The FOP and Vallas "crime fighting plan": Unleash the police.

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Paul Vallas, the man who tried to destroy public education in Chicago, Bridgeport, Philly and New Orleans - he succeeded in New Orleans - is running for mayor of Chicago.

He’s the Darren Bailey in the race.

The Republican in this non-partisan election.

The mouthpiece of the Fraternal Order of Police for whom he served as an unpaid consultant.

The Great White Hope to lead our city of diversity.

John Catanzara in a better suit.

The Sun-Times’ Fran Spielman gave free rein to Vallas this morning. She basically reprinted his press release on his plan to crime in Chicago.

What words we won’t find in the Vallas/FOP plan: Civil liberties. Justice. Poverty.

Some of my liberal friends dismiss the possibility of Vallas as mayor.

I don’t.

Some of my liberal friends dismissed the possibility of Trump as president and we see where that got us.

But with so many candidates running to oust a progressive African American lesbian mayor from the fifth floor, Vallas has a clear path as the only reactionary in the race.

“Take the handcuffs off the police,” Vallas told Spielman, displaying some confusion about who in this city gets to wear handcuffs.

Vallas, of course, is not stupid. He and his advisors are using a real concern that Chicagoans have about crime and violence and then using misdirection to win favor.

His solutions are simplistic and have a record of failure.

Like stop and frisk.

A focus on low-level crime.

Approving a strong public nuisance ordinance that uses hefty fines and vehicle impoundment to punish looters, flash mobs and others for lesser crimes the state’s attorney won’t prosecute. Vallas denied that the public nuisance ordinance and a reinvigorated municipal prosecutions section within the city’s Law Department would be tantamount to stop-and-frisk.

Of course it’s stop-and-frisk, a failed and unconstitutional practice that is now no longer the official practice of many big-city police departments.

It is still an unofficial practice.

Chicago cops are five times more likely to stop a Black person as a white person.

Paul Vallas doesn’t think that’s good enough.