Chicago Police today announced an 11 percent decrease in homicides and an eight percent drop in total crimes compared to this time last year.
During the same time, crime dropped in 22 of the 25 police districts, according to preliminary statics through the end of May 2009.
Police officials credit the decline to the work by officers on the street, implementation of new crime reduction strategies, and community involvement.
The headline should probably read "Reported Crime Drops 8%" seeing as how a large portion of the drop is police taking two, three and four hours to respond to disturbances and misdemeanor incidents that citizens finally decide isn't worth sticking around for and head home.
As far as we can tell, backlogs aren't down, shootings are up significantly, and manpower remains a problem. Tommy Skilling maintains his position as the Crime Reduction weatherman. We still haven't strung together a series of 90 degree days yet. An 11% reduction is about 25 homicides below last year? We know the number of supposed "school aged homicides" is up over 60%. Won't somebody think of the children!?!
What's the percentage of "death investigations" we're up from 2008?
As far as we can tell, backlogs aren't down, shootings are up significantly, and manpower remains a problem. Tommy Skilling maintains his position as the Crime Reduction weatherman. We still haven't strung together a series of 90 degree days yet. An 11% reduction is about 25 homicides below last year? We know the number of supposed "school aged homicides" is up over 60%. Won't somebody think of the children!?!
What's the percentage of "death investigations" we're up from 2008?
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