Tiny clue enters Lightfoot's head

Chicago Mayor Says Police Union Is 'Extraordinarily Reluctant To Embrace Reform'

With nationwide protests focusing renewed attention and urgency on the issue of police brutality, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago says that police unions continue to be one of the biggest obstacles to reform.
"Unfortunately, in history in our city, and I think the history of other cities, unions are extraordinarily reluctant to embrace reform and that's a current state of affairs here," Lightfoot said in an interview Saturday with NPR's Weekend Edition. "We have had to take them to arbitration to win very modest reforms, and that's a shame of the history of collective bargaining where there hasn't been an emphasis on reform and accountability."
"These contracts," she said, "are a significant problem and challenge in getting the reforms necessary."

She is talking police unions but she is perfectly aware of all the school closings resulting from teacher's unions.  She isn't that dumb, but will face police strikes.  She also notes that once the police withdraw from Black neighborhoods crime and poverty will soar.

The cops know this. They will begin selectively enforcing the law. Older blacks and Black families will be stranded in chaos and all this will reverse. A few strikes by the cop unions and attitudes change over night.

California has the same problem:

Make a deal on pay cuts or wait? California unions face a choice as budget deadline nears

So the question is:  This has been coming for 15 years and why, in all that time, the UC professors have not done one ounce of research on the California boom.bust cycle? Who hired the nuts at Berkeley if they are not doing their job?

Police show less force as peaceful protests push reform

The Ferguson effect is the idea that increased distrust of police following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has led to an increased crime rate (or sometimes increased murder rate) in major U.S. cities.

Otherwise known as a police strike. This will be widespread. Already in Chicago older blacks are stuck, isolated with looted stores and no protection against violent gangs.