The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates

Chicago Magazine ^ | April 7, 2014, at 9:36 a.m. | David Bernstein and Noah Isackson

[Zhang Fei]

At the woman’s feet, detectives found a curled strand of telephone wire. Draped over her right hand was a different kind of wire: thin and brown. The same brown wire was wrapped around each armrest of a wooden chair next to her.

The following day, July 24, a pathologist in the Cook County medical examiner’s office noticed something else that had been obscured by rotting skin: a thin gag tied around the corpse’s mouth.

Thanks to some still-visible tattoos, detectives soon identified this unfortunate woman: Tiara Groves, a 20-year-old from Austin. She was last seen walking alone in the wee hours of Sunday, July 14, near a liquor store two miles from the warehouse.

On October 28, a pathologist ruled the death of Tiara Groves a homicide by “unspecified means.” This rare ruling means yes, somebody had killed Groves, but the pathologist couldn’t pinpoint the exact cause of death.

Given the finding of homicide—and the corroborating evidence at the crime scene—the Chicago Police Department should have counted Groves’s death as a murder. And it did. Until December 18. On that day, the police report indicates, a lieutenant overseeing the Groves case reclassified the homicide investigation as a noncriminal death investigation. In his writeup, he cited the medical examiner’s “inability to determine a cause of death.”

That lieutenant was Denis Walsh—the same cop who had played a crucial role in the alleged cover-up in the 2004 killing of David Koschman, the 21-year-old who died after being punched by a nephew of former mayor Richard M. Daley. Walsh allegedly took the Koschman file home. For years, police officials said that it was lost. After the Sun-Times reported it missing, the file mysteriously reappeared.

Back to Tiara Groves. With the stroke of a computer key, she was airbrushed out of Chicago’s homicide statistics

[yldstrk]

If you took the time to read the article, you would understand the reason the crime went down is because crimes, including murders are being systematically reclassified as not crimes.

[Retvet]

It’s Chicago under Democratic control. Why didn’t the Democrat Mayor not ask Governor to bring in National guard units under Marshall law? Maybe because racist Democrats plan is extermination of blacks.

[MagnoliaB]

“If you took the time to read the article”

Why so testy? I read the article. They are lying or they were in 2014 when this article came out. What else was new during the 8 years of Zero? They lied about EVERYTHING to make themselves look good to the masses. If you took the time to look at HEYJACKASS and clicked where I told you to, you would have seen that they weren’t fooling anyone even in 2014.

[monkeyshine]

The Wire ran 5 seasons on HBO. Here are some clips from the show related to statistical manipulation of crime (warning, some profanity) - though to be fair that’s just one facet of this excellent drama about a Baltimore police detail out to capture the city’s biggest drug dealer(s), and all the politics they deal with from the brass, the city council, the court system, and even their informants and other gangsters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_6_8NOfwI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qD5qm8In4

Teachers do it too... (former cop turned teacher)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ogxZxu6cjM

It’s a little ironic that it takes place in Baltimore, because The Wire had the Freddy Grey issue in one of their episodes years before Grey was ever arrested. Today in Baltimore murders and other violent crime is way up, as the police stopped using plain-clothes cops and unmarked cars in response to complaints about their tactics.

[Seaplaner]

It's not just Chicago and New York - this is happening all over the country.

I talked last year w a retired LEO about this, and it's commonly known to happen in many larger cities throughout the country. (One suspects Dem mayors and govs involved, but one does not know.)

The article, btw, is from 2014, and one suspects that, if anything, the faking of crime states has gotten much worse.

[GOPJ]

You’re right - very common in democrat run cities. The worst part is the corrupt FBI knows it and still accepts the statistics they know are lies. When Peter Strzok and Page sluts are running the place what can we expect? (hint: corruption, bias, hatred and lies...)