Editorial: Good riddance to the flashing blue lights. But the Loop still needs police officers out of their cars.
Of all the policing decisions in Chicago, few were as clueless as former police Chief David Brown’s so-called Strategic Deployment Initiative. That was the fancy name for the decision to park squad cars in high-profile locations like Michigan Avenue, Oak Street or outside the Nederlander Theatre in the North Loop at curtain time, turn on the blue lights and let the officer coddled in the warm ...