J-Fled Surfaces

And once again, comes up with a comment that just shows how out-of-touch he is with police work in general:

• "I simply cannot understand how a person can have such a total disregard of life and for those who keep order on our streets that he could attack, disarm and then shoot and kill a uniformed police officer in broad daylight," Weis said at police headquarters...

And one of our commentators had the perfect comeback:

• Work patrol...you will understand.

Short and to the point - and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the entire problem in a nutshell. Have a look at Sneed's column yesterday:

• No human being should have to see what a cop sees when he walks in on scenes choreographed in hell.

  "What they see and smell and touch and taste, no human being should have to endure," a Chicago Police chaplain told me.

  • To watch someone shoot and kill a 3-day-old baby.

  • To see an infant microwaved in an oven by a crackhead.

  • To walk into a house where a 92-year-old woman has been confined to bed for seven years in feces and toenails seven inches long.

  • To witness the physical and emotional damage done to children used for sex by drug addicts.

  • To stand over the body of a 5-year-old girl accidentally shot by a gang-banger while riding her big wheel down an alley.

We don't know if Sneed was quoting one of our fine police chaplains. Our opinion is that she's carried too much water for Daley over the years to actually have this sort of insight on her own.

But it is true. If the experiences of the entire Chicago Police Department from one single 24-hour period could be condensed into a five minute video and shown to the public, there is no doubt in our mind that most citizens would head for the hills screaming, never to return. What we see, hear, smell, or touch every day changes us in ways normal people cannot comprehend. Our families barely understand it sometimes, but mostly they stand by us throughout it.

J-Fled, Masters (Masters Masters), Brust, O'Keefe and all the other pretenders playing dress-up will never understand it. Never. And J-Fled is reduced to expressing his disbelief that anyone could be so callous as to attack us in our own backyard in broad daylight, while we not only understand it could happen, it has happened before, many times, and it will undoubtedly happen again in the future.

The biggest thing that has changed is how we aren't able to react to it.