just curious your understanding of the chicago magazine report, allegations from several members of the city council that they don t believe the stats are on the up and up. and you re someone who s reported on this department for years. what is your sense? well, the statistics that the police department keeps have been questioned for decades. back in the 80s, mayor jane burn was accused of killing crime by reclassifying crime. so this notion that crimes are reclassified for whatever reason, it comes around every few years. has there ever been any professional sanction for mr. walsh given the roles that he played which taking a police file home, my sense is, is a violation of the code of conduct for officers. yes, it is a violation of the code of conduct. mr. walsh is one of six police officers who remain under investigation by the city s
it was downgraded to involuntary manslaughter when daley s nephew pled guilty. when you re someone who s worked with the chicago police department and reported on chicago police department for many years in that city, i m just curious your understanding of the chicago magazine report, allegations from several members of the city council that they don t believe the stats are on the up and up. and you re someone who s reported on this department for years. what is your sense? well, the statistics that the police department keeps have been questioned for decades. back in the 80s, mayor jane burn was accused of killing crime by reclassifying crime. so this notion that crimes are reclassified for whatever reason, it comes around every few years. has there ever been any
but names you should know because you may hear from them a few years down the road. they could be your next candidates for governor and senator. we re going to start with the democrats. first name up is will burns. burns is currently serving his first term as alderman for chicago s fourth ward which includes president obama s old neighborhood of hyde park. he s a former senate staffer to the president. a state representative and a friend of mayor rahm emanuel. many of our experts call him a serious contender for congress when some of the older african-american candidates decide not to run. he said nothing beats being an alderman in terms of hands on work, but he is quoting as saying congress lets you shape the national discourse. next up, bridget gainer. slee has been the cook county commissioner for the past five years and there s talk she ll become chicago s first female mayor since jane burn. his name was even floated for the position back in 2011. the chicago native began her caree
media for making a big deal and insisted everything in new jersey was under control. believe me, my cell phone was ringing more than it was, much more than i would prefer it to on normal circumstances when i m away on a family vacation. next door, new york city michael bloomberg got hammered for being in bermuda when it hit. he faced rest renting wondering why their streets were clogged days after the blizzard. the response to the storm has not pmet the standards. reporter: weather can make or break politicians everywhere. when chicago got plumbled by two huge blizzards in two weeks the mayor took the heat for the botched cleanup. he had the misfortune of a primary the next month. jane burn defeated him in the democratic primary and was ultimately voted in as chicago s new mayor.
respond to that snowstorm. chicago mayor came in, inherited that blizzard of 79, defeated in the primary two months later to jane burn. a christmas eve blizzard in 92 ended william mcnichols 14-year tenure. and mayor marion barry took heat for being at the super bowl in southern california when a storm pummeled washington in 87, i forgot that one, and angered residents in 96. when it took nearly a week to clear the streets after another major storm. i want to go to wayne, cause you have got an attitude about this. you know in washington, the last snowstorm that we had. d.c. s blithering when it comes to snow. an inch is enough to keep you off the streets. it was so deep in georgetown, the nicest neighborhood around, i guess, that there was so much snow, they couldn t plow it because there was no where to plow it to. they ended up having to shovel it out, you couldn t move it anywhere. you know, one of the strangest things you see is no one has shoveled the stairwells down to th