Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Daley of Chicago, one who had the courage to employ his authority where so many others have failed...
Beautiful Cops. At first, Mayor Richard Daley had praise for the report. "Overall," said Daley, "it is an excellent study." He confined his criticism to the report's seven-page summary, which ticked off incident after incident of police near-hysteria and expressed astonishment that few policemen had been disciplined for misbehavior. Taken by itself, the summary could "mislead the public," Datey warned...
Then, at a press conference, Walker coldly demanded that Chicago's police department "root out and punish" the offending officers. "The blue curtain cannot be permitted to fall," he said. Walker blamed Daley for creating a climate of encouragement for police violence by ordering cops to "shoot to kill" arsonists after the city's ghetto riots last April. "When the police acted with restraint in April," Walker observed, "they were condemned. When they acted with violence, the city was silent...
That was too much for Daley and his men in blue. Insisted the mayor: "If you were to ask me if I support the Chicago police department and the National Guard in their actions, the answer would be an unequivocable [sic] yes." Police Superintendent James Conlisk ventured a brief statement, saying that "to speak of 'a police riot is to distort the history of those days in August. The world knows who the rioters were." Commander Ronald Nash, who headed a force of 135 police during the convention week's most violent confrontation outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel...
This direct affront to their city was probably enough to anger most proud Chicagoans. Policemen and viewers, however, were upset by the alleged lack of objectivity in reports like Perkins'. From them arose the charges of slanting the news. Mayor Daley claimed the media had been unfair by not giving the taunting, obscenity-shouting protesters equal time in their coverage. Television, he charged, had shown only his policemen's reaction, and not the provocations they were reacting...