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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Top Cop, “Carpetbaggers” Edition | Is Brizard “Anti-Teacher”? | Sposato’s Office Woes - Chicago News Cooperative

Top Cop, “Carpetbaggers” Edition | Is Brizard “Anti-Teacher”? | Sposato’s Office Woes - Chicago News Cooperative

Top Cop, “Carpetbaggers” Edition | Is Brizard “Anti-Teacher”? | Sposato’s Office Woes

TOUGH TALK MCGRUFF
On Chicago Tonight, former police superintendent Richard Brzeczek said the city doesn’t need a “carpetbagger” (2:18), referring to two outsider candidates who are under consideration to become Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel’s top cop. Brzeczek also called one candidate, Newark police chief Garry McCarthy, a “whiner and crybaby” (5:36). http://bit.ly/g5xUpV

- McCarthy was a contender in 2003 to become Chicago’s police superintendent, but was passed over for Phil Cline.
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- A former police officer who was the alleged ringleader of the now-defunct Special Operations Section pleaded