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Chicago’s cops have big troubles, but that doesn’t mean they can’t make videos about Jews

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November 23, 2007

The problems of the Chicago Police Department are well-known—” target = “_blank”>LAPD proposed, but it raises a few questions:

  1. Are Chicago Jews so exotic they need a National Geographic travelog about their obscure customs?
  2. Are Chicago cops so uneducated about the world around them that they need a video like this?
  3. Who else got the special Chicago treatment; the Police Chaplain narrator mentions a total of three—Muslims? Sikhs? Hindus? Mormons?  What are they like?

On the other hand, maybe it was a good idea, especially after Update:  The rest of these USDOJ-funded videos can be

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