JACK DUNPHY: The Ferguson Effect Strikes the Chicago PD:

No, the cops aren’t afraid of getting shot or stabbed or otherwise injured in an altercation, they’re afraid of becoming the next YouTube sensation when an arrest goes wrong and fails to unfold in a manner approved by cowardly department brass, unprincipled politicians, and ignorant “community leaders,” all of whom exhort the cops to go out in the streets and stop the madness, but to do so without hurting anyone.

Well, it’s not like the Chicago PD has to do much crime fighting, so it’s probably nothing.