Daley chides cops who plan to picket

Chicago taxpayers have been "very good to public employees," Mayor Daley said Tuesday, advising police officers preparing to embarrass him by picketing when the International Olympic Committee comes to town this week to enter "the real world."

"I just dedicated a brand new police station. No other city is building police stations," he said. ". . . We spend an enormous amount of money. We're buying new police cars now. We have no apologies to make to any public employee.

"The taxpayers have been very, very good to public employees. . . . This is a very tough economic time and public employees have to understand that. This is the real world."

Mark Donahue, president …