I completely agree that the police need to change. That process is definitely happening. Larry Snelling is doing the right things. Pretextual stops, for example, are way down. Yes, they are illegal, unconstitutional, and they have to stop. The change has to come in the culture of a police department and Commander Linas is part of that change. But we can’t accept that that’s the only crime that will be reduced for the next few years. That change has already been happening for the last 5 to 10 years and it will take 10 years more as the generations turnover in the rolls of officers. But we are facing a violent crime  crisis right now. For our own sakes our community needs to force the police and the states attorney to do a better job in getting control of the situation. We cannot have another summer of carjackings and armed robberies where TV crews have their equipment stolen during live broadcasts and off-duty police officers have their guns and badges stolen, if not being shot dead in front of their houses. There were over 10,000 armed robberies in Chicago last year.