Brief Interlude

I’m fighting a nasty cold, so here’s a brief “everything has a history” note until I’m back on track.

A Chicago mayoral candidate just proposed creating a reserve police force of 1000 retired police officers and firefighters and giving the police department drones.

Just over a century ago, John Garritty, Chicago’s chief of police, proposed creating a reserve police force of several thousand veterans and giving the police department bombs.

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Writer. Formerly civil rights attorney. Currently professor. Working on new book about mental disability and criminal law in the 20th century.

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