It seems some persons have trouble differentiating between what SCC writes and what commentators say.
If you go by the time stamps, we seem to have beaten the Trib's Breaking News site to the punch by mere minutes, which means this story was out there and running before we even got the calls. We had comments popping up in the early morning, but we're usually far away from computers at that point.
We didn't "drag" anybody into this story. Someone with an agenda seems to have taken it into his head that we're printing rumors, dragging in innocents and has taken to threatening us, our families, our jobs. We flush those comments as a matter of course as we do anything that begins with "SCC you [expletive deleted]..." If they happened to read the papers today, nothing we said was any different than the media aside from calling on Bea to resign. But since it seems Bea was their clout, we're to blame.
We didn't call for Bea to be charged with anything. We didn't even blame her for her daughter's obviously bad life choices. But the fact remains that her building was the subject of a positive search warrant and all indications are that it was used for dope dealing and gun sales to gangbangers. As the owner of the property, she bears peripheral responsibility for what goes on there. If her daughter was staying there rent free, the responsibility is much larger. We happened to be looking at the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics recently. There's a line in there that we remember quite well - I will keep my private life unsullied as an example to all. This might be one of those times.
For that reason, we stand by the call to resign. If this was feudal Japan, there'd be a stack of resignations on Shortshanks' desk and a stack of dead bodies outside 3510 from all the seppuku taking place to restore the honor of the Chicago Police Department. But as there is no honor at Headquarters, we imagine it'll be business as usual.
If you go by the time stamps, we seem to have beaten the Trib's Breaking News site to the punch by mere minutes, which means this story was out there and running before we even got the calls. We had comments popping up in the early morning, but we're usually far away from computers at that point.
We didn't "drag" anybody into this story. Someone with an agenda seems to have taken it into his head that we're printing rumors, dragging in innocents and has taken to threatening us, our families, our jobs. We flush those comments as a matter of course as we do anything that begins with "SCC you [expletive deleted]..." If they happened to read the papers today, nothing we said was any different than the media aside from calling on Bea to resign. But since it seems Bea was their clout, we're to blame.
We didn't call for Bea to be charged with anything. We didn't even blame her for her daughter's obviously bad life choices. But the fact remains that her building was the subject of a positive search warrant and all indications are that it was used for dope dealing and gun sales to gangbangers. As the owner of the property, she bears peripheral responsibility for what goes on there. If her daughter was staying there rent free, the responsibility is much larger. We happened to be looking at the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics recently. There's a line in there that we remember quite well - I will keep my private life unsullied as an example to all. This might be one of those times.
For that reason, we stand by the call to resign. If this was feudal Japan, there'd be a stack of resignations on Shortshanks' desk and a stack of dead bodies outside 3510 from all the seppuku taking place to restore the honor of the Chicago Police Department. But as there is no honor at Headquarters, we imagine it'll be business as usual.
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