Zekman Investigation

Well, this explains what she was doing in 006:

• There's a huge shortage of police officers in Chicago. The city is down by as many as 2,000 every day.
  
  But just what impact is that having on the streets? [...]
  
  Officially, the department refuses to disclose how many officers are actually patrolling the streets, saying that would be like giving troop strengths to the enemy. But apparently there aren't enough.

Duh. Thanks for catching up Pam. Evidently, she read Fran Spielman's article a few weeks ago about manpower shortages, something we've been pointing out for over two years now. And how bad is the shortage? People are waiting 30 to 90 minutes for reports following calls of an incidents "in progress" or "just occurred." While the immediacy of the situation may be past, you can't really explain that to a citizen who just had a gun stuck in their faces.

• Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said he's aware of the issue.
  
  "Well, I'm not losing sleep at night, but I say I'm nervous because we track it every day," he said.

Way to look concerned and in touch with the issue J-Fed! Your concern is a tribute to your mercenary ways of breezing into town, grabbing almost a cool million over 3 years, and riding out of town in a flurry of statistical reports, policy groups and broken promises.