Sometimes they get it right

Commander [Vimes], I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you. It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority. That's practically Zen.

—Havelock Vetinari

Some good news for all those "whiners" who are being screwed over by our "fundamentally sound" economy—it seems like at least one authority figure has figured out who's really at fault (and who's not) for foreclosures, and is doing something about it.

Chicago's Cook County won't evict in foreclosures

The sheriff here said Wednesday that he's ordering his deputies to stop evicting people from foreclosed properties because many people his office has helped throw out on the street are renters who did nothing wrong.

"We will no longer be a party to something that's so unjust," a visibly angry Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said at a news conference.

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This week, an attorney asked that Dart be held in contempt when his deputies did not evict tenants after determining they were not the owners and did not know about their landlord's financial problems.

A judge denied the attorney's request, Dart's office said, and Dart said that after talking to the Cook County state's attorney's office, he is confident he is on solid legal ground.

"My job as sheriff is to follow court orders, absolutely," he said. "But I'm also in charge of making sure justice is being done here and it is clear that justice is not being done here."

What a crazy idea—following law and justice instead of following (and giving) orders. That's policing as it's supposed to be.