J-Fled Watch

CBS, the national CBS, gives Shortshanks all the rope he needs to hang J-Fled out to dry by comparing Chicago to Newark, New Jersey? Good lord:

• Violent crime in this country has been declining in the past three years. Last year murder nationwide was down 10 percent. One exception to the trend is Chicago, where murder has become an epidemic. Newark, N.J., on the other hand, is turning its murder problem around.
  
  
• Since 2007, Chicago has seen its declining murder rate start to creep back up. Meanwhile, [...] Newark, N.J., is seeing just the opposite - with a drop of 25 percent, it seems to be getting its murder rate under control.
  
  
• "I believe every crime can be prevented," said Garry McCarthy, Newark's Police Director. "Every single crime can be prevented. You have to set the bar that high."
  
  McCarthy is turning things around. March 2010 was the first calendar month without a homicide here in 44 years. In the first quarter of this year, murders are down 58 percent from the 1st quarter of 2006 - just before McCarthy took over. Shootings are down 66 percent.

McCarthy? Not the same McCarthy who was a finalist for the J-Fled job? The same McCarthy who left town a wee bit irritated that he had wasted his time coming to such a bullshit interview process that was so obviously fixed? That McCarthy?

It sure is nice to see him successful elsewhere. He might have met the same fate as J-Fled if he came here. Of course, the entire CPD might have benefited from having a real leader instead of the pretender we have now. It is interesting how things turned out.