Levine Misses the Point

The answer is out there Jay. We've said it tons of times:

• Twenty-five Chicago Public School students have been murdered this year. As shocking as that number is, there is another figure that's very disturbing as well: the number of students who have been shot in a 16-month period is enough to fill an elementary school - 508 students, according to school officials. CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine asks why, and what is being done to stop it.
  
  
• ...on Friday night, an 18-year-old CPS graduate was shot and killed. It was just weeks after his 17-year-old brother was among three young men murdered by an alleged gunman just recently acquitted of murder - within view of a police blue light camera, which anonymous officers on the Internet claim are all too often being used to replace a shrinking force of street cops.

Jay, did you miss this link in the New Orleans press? Shortshanks is quoted by the mayor of New Orleans as replacing cops with cameras. Why don't you call Nagin, get a verification, then confront Daley with it? The file a few FOIA requests for manpower numbers 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago and 20 years ago. Peg that to the crime numbers. Then start finding out how many cameras are down, broken, unmanned, empty or simply the result of under the table deals for connected firms.

In other words, be a reporter.