checkerboard-brimmed hats, said they had been instructed not to talk with reporters about their out-of-town assignment.






A Charlotte police department spokesperson confirmed that "roughly 50 officers from Chicago" were on duty at the convention.

"These are officers on their days off and were specially trained as mobile field force officers for the recent NATO summit in Chicago," said a spokesperson for the Chicago police department, Melissa Stratton.

A Charlotte police department spokesperson confirmed that "roughly 50 officers from Chicago" were on duty at the convention.

"These are offices on their days off and were specially trained as mobile field force officers for the recent NATO summit in Chicago," said a spokesperson for the Chicago police department, Melissa Stratton.






Monday morning some of the Chicago officers were stationed near security screening posts where delegates enter the Charlotte Convention Center.

"I would love to know the logic behind that decision to send them there given all that is happening here in Chicago," the Rev. Ira Acree of the Greater St. John Bible Church in Chicago told ABC News Monday.

"It's a state of emergency here in Chicago," Rev. Acree told the Wall Street Journal last week.

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Chicago police union officials also questioned the use of officers in Charlotte.

"We had two homicides and dozens of shootings this weekend, and we're sending offices out of the city?" said Pat Camden, a spokesperson for the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police. "I think the average person would shake his head over that."

Last Friday, Mayor Emanuel and Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy publicly asked for federal help in targeting neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the city's wave of violence.

"The help comes in the form of additional agents to target guns, gangs and drugs," Superintendent McCarthy said at a news conference.

Chicago's homicide rate is about 31 percent higher than last year, with 346 reported killings as of August 19, according to figures provided by the Chicago police.

Officials said the Chicago officers were sent to Charlotte to reciprocate for police sent by Charlotte to help during the recent NATO summit held in Chicago.

"They are there on their days off and were not pulled off the street," said Stratton.

She said the officers sent to Charlotte will be paid through a special federal grant of $50 million for convention security. "No funds from the city of Chicago are involved," Stratton said.

"We had a very successful outcome at the NATO convention in Chicago," said Stratton, praising the training of the officers to handle large gatherings.

There was no request for the Chicago officers to assist in security at the GOP convention last week in Tampa, she added.

The police union has been critical of Mayor Emmanuel, a prominent figure in the Democratic party and former White House chief of staff, for substantial reductions in the police budget.

"We've had about a thousand officers retire over the last two years and only about 200 have been hired to replace them," said Camden, the Fraternal Order of Police spokesperson.

"We've had a collective failure of all institutions to address the violence and I don't give the President a pass either," said the Chicago pastor, Rev. Acree.

A spokesperson for Charlotte police chief Rodney Monroe said, "Chief Monroe is grateful to have the assistance of these officers for this monumental event."

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Mike

Guess I gotta ask why Charlotte & NC would allow them to come; guess they just weren't up to the task, eh?

MM

For City Hall it cuts down on the expense of having the circus in town. Plus it keeps some decent officers from having to consort with these hooligans.

Lots of local police forces coutnry-wide are sending contingents. They cannot carry sidearms there.

1B

i heard Rahm say that to combat the murders he was putting more
cops on the streets- I guess he meant Charlotte.

he also said overall crime in Chicago was down 10% so he was very optimistic. His main push was to get guns and drugs off the streets in Chicago to see further results.

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Open carry is supposedly "legal" in North Carolina, not sure if that includes Yankee immigrants.

Highest Homicide rate, big rise in crime, liberal solution is strictest gun control laws and send their cops to NC for the DNC, makes perfect sense when your head is that far up your anal cavity!

Ties in rather well (e.g. equally WEIRD)with having L,A. Mayor Antonio Villagurosa MCing the carnival.

GTC

Hell, maybe they need 'em. Arrests in Charlotte are stacking up already. Can you imagine having all those idiots come to your town for a week?

In point of fact 1b, active duty cops can carry anywhere in the USA under HR218. Qualified retired cops can do the same.

All part of the gradual nationalization of our local police forces.

As long as state law of the state accepting out-of-state officers allows it, and the proper paperwork is crunched pursuant thereto, police from other jurisdictions can be accorded the status of police in the receiving state.

They're all hanging out at the Pizza joints anyway...
They do talk funny...

And this is a matter for concern.

A friend is a sergeant with the LA County Sheriff's Dept, and he left Sunday night for Charlotte. He is assigned to the Emergency Command Center here - not sure what he is doing there.

They're conditioning the American people to think of all police officers as national police officers, something specifically prohibited by the US Constitution.

They also have lots of trailers converted into mobile Emergency units complete with stacks of body bags...? weird

20 years ago, a buddy and I drove up from New Orleans to Ohio for an Ayoob class. When we got there, after we swore an oath to uphold and enforce the Constitution of the United States of America, the laws of the State of Ohio and the ordinances of the City of Alliance, the mayor of the city declared us city police officers and handed us a piece of paper purporting to be our commissions. I still have it in a file somewhere. So, it's not like it's a new concept, and the laws have probably become more tight over time.

The local cops I know say that they are not to carry or use their service weapons while there on duty. Their duties? Basic trafic crowd flow duy I guess but you never know do you?

1B