You might need to put up some signs in Chicago that say "All Federal ICE and Law Enforcement agents must be clearly identifiable and may not cover their faces."
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This is an excellent idea that meets the challenge and minimizes conflict and embarrassment.
If they are really going to do this the local PDs need to practice. If I were a Chicago resident I would:
1. call my local precinct and whilst burying my deep dislike of police
2. first praise the Mayor's statement, gush about how much safer you feel.
3. Freak out about how scary it all is.
4. Ask how they are preparing to ensure the rules are followed.@futurebird @jrconlin I'd love to live in a world where this tactic worked, and I don't disparage it; it might. By the Chicago police are notoriously brutal, and in every other city the police have bent over backwards to support ICE as much as possible given local regulations.
If I were the mayor of Chicago, I'd try to pass an ordinance banning the use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and as many other "less-lethal" munitions as I could, and then if it passed I'd try to make sure that the police sold these things off or destroyed them. Take away the police ability to restrain angry crowds and the angry crowds will drastically suppress ICE operations; ICE doesn't have the manpower to both round up victims and do crowd control themselves.
If any actually sympathetic police precincts exist (seems highly unlikely to me) they could simply be strategically unavailable to assist with crowd control for ICE, to the same effect. To less effect individual sympathetic officers could call in sick (or y'know, quit their jobs). I don't expect any of this to happen though.
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@futurebird @jrconlin I'd love to live in a world where this tactic worked, and I don't disparage it; it might. By the Chicago police are notoriously brutal, and in every other city the police have bent over backwards to support ICE as much as possible given local regulations.
If I were the mayor of Chicago, I'd try to pass an ordinance banning the use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and as many other "less-lethal" munitions as I could, and then if it passed I'd try to make sure that the police sold these things off or destroyed them. Take away the police ability to restrain angry crowds and the angry crowds will drastically suppress ICE operations; ICE doesn't have the manpower to both round up victims and do crowd control themselves.
If any actually sympathetic police precincts exist (seems highly unlikely to me) they could simply be strategically unavailable to assist with crowd control for ICE, to the same effect. To less effect individual sympathetic officers could call in sick (or y'know, quit their jobs). I don't expect any of this to happen though.
This is exactly why I'm very curious about what if anything is being done to make good on the mayor's promise to protect the people of the city. A promise our useless mayor in NYC would never make since he's too busy eating boots.
PDs generally don't like having other groups come in and get in the way. That the national guard is being sent is a kind of insult to the "quality" of their work. Start there.
