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Chicago’s murder rate drops – follow-up

April 10, 2014 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)

In an earlier post on Chicago’s declining murder rate, the decline didn’t seem to prove anything about gun control or gun ownership (in any direction) and I asked “So, what happened?”

V the K suggested a different explanation by sending this link, The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates. Short answer: Someone has been cooking the books.

On October 28, a pathologist ruled the death of Tiara Groves a homicide…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…

The change stunned officers. Current and former veteran detectives who reviewed the Groves case at Chicago’s request were just as incredulous.

Was it just a coincidence, some wondered, that the reclassification occurred less than two weeks before the end of the year, when the city of Chicago’s final homicide numbers for 2013 would be tallied? …

For the case of Tiara Groves is not an isolated one. Chicago [Magazine, the authors] conducted a 12-month examination of the Chicago Police Department’s crime statistics going back several years…We identified 10 people…whose cases were reclassified…, downgraded to more minor crimes, or even closed as noncriminal incidents—all for illogical or, at best, unclear reasons.

This troubling practice goes far beyond murders…Chicago found dozens of other crimes, including serious felonies such as robberies, burglaries, and assaults, that were misclassified, downgraded to wrist-slap offenses, or made to vanish altogether…

Does the problem start at the top? Evidently:

Many officers of different ranks and from different parts of the city recounted instances…One detective refers to the “magic ink”: the power to make a case disappear. Says another: “The rank and file don’t agree with what’s going on. The powers that be are making the changes.”

…sources describe a practice that has become widespread at the same time that top police brass have become fixated on demonstrating improvement in Chicago’s woeful crime statistics…

…the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil pols on Chicago’s City Council have mostly accepted the police department’s crime numbers at face value. So have most in the media. You can hardly turn on the news without hearing McCarthy or Mayor Rahm Emanuel proclaiming unquestioned: Murders down 18 percent in 2013! Overall crime down 23 percent! Twelve thousand fewer crime victims! “These days, everything is about media and public opinion,” says one longtime officer. “If a number makes people feel safe, then why not give it to them?”

There’s much more, including a Part 2 yet to come.

Filed Under: Chicago Politics, Democrat incompetence, Gun Control, Political Scandals Tagged With: Chicago, chicago crime rate scandal, Democrat incompetence, Gun Control, Political Scandals, rahm emanuel

Chicago murder rate drops

April 7, 2014 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)

…after Illinois loosened gun control:

On July 9, 2013, a bill to recognize Illinois gun owners’ right to carry concealed firearms was passed by both chambers of the state Legislature. Illinois became the last state in the nation to allow [it]…

On Tuesday, the Chicago Police Department announced that the city experienced its lowest murder rate since 1958 in the first quarter of 2014. There were 6 fewer murders than the same timeframe in 2013 — a 9 percent drop — and 55 fewer murders than 2012, police said…

BUT (and as Jason Howerton responsibly notes), coincidence is nothing like causation:

All crime is down 25 percent from 2013 and police say they have confiscated over 1,300 illegal guns in the last three months…

It should also be noted that the first concealed carry permits were issued in late February, so the decrease in crime can’t yet be attributed to more people carrying guns.

So, what happened? Did the killers in Chicago reach a point where a large number of them had been killed (by victims possibly, or by each other), leaving the law-abiding residents in greater peace? That may be about to happen in Detroit:

Detroit…police chief, James Craig, has advised “fed up” residents to exercise their Second Amendment rights if they feel their life is in danger.

He said criminals should be afraid to break into homes or commit other crimes because it could be the last thing they ever do. Craig also pointed out, “you’re not always going to have time to dial 911.”

…the number of fatal self-defense shootings are on the rise in Detroit. There had already been 10 fatal self-defense shootings in the city as of March 27, while there were only 15 in all of 2013.

Fascinating issues.

Filed Under: Chicago Politics, Gun Control, Second Amendment Tagged With: Chicago, Constitutional Rights of Self-Protection, detroit, Gun Control, murder rate

CA and IL: worst credit ratings

July 28, 2013 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)

Just a reminder that, of all the 50 States (or 57-58 States, if you’re Obama), California and Illinois continue to have the worst credit ratings.

That means they’re the most financially ill-run States; the ones in the most trouble with debt. They have swapped spots in 2013, with California upgraded from A- to A and Illinois downgraded from A to A-. But they’re still the bottom two.

By the way, Rahm Emanuel’s duchy of Chicago is getting low on cash, as it faces rising debt and expenses. The next Detroit?

Filed Under: Big Government Follies, California politics, Liberalism Run Amok Tagged With: Big Government Follies, california, California politics, Chicago, detroit bankruptcy, illinois, Liberalism Run Amok, worst credit ratings

IRONY ALERT: Gay Activist Gets Bitten By Own Tactics

May 31, 2013 by GayPatriot

Gay community leader in Chicago is sued for doing to a Christian what this gays are always claiming Christians do to gays.

[A] former employee of the gay establishment Sidetrack the Video Bar is suing owner Art Johnston (the self-styled “Chicago’s Harvey Milk” and inductee into  the local “Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame”) for four counts of sexual harassment  (and hostile work environment), religious discrimination (and hostile work  environment), retaliation, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Sorry, I think this story is awesome.  Man bites dog.

After all… #NOH8 !!!  “Equality” !!!!

-Bruce (@GayPatriot)

Filed Under: Equality (Real or Faux?), Gay Leftist Lickspittles, Gay Politics, Gay Victimization Tagged With: Art Johnson, Boystown, Chicago, Harvey Milk, Sidetrack

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