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Four homicides over the weekend and two more Monday morning pushed Chicago's homicide count so far this year to double the same period last year."
The city has recorded at least 95 homicides since the first of the year, compared to 47 last year, according to data kept by the Tribune. The city has also more than doubled the amount of people shot - about 420 this year compared to 193 last year.
Meanwhile,
Chicago police "stop and frisks" is down 80% in 2016.
As shootings and murders spike one major component of Chicago police crime fighting is way down. The number of street stops by officers has plunged 80 percent this year.
For decades when Chicago police stopped and frisked someone on the street, they had to fill out a small card called a "Contact Card." It required simple, basic information about who was stopped and why. Beginning January 1, 2016, a new state law regulated when cops could stop and pat down people in public and then officers had to fill out a two page "Investigatory Stop Report."...
More than paperwork or new laws, Chicago police officials say they know that some cops may just be shying away from controversy.
"Periodically somebody will say something to the effect of that they are concerned of being the next 'viral video'. Even when they're doing something right they are concerned that their actions are being questioned and they'll be the next one to go viral," he says.
Viral video is one way to put it. In a fish bowl is another; that's where the president of the police union says his members are forced to their jobs. Fraternal Order of Police president Dean Angelo says less-aggressive policing no doubt coincides with the spike in Chicago murders and shootings.
Do you believe there a correlation between the uptick in murders and the decrease in aggressive police tactics?
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Gang bangers gotta bang.
Do you believe there a correlation between the uptick in murders and the decrease in aggressive police tactics?
There seems to be a correlation, but I wouldn't say that.
There certainly is a correlation. I worked the South-side from 1996 to 2000 and we found more weapons by stop and frisk than any other means. Nothing puts a crimp on knuckleheads more than the old "get off the corner" stop.
Chicago and de:toilet. Get out now.
O.T., or is it?
"WASHINGTON – Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that his party won't permit a vote on any Supreme Court nominee submitted by President Barack Obama and will instead "revisit the matter" after the presidential election in November."
Thank God! But you still never know what these guys will do under a little pressure. At least now we won't get another Obama diversity hire until Trump nominates Barack next year. Winning!
Man, these correlation things sure are hard. I'm no good at them.
Know what I'm good at? Without trying, the thing that happens automatically? Little surprises, I'm guessing. Because of the surprises regarding ordinary unplanned things. Like bookcases. I did not think that could surprise, but it did. A lot more interest in those dumb bookcases than they deserve. The stacks of books were getting out of hand, I needed something. That's all. Yet the bookcases themselves were surprising to somebody else. So that's one.
Then second, the books on the shelves are not meant to surprise. They're just the books that I have. They're fat and scary as fat books scare people on sight and their titles are all classical titles. I say, "They're all pop-up books" and guy freaks the f out. At that surprise. Delighted, and I mean delighted to have discovered such a collected treasure. That became the thing for the whole rest of the time. Bookcases and flipping through pop-up books. And all they're doing is sitting quietly minding their own business being stored. That's all. No plan, no nothing. Just storage of books and it ended up delighting two for two different reasons. One, a solution to their own storage and design dilemma, another because pop-ups are fantastic and not scary at all.
As an online discussion at Lem's Levity grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Donald Trump approaches 1.
The poople in Chiraq demanded a cop free zone. They got it.
Wonder where Tippy Toes stands on this. On Pointe, I assume, poised to deflect blame onto somebody else. Gun owners, probably. The fiends. I binged this and got distracted by the fact that there is nothing in the media about the tiny liar's suppression of the video of the police shooting until after his election. These things happen ... par for the course it would seem. Unless it's in a red state in which case it's racismpalooza, game on, call the press, wake up Barry. Just like these black people in Chicago getting shot. Shit happens, man. Black lives matter when they can be politically leveraged. The rest of the time not so much.
There seems to be a correlation, but I wouldn't say that.
Why not?
The homicide clearance rate is an interesting statistic. It is the percentage of murders where the police close the investigation. Sometimes with an arrest, but in any case as far as the cops are concerned the case is closed.
Chicago was 26%. Of the 507 murders in 2015, 375 were unsolved.
St Louis was 20%. Of the 159 murders in 2015, 127 were unsolved.
Nationwide the homicide clearance rate is 64%
So……..what do ya think? Crappy cops? Or crappy citizens?
Has anyone ever moved out of a city because of complaints of police brutality? Has anyone with the means to move out ever stayed in a city with excessive crime rates?............There's a video of Suge Knight running over two people. There's a video of Errol Garner being subdued. Which was the the more gratuitous and reckless display of violence?........Do you think it's even possible for any celebrity or Dem politician to voice a word of criticism for Suge Knight or a word of sympathy for the white cops who have had their lives and careers ruined as a result of these confrontations?
Jim, I gotta go with the citizens. They don't want to snitch, because if they did, they are dead, dead, dead.
Allen-
Maybe, but then it is not fair to blame the mayor for the murder rate, I’m no fan of Emanuel, but I think we should fix responsibility where it is deserved. Dems own the urban centers, and the services that they provide (like police) are substandard. But perhaps the consumers of these services don’t pay anything in taxes, so they have no real complaint for what they get. Mitt’s 47% comment was as true then as it is now.
If you remove the top 5 homicide cities in the nation (all run by leftists I might add) the US ranking would drop significantly.
"As an online discussion at Lem's Levity grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Donald Trump approaches 1."
I'm simply smitten, and can't help it.
I wrote: There seems to be a correlation, but I wouldn't say that.
Lem wrote: Why not?
I was just using Trump speak -- saying something w/o saying it. Have you noticed? Trump is a master of the subjunctive.
As an online discussion at Lem's Levity grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Donald Trump approaches 1.
Trump is for Lems what Palin used to be for Althouse: lotsa hits.
All these X number of people shot in liberal big city are interesting in a way but its hard to really care.
I mean the people in Chicago seem cool with 500 murders/year so why should someone in the rest of the country care?
rcocean said...
All these X number of people shot in liberal big city are interesting in a way but its hard to really care.
I mean the people in Chicago seem cool with 500 murders/year so why should someone in the rest of the country care?
I think the good people of chicago are hoping that this number starts to exceed the level of the populations ability to keep manufacturing victims.
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