Leave your two-year-old in your car, asleep, walk no more than 10 yards, keeping your car in sight at all times, return minutes later . . . and find yourself arrested and handcuffed for “child endangerment and obstructing a peace officer.” The “peace officer” would be the thug who, according to the poor mother, “was on a tirade” and “yelling at” her.

Notice, by the way, how the AP reporter feels the need to provide “balance” to this story by mentioning that even though to some the cop’s actions seem extreme, “statistics show thousands of children are injured and dozens die every year after being left unattended near or inside vehicles,” and then quoting an activist on the subject.

While this mother was being booked for a non-crime, one wonders how many real crimes were taking place in the Windy City that the cops didn’t bother to impede.