Another Useless Law

Thanks again aldercreatures. You guys and gals are leaders among men and women:

• Owners of dogs that make excessive noise that "unnecessarily disturbs" their human neighbors could face fines of between $50 and $250 a day under an ordinance approved today by a Chicago City Council committee.
  
  Here's how the measure defines excessive noise: "repeated or habitual barking, whining, crying, howling (and) whimpering." It's aimed at dogs but also would apply to any animal.
  
  "It's not an anti-dog thing," said Ald. Patrick O'Connor, 40th, who is co-sponsoring the measure along with Ald. Richard Mell, 33rd. "It's not preventing dogs from being dogs. It just means that if you let your dog bark all day everyday, disturbing peace for people in the area, there's a possibility now that police can do something."

We guess "slim and none" is a possibility, what with being a few hundred officers short, backlogs each and every afternoon/evening, rushing from hot call to hot call, generating reports on a system that's down almost as often as it's up. We're sure we'll get to these calls.

Is there a call priority lower than a "4" yet? These would be a "5" in our book. It's just something else for citizens to bitch at the police about for not responding to in a "timely" manner.