Mom of slain 13-year-old: '22 holes in my baby's body'

 When is enough enough?  Mayor Daley and his incompetent, fancy pants, supercilious sycophant, Jody Weis, cannot answer that question.  Oh they blather on casting blame on others, society, the FBI, poverty, parents, aliens, a lack of trees, a dearth of flowers, no wrought iron fences, not enough blue recycling cans, guns, guns- and did I mention guns?  

When are they going to unleash the police.  Take the handcuffs off, put a moratorium on the ridiculous rules, and stop this madness.  When are they going to support and back the police and let them do their jobs.  Tough times call for tough people and tougher actions.  Weis has all the information he needs about the gangs and drug cartels causing these killings.  He is sitting on it with his fancy pants.  He can start dismantling these enterprises right now.  He refuses.  So does our Malaprop mayor.

How many more children must be killed?  How many more off duty and on duty police officers must be killed.  How many families have to suffer because of Daley's and Weis's indifference and apathy?  This is war!  You do not fight a war with words, community organizers, and activists.  You fight a war with tough people, tough tactics, and rough justice.

When is enough enough?  We need a mayor who really cares.  We need a real police officer as Superintendent of Police.  We need police officers to flood these areas of gangs and drugs and go to war.  These gangs and drug dealers are urban terrorists.  We should treat them as such.

The author is a retired Chicago Police Officer.