McCarthy should end posibe Chicago mayoral bid

Former Chicago top cop Gerry McCarthy should stop flirting with a mayoral bid and leave the Chicago political scene. His four and a half year tenure (May, 2011-December, 2105) will be remembered by two unflattering controversies. His touting of crime reduction early on was debunked by fuzzy math that under reported murders and serious assaults. But the one that led to his December, 2015 firing, was worse, his role, along with Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and States Attorney Linda Alvarez in covering up the October, 2013, Laquan McDonald shooting. When video captured officer James Van Dyke pumping 16 slugs into McDonald, acting erratically rather than an imminent threat on a Chicago street, McCarthy locked hands with Emmanuel and Alvarez to suppress the damning video for 14 months. When a judge released the video, Alvarez promptly indicted Van Dyke for murder to tamp down the impending and justified public outcry. Since Emmanuel couldn't fire himself or Alvarez, he dumped the one member of the coverup he could...McCarthy.

One can't blame McCarthy for believing Emmanuel scapegoated him to insulate the mayor from further political fallout. McCarthy's possible mayoral bid smacks of revenge, pure and simple. There is nothing in McCarthy's resume that qualifies him to be mayor. To the contrary, his parsing of crime statistics, aiding the unconscionable McDonald shooting coverup, and now a spite centered possible mayoral bid all make him unfit to toss his Chief's hat into the Chicago mayor ring.