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Chicago Cops in Work Slowdown
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Some Chicago police officers are intentionally shirking work to protest an unpopular police chief.
“People are doing just what they need to get through” their shifts, said Lt. Robert Weisskopf, president of the Chicago police lieutenant’s union, “and not any extra.”
In addition to making fewer arrests, police are seizing fewer guns and frisking gang members less often than they did before the arrival of Superintendent Jody Weis as chief.
Weis was brought in to clean up a department embarrassed by a string of brutality cases, according to interviews, statistics provided by police, and an internal document obtained by the Associated Press.
Department spokeswoman Monique Bond disputed the notion of any deliberate slowdown by police, saying, “There is nothing that we have to prove or support a theory like that.”
But some members of the police department, both publicly and privately, blame low morale and fear of investigation by Weis, a former FBI agent who took over in February.
Through the end of August, the department made 104,000 arrests, compared with 116,000 for the same period last year. The 5,600 guns recovered is roughly half as many as police seized in the same period in 2007, internal documents show.
Weis was brought in with a mandate from Mayor Richard Daley to repair the reputation of the police department.
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