Richard J. Daley Quotes
The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
Richard Joseph Daley, 1902-1976, Mayor of Chicago (Democrat), Statement [or misstatement] on the Chicago riots during the Democratic National Convention, August 1968
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His plan was that at the end of WWII, the 4 nations would police the world to be sure that the “4 Policemen” would be sure that no other Hitler could ever even start to invade neighboring countries. Ironically, he strongly suspected that the Nationalist Chinese would not be able to do this for the Pacific and assumed that the US would have to carry that area as well, but he didn’t doubt the ability of the Russians to police Eastern Europe but didn’t suspect that it would be Russia herself who militarily and covertly would encroach on other Eastern European countries.
This is one of the major reasons that the relations between police and the communities they are policing is so important. Also, the style and courtesy that the IRS tax collectors exhibit is very important.
The import of this proverb that eventually things get so bad that people take radical steps to organize things. Unfortunately, historically when there have been periods of disorder and anarchy, a strongman or dictator usually takes over and provides the organization,
This is an excellent example of the twisted, self-fulfilling logic of the Afrikaners in justifying apartheid. Many Afrikaners were inveterate racists, and were also usually armed which was a rural tradition of their early immigration and the Zulu and Boer Wars. Those whites would cause a riot if a black was allowed into a white audience performance. That in turn would cause chaos. Therefore mixed audiences could not be allowed. It never occurred to Botha and his colleagues that the government’s responsibility was to control and restrict the white rioters and instigators. This was not unique Afrikaner thinking; the same logic prevailed throughout the American South in the Jim Crowe segregation era.
Richard Joseph Daley was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Chicago from 1955 and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953 until his death. He has been called "the last of the big city bosses" who controlled and mobilized American cities. Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working-class, heavily Irish-American South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport, where he lived his entire life. He was the patriarch of the Daley family, whose members include Richard M. Daley, another former mayor of Chicago; William M. Daley, a former United States Secretary of Commerce; John P. Daley, a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners; and Patrick Daley Thompson, an alderman of the Chicago City Council.
