Posted on 01/07/2020 4:53:02 AM PST by simpson96
When Mayor Lori Lightfoot met with top Chicago Police Department officials a week ago, she had a number in mind: 500.
Lightfoot pressed the police brass on what they intended to do to keep the 2019 body count in Chicago below 500, police sources say.
As of Tuesday evening, the police department’s murder count for the year was 492. Officials say they’re hopeful that total won’t surpass 500 by the time the new year begins at midnight.
The 2019 murder total is expected to be the lowest since 2015.
The mayor, elected in April, could get a symbolic victory in a year when she butted heads with President Donald Trump over what he called Chicago’s “crime wave.”
“We’ve been looking at this 500 number for a while,” said Anthony Guglielmi, chief police spokesman. “The police department has been working since 2016 to get violence back to what it was before that year. We are nowhere near where we want to be as a city.”
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Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.
Besides 92.3835% of all statistics are made up.
And they still vote there some go back to the 1800”s.
LIGHTFOOT wants to keep the numbers low, because every vote is needed come November, 2020.
Corruption equals government.
Many had problems with Richard Daley and his patronage machine, but at least the city wasn’t an open killing zone and things worked reasonably well.
Simple...just don’t count some or reclassify from murder.
Police have no control over those shootings.
How does she expect them to accomplish that feat?
Be creative! When the count reaches 490, dump all the bodies outside the city limits.
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