Chicago police are setting up checkpoints throughout the city both to remind people about the statewide stay-at-home order during the coronavirus outbeak and to “show a strong police presence” in areas hit by violence.
A department memo obtained by the Tribune calls them “seatbelt safety and informational” checkpoints, and adds that the “goal of this mission is to engage the community in a positive and informative manner while providing a visible police presence in areas affected by violence.”
Each of the city’s 22 patrol districts is to have one checkpoint each day, staffed by a supervisor and an unspecified number of officers, according to the memo.
Any officer “interacting with any occupants of a vehicle will don a mask and gloves,” according to the memo. Each checkpoint will last up to an hour.
The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, which represents rank-and-file police officers, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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We don’t need reminding, we don’t need a stay-at-home order, and finally, we don’t need a ‘strong police presence.’ What we need is for egomaniacal power-grabbing pols to back off & let the people decide what’s needed. The traditional quarantine model is to isolate the sick/infected folks and NOT the healthy/non-infected folks, while asking EVERYONE to wash hands, wear masks/gloves & take reasonable, effective precautions. Not complicated.
PROOF the cops are NOT ESSENTIAL.. THEY ARE Nothing more than jack booted thugs these days.
“providing a visible police presence in areas affected by violence”
That visible police presence NEEDS to be in those areas 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Exactly. WHERE WAS Their presence in the hoods, when they were having 2-3 THOUSAND MURDERS a year?
They likely still are … media just not reporting. Media too busy hating The President to do their job!
True dat.
Starting to look like a police state every moment now. Keeping law abiding citizens under lock and key. Allowing criminals out of prison, illegals to come across the border in California. You have Constitutional rights. Use them. Better pay attention. The democrats are the ones who belong under lock and key, not law abiding citizens. Go watch the movie of the veterans who took care of this problem when they returned to the USA in Athens, Georgia in 1946, The Battle for Athens, It is a TRUE story of the corruption of politicians. AND THE VETERANS WON!!!!
Come on people, the power hungry politicians are taking you over and justifying all they do for your safety sweet pea! And if you don’t believe that, then you deserve neither safety nor liberty. Ben Franklin made that statement.
What’s next? Requiring everyone to have a “PANDEMIC PASSPORT, showing they are clean, before they’re allowed to travel to and from stores”??
the imaginary fodder of an american police state has become reality!!!!
Glad I don’t live in a Communist democrat Controlled State.
IF WE DON’T end this soon, it won’t just be commie states doing this. I fear.
“show a strong police presence” in areas hit by violence.
Yet they were no where to be found during the gang related drive by shootings.
OR when Antifa/BLM were out rioting….
Well, that should solve chicago’s traffic problem.