Chicago Police Department Exercising Their Constitutional Right to Picket for More Money

I walked through City Hall to grab a sandwich and ran smack into this picket by the Chicago Police Department of City Hall.

March 26, Chicago, Il

Leaders of Chicago's police union are considering taking the growing acrimony over contract negotiations public at a most inopportune time for Mayor Richard Daley—picketing on the day International Olympic Committee evaluators arrive next week to see the city.

Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue acknowledged that a picket line of officers while Olympic officials are in town April 2-7 is "being discussed," but he said nothing has been decided by the union and declined to comment further.

Union officials were angered recently by the Daley administration's decision to withdraw a pay raise offer already on the table in the negotiations. Police morale had already plummeted under Supt. Jody Weis, whom many in the department view as an outsider with an unfairly harsh attitude toward disciplining officers. Daley hired Weis, a former FBIofficial, with the expressed purpose of improving the reputation of a scandal-plagued department.

They don't like their current leader, Jody Weis, and they want more money.  I wonder if there is an economic incentive to write Chicago DUI and traffic tickets as a way to earn more money in their pockets.