Cops In Schools

At the risk of sounding overly optimistic, let me start by pointing out the good news in the Board of Education’s recent four-to-three vote to keep cops in schools.

I say the police department should pay. As the schools, always on the edge of bankruptcy, need every nickel they can get for classroom expenses. And, besides, until now, it was a slam dunk to get the City Council to approve more money for police.

They do it cause the mayor tells them to do it. Mayoral obedience traditionally being the common denominator for any school-board appointee.

Sometimes the mayor takes from Peter to pay Paul, as they say. The worst case being the aforementioned tax increment financing program. Man, if the Black Lives Matter activists ever discover TIFs? It’s over!

The money transfer is arranged through intergovernmental agreements that are “negotiated” between CPS and the police department.

This policy change occurred at around the time that a Cook County judge ordered Mayor Rahm to release a video showing police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting Laquan McDonald.