Police Camera Broken Before Derrion Albert Beaten to Death

Read it and believe, more evidence the Chicago police doesn't care (or worse) about the poor black high school students of the South Side. They just couldn't be bothered to fix the surveillance camera that would've spotted Derrion Albert's killers and would have had sharp photographic images of their faces, so the authorities could really tell who they are (at least one of the five arrested has multiple witnesses saying he was somewhere else) and prosecute them, rather than just picking up 'likely suspects', some of whom will be innocent. Here's most of the news report (style corrections added):

Police Camera Broken When Student Was Beaten to Death
October 15, 2009, 9:37 PM
By Darlene Hill

Chicago - Chicago's Blue Light Cameras are supposed to catch criminals in the act, but one of them on the south side was broken when the neighborhood needed it most. . . .

"I had hoped that it had been repaired," said Alderman Carrie Austin, about the mounted camera at the corner of 111th and Normal, a police camera that three weeks ago was broken. The camera is also less than a block away from where honor roll student Derrion Albert was beaten to death. . . .

[Police Superintendent Jody] Weis says other cameras in the area captured images but not faces like the video [FoxNews Chicago] shared. What he didn't say is that the police camera with the blue lights wasn't rolling when Albert was being stomped and punched.

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WARNING: graphic video

Where were the police when a gang of kids murdered 16-year-old Derrion Albert outside Chicago's Fenger High School?

A squad car was two blocks away. When what you see on the video happened, officers knew about the disturbance and decided not to respond, not to do anything at all.

The two cops were scared or didn't care. Probably the latter. The disturbance you see on the video or similar was a near-daily event, to be anticipated and prevented (see Fenger beating death: Violence, tension had been building over years). Get it, cops? Crime prevention. Where were you?

Why is no newspaper angry at the police? Why no editorials about this?

Where are the police this morning, two days later?

A TV reporter (the local Fox affiliate) at Fenger High School since 6 a.m. today reports at 8:30 that he hasn't seen a single cop car at the school.

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