Posted on 04/02/2013 5:39:17 AM PDT by Accessible Pudding
Almost exactly a year after Chicago's surging homicide rate caught the nation's attention, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy rolled out statistics Monday that showed a dramatic drop in the number of killings. At the same time, they tried to allay safety concerns in the wake of a weekend fight involving more than a dozen young people on the Magnificent Mile.
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A month of people deciding to kill fewer people doesn’t mean anyone has done anything right.
It’s a sprint to the cameras when it’s good news through sheer luck.
Have they been as visible while the blood’s been flowing recently?
Totally agree!
no bias here, their line of BS, backed by their numbers, backed by AP. Guess 500 in the “new norm”
Eventually it will happen.
When half the people kill the other half there is less people going forward to get killed.
The ballet dancer is BSing his public.
The same month they had one of the biggest snow storms of the year.
A few “dozen young people” got in a fight, eh? That was a WILDING. Remember that term?
The article says they are paying millions of dollars for police overtime, but didn’t go into details. Did they start profiling blacks and Hispanics, too?
/johnny
Rahm is the one that taught Obama how to tout the good news, even if it’s not a credible trend, like when the statistics for job losses aren’t as big one month compared to the general trend where month after month, the jobs losses were really bad news.
So, will Rahm be as quick to go to press with the homicide rate when the next month doesn’t follow the “trend” of the previous month, or when at the end of the year the statistics show a growth in the number of homicides?
Chicago is still the murder capital of the U.S., regardless of them having a “good” month.
But, I wonder how much of the news is more about the massaging of the statistics, as opposed to the real numbers that they won’t allow us to see. With democrats, when they have control of the statistics, you know that, we won’t be hearing the whole truth.
It’s simple, March this year was a lot colder than last. Wait till it warms up.
“A month of people deciding to kill fewer people doesn’t mean anyone has done anything right.”
It probably means they’ve either stopped self-reporting to the FBI database or they’ve (like Marion Barry) redefined what constitutes homicide.
We Americans see this practice on a daily basis. The stock market goes up because of what policies the president has put into place, but when the market drops it’s because of poor condition in other places of the world.
Surely the severe March weather had nothing to do with it!
Chicago had a big spike of murders in January -- most in the past 10 years. They responded by putting more officers on the street, paying overtime. Add in the effects of the weather, and there has been a big reduction.
It will be interesting to see if the trend holds.
I disagree completely. I refuse to give up my rights just to "save one life". Our rights have been hard-earned through the sacrifices of millions of soldiers and citizens, and I refuse to casually and ignorantly throw away their sacrifice just because some folks today choose to worship the Cult Of Victimology more than they cherish our Freedoms.
True enough. Stats are easy to manipulate.
Where they want the murder rate to be high they can create it through artificial means. Detroit is an open carry city with a very high “Justified Homicide” rate but those defensive killings are simply counted as murder. (The murder rate is high but not as high as we think it is)
It was a cold winter in Chicago. Don’t worry they will make up for it as it warms up.
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