It's Called Leadership

Dave Fagus bemoans the lack of blogger coverage of the Abbate and Jefferson Tap beatings. Tom Westgard seconds that emotion, pointing out (correctly) that the abuse of power by other cops in covering for the miscreants in both events is where the real potential for corruption lies. So what is being done about all that?

I haven't said anything, until now, because either the system will work precisely as it should and precisely because Chicago is parading itself on the world stage, or it will do what it has always done; fade to black and little or no substantive results.

Dave asks, rhetorically I presume, the following question:

Where are the Alderman who had so great a fear about the city being ridiculed for something this terrible?

Indeed Dave, where is our Alderman? He wanted to hold hearings on the problems with the CTA, so why not take on the issues of police misconduct in both incidents? What's the holdup? Pardon my skepticism leading to outright cynicism, but it seems to me that our Alderman, the Great Progressive willing to stand up to the Mayor (or so he portrays himself), ought to be moved to address this problem. That he hasn't, and Dave never does tell us that JoMo is leading the charge for change, is even more telling than the lack of blog coverage. Sadly, it appears all too typical for an incumbent who can't seem to muster enough energy to be consistently in the forefront on significant issues affecting the ward (and those incidents could happen here too) except when an election is involved. Leadership is what it's all about, and there isn't any happening here.