Posted on 01/06/2018 8:41:14 AM PST by george76
Chicago Police have only charged a suspect in 12 percent of homicide cases in 2017, meaning city residents had an 88 percent chance of getting away with murder last year.
Chicago suffered 604 fatal shootings in 2017, 570 that have yet to be solved,
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Joining the homicide clearance rate on the bad side of 2017 was the carjacking rate, that was the highest in a decade. The Chicago Police Department reported 967 carjackings in 2017 through Dec. 27, a sharp 30 percent increase over 2016’s 682 total.
The past three years have shown a stark upward trend in car thefts
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Chicago police also spent $200 million on overtime payments in 2017, a 40 percent increase over 2016, that was already a record high.
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gov’t security services & their union hate it when they are told they are incompetant and overpaid.
Despite fancey modern gadgets , lavish budgets, and paramilitary weapons - US Police Departments solve fewer murders in 2017 than they did in 1965.
All gov’t agencies are run like the DMV.
The idea of Police solving crimes is built upon one simple thing.
The cops need to be smarter than the criminals they hunt.
34 divided by 604 is 0.056, or 5.6%.
I live and work in Chicago for more than 20 years. I view this news report as good thing. People outside Chicago do not know about those murders. Vast majority of them are gang related and concentrated certain part of neighborhoods. The victims are no less innocent than shooters. There is no justice missed or lost here. A lot of people in my city would privately prefer they kill each other off so we can save tax dollars from prosecuting, jailing and medicals. People here know a way around and form living habits of “when to go where” and live comfortably as long as those crime do not get spilled over.
Police save black lives.
Lesson? Don’t kill someone in a small town. Everyone knows everyone, and most cops spend their time passing out traffic tickets and would love to investigate a murder.
Chicago? They don’t care.
Very convenient rationalization.
FReepers would be shocked to know how little crime is charged in their locales, even in what are considered “safe” cities and counties. In my town, considered tha safest city in the county, only 11% of property crimes (e.g., theft, burglary, fraud, vandalism) are charged, and less than half of violent crimes (e.g., assault, robbery, murder).
How many of the “police” are in on the child trafficking
taken by used cars and trucks,
and the narcotics brought in by Obama/Iran through
the used cars?
How many are on the ‘take’ with Obama and his wife
and her brother?
True. Avoid Englewood, Auburn Gresham, Austin and Lawndale and you will reduce your chance of death by many multiples.
Chicago cops have a moniker for these killings. “NHI” or “No Humans Involved”.
They’re not really trying all that hard to “solve” anything.
I have a lot of clients in the City. The Loop is no problem. I’ll go there anytime of the day, though I’m always armed. In the outlying neighborhoods it depends on where. But my default is to get in and out before 10:30 am.
The Morlocks don’t usually get moving until early afternoon.
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Crook County Board President Preckwinkle dropped the bullet tax, but the firearm tax is still in place.
https://www.cookcountyil.gov/news/president-preckwinkle-highlights-county’s-firearm-tax
Don’t forget Pullman and anywhere in Garfield Park.
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Well, at Mandalay Bay, the escape was 100%.
Maybe it is something in the water.
Hillary grew up in Chicago area. Maybe that is why she is able to get away with murder.
Your attitude is precisely why I never, never visit Chicago. As a citizen of Wisconsin, I prefer to shop in neighborhoods where I know my way around. In fact, I rarely travel south of Brown Deer Road! We’ve got our own carjacking and gang shootings to contend with.
In Chicago, about 80-85% of VICTIMS have a criminal record. As you put it, “A lot of people in my city would privately prefer they kill each other off so we can save tax dollars from prosecuting, jailing and medicals.”
Makes sense. Let the criminals kill the criminals.
I cant imagine how big of a detective bureau a city would need to keep up with that homicide rate. Investigating homicides is extremely time consuming. CPD I’m sure is overwhelmed.
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