DALEY'S ORDER TO "SHOOT TO KILL"
i A curious point of difference is being debated in America's ruling circles. The topic is: "How can a rebellion in the ghettos be put down most effectively ~-through use of the 'hard cop' or the ‘soft cop' technique?"
The argument was precipitated by Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, a national figure in the Democratic machine who will be host at the national convention of the Democratic party opening in Chicago August 28, when he announced April 15 that he had issued orders to his police department to "shoot to kill" when they spot “arsonists."
The mayor told a press conference that he had ordered his cops to "shoot to maim or cripple" in the case of "looters."
When asked by a reporter what he had ordered his men to do about young looters, some of them only children, the mayor said, "You wouldn't want to shoot them." In this instance, the mayor suggested that it would be best to gas them with the new chemical Mace.
Thus in a "riot" situation in the second biggest city in the United States,
By Joseph Hansen
a Chicago cop, looking down the barrel of
his gun, is under orders to decide wheth-
er an individual is guilty or not guilty
of being an "arsonist" or a "looter"; and,
having weighed the evidence and reached a
due decision, to pass sentence and exe-
cute that sentence on the spot.
If his decision is "arsonist," he
will aim at the victim's head or heart or
other vital organ.
If his decision is "looter," he
will aim at a part of the victim's body
where a bullet will only maim or cripple,
without killing.
The cop is under orders to temper
Daley's justice only if the victim ap-
pears to be under 21, in which case he
will put down his rifle or pistol and
pick up a tear-gas gun loaded with Mace.
As they say in the Chicago Demo-
cratic machine, "Justice grows out of the
barrel of a gun."
In contrast to Daley's “hard cop"
technique of protecting capitalist proper-
ty rights, as against human rights, down
to a pair of shoes or a pack of Coca Cola,
MAYOR