That is completely false and revisionist history. They were done away with because city hall wanted to interfere with law enforcement, aka corrupt the justice system with their petty political concerns. They wanted to tell police to not enforce the law just as Fischer's administration has done. It wasn't as easy to obstruct justice with Captains protecting the officers from corrupt politicians. The 100-120 murders per year is proof of that. Look at what Fischer's hug-a-thug don't-arrest-nobody agenda