Chicago Way w/John Kass: Why safety on the streets starts in the courtroom
Chicago Way w/John Kass (03/17/25): A newcomer to the podcast, Chicago Police Chief of Detectives (ret.) Gene Roy joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin to talk about how wearing a badge in Chicago has changed over the last forty years and look at what he sees as major flaws with the criminal justice & courts system in Cook County under the stewardship of Judge Tim Evans. Plus, Kasso wonders if Mayor Brandon “6.6% Approval Rating” Johnson will ever collect his precious 3% kick back from city contractors.
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Thank you, John, Detective Roy, and Jeff Carlin. As you said, we who were born and lived in Chicago but moved out “love and hate it” at the same time. Nelson Algren brilliantly summed it up, “Like loving a beautiful woman with a broken nose, you may find lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real.” Chicago is the ultimate “real” urban experience of America. When I read “The Chicago Contrarian,” before its current topic it displays quotes from of a variety of international figures historical figures as to the character of our “lovely lady.” Nothing has changed and nothing new under the sun in Chicago. Murder and mayhem. Ironically John, you would have no fodder for columns or pod posts, like the lawyers in The Devil and Daniel Webster (Stephen Vincent Benet.)
As clouted as Gene Roy is he knows how things work.
Thank you Chief,John and Jeff.
The 3% is baked in all the bids/quotes.