Be careful what you ask for. As flawed as state control of SLMPD might be, city control would be a unmitigated disaster. I realize most of you all have a "committee fetish" and that might be cool for Trustafarians on Cherokee(), but it really isn't the way the PD in this city needs to be run.

We have twenty-eight alderpersons in this city, the same number we had at our peak population of 850,000 back in the 50s. Most of those alderpersons are bureaucratic hacks, enriching themselves on the public tit. They already wield immense power. A petty alderperson, perhaps smarting from your refusal to kick into her campaign can sick all manner of "inspectors" on you and make your life miserable. Do you really want them to have the power to sick the police on you, as well?

Newsflash for all you Trustafarian Anarchists: The criminals already rule the streets of St. Louis and act out your proletarian revolt fantasies with relative immunity. Sinclarian-revolutionary dreams of Dope, Guns and Fucking in the Streets are already a reality. You should be digging that, not organizing for more bureaucratization. How counter-revolutionary!