National Spotlight on J-Fed

And it isn't pretty:

• When the Mayor of Chicago asked how he could possibly justify giving his new police chief an annual salary of $300,000, the mayor said you have to spend big if you want the best. A year later, lots of folks are asking some tough questions about whether or not the “best” choice is providing value for dollars spent. Chicago homicides, shootings, and other violent crime are all up. Arrests, gun recoveries, and other hard indicators of police activity are all down.

  When Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis took the job and promised results, this isn't exactly what city officials, community leaders, and the city’s cops had in mind. “He’s made mistakes. This is the residual effect of that. He’s got good intentions. But it’s hard to see anything positive about his reign,” Police Committee Chairman Isaac Carothers told the Chicago Sun Times in a recent interview.

The entire article is about eight paragraphs long and is pretty much a summary of everything the media has been covering for the past year. Shortshanks has to be aware of what's being whispered in municipal governments across the country - he made a mistake. The only positive that might come out of this entire event is that other city governments that are thinking about hiring Feebs to run local law enforcement are going to think twice.