As Gallo describes it, a Chicago police officer gets paid for watching people hurt each other.
Police work is a very difficult task.
Sunday's Sun-Times examined eight facets of the Chicago Police Department and gave it some mixed but overall good grades. Recent headlines shout about cops exchanging sex for leniency in arrests, a jewel theft ring allegedly led by a former chief detective, cop shakedowns of immigrants and complaints from the gay community about shabby police treatment. A total of 9,184 complaints were lodged last year against a force of 13,500. But the civilian investigators at the Office of Professional Standards found only 145 of the complaints technically valid, marking the third consecutive year this number has declined. Still, there's always room for improvement.