“During the startup period he is just a resource for information this exact location that he passes every single day,” Marks said. He’s able to provides a “hyperlocal perspective” that will help security, Marks said. MOCA co-owner Danny Marks said McCarthy is a consultant, not a full-time employee, and lives a block away from their desired location.
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“If you have him full time as part of your staff I think everyone should breathe very easy. “As far as security is concerned, you have the right person with Garry McCarthy,” one resident said. Other residents praised McCarthy, however, including a few who knew him as their River North neighbor.
“ all the blame isn’t placed at his feet …it’s interesting to me that is the individual you would choose as your security consultant in such a contentious industry with a community that already has a contentious relationship with this individual,” she said.
She said when she saw him in the room all she could think about was “cover up.” River North resident Loren Johnson said it “boiled” her blood when she learned that McCarthy was a part of the team. So if you don’t want the police to enforce the law, I don’t know what to tell you.” “Being a police officer is called law enforcement. “I think I’ve pretty much answered that question by telling you that I decriminalized it in the two places that I had control of, and I’m also on record, like I said, talking about the War on Drugs being a wholesale failure,” he said. When asked if it was appropriate to benefit financially from the legal weed trade after his past overseeing a police department with a record of unequal enforcement, McCarthy said he was just enforcing the law. Of the 4,600 people police chose to arrest, rather than ticket, since 2013, 89 percent were black, the paper found. Seventeen of the city’s 20 community areas with the highest rates of ticketing were majority African-American, the paper reported at the time. “And guess what? We did that and it went away,” McCarthy said.īut a 2016 investigation by the Sun-Times found that while arrests did go down, the problem of unequal enforcement didn’t go away. To fix the problem, McCarthy said he made it CPD policy to accept alternative identifications - like calling the person’s parent - in the place of a government-issued ID. In 2012, Chicago’s City Council passed a measure to allow police the option of issuing a ticket for anyone caught in possession of less than 15 grams of marijuana.Īfter the ordinance was passed, McCarthy said he noticed black youth on the South and West sides were being “disproportionately arrested” because they didn’t possess the identification needed to get a ticket. News reports from the time paint a murkier picture. “I came here and I did the same thing, people don’t remember that.” “I said absolutely! I said, when ‘I went to Newark I decriminalized it so that if you’re in possession of marijuana or cannabis, you could get a ticket rather than a mandatory arrest,'” McCarthy said. Credit: Justin Laurence/Block Club Chicago MOCA is looking to open a dispensary in River North, and pitched its plan to neighbors Wednesday. McCarthy said it was an easy decision to consult given that he worked to decriminalize cannabis in both Chicago and Newark, where he also served as top cop. He aims to help MOCA as they work to open the dispensary in River North, working with Michael Chasen, a retired police detective and MOCA’s chief security officer. McCarthy said he’s become friends with Sam Fakhouri, who owns the building where MOCA wants to open, and it was Fakhouri who approached him about the opportunity. RELATED: 4 Weed Dispensaries Want To Open Within Blocks In River North, But Only 1 Will Be Allowed
McCarthy was on hand as MOCA pitched their plan to River North Residents at a River North Residents Association Wednesday. McCarthy later ran for mayor in 2019, finishing 10th in a crowd of 14 candidates.
McCarthy served as Chicago’s top cop from 2011-2015 before being fired by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel after the release of a video showing Chicago Police officer Jason VanDyke fatally shooting Laquan McDonald. Ohio St., located a few blocks from where McCarthy lives. MOCA Modern Cannabis, which is in a race with three other companies to open a dispensary in a small area of River North, brought McCarthy on as a security consultant to advise on measures for their planned dispensary at 216 W. and mayoral candidate Garry McCarthy has a new gig: Security consultant to a weed company. LOGAN SQUARE - Former Chicago Police Supt.
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