Chicago Murder rates plummet

[4thPointOfContact]

People, people, people....it's CHICAGO, the home of doing things "the Chicago Way (tm)."

The statistics will say what the people in Chicago want the statistics to say if the statistics know what's good for 'em.


Yeah, I'm going with cooked books, too.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

http://politics.suntimes.com/articl...laws-hamper-crime-fighting/mon-04142014-118pm
Jon Seidel and Kim Janssen, "FBI chief blames ‘ingrained’ gang culture for city homicide rate", Chicago Sun-Times, 14 Apr 2014.

Chicago’s “ingrained” gang culture is to blame for homicide rates far higher than other large U.S. cities, FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday. Speaking a day after one of the city’s warmest and bloodiest weekends .... Asked why Chicago has failed to cut homicide levels as successfully as New York and Los Angeles, Comey told reporters,“Chicago has a larger and more ingrained and sophisticated street gang structure than many American cities.”

Sitting off to Comey's side with a grumpy look on his face was Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy.

....McCarthy again complained that “lax state and federal gun laws” are hampering his department’s ability to stem street violence.

My observation is that there are cities that have laxer gun laws than Chicago with lower crime rates (incidents per 100,000 population per year), less of an ingrained gangster subculture and police departments that focus on dealing with criminal acts. "Lax state and federal gun laws" has been the left's crime mantra since the 1960s but gun laws are not the driving factor. Some lax gun law areas like El Paso TX (pop 600,000+) qualify as big cities and have lower homicide rates than the national average. What is hampering Chicago PD's ability to stem street violence is their obsession with gun control and inability to address crime and criminal control. Tough gun laws (which always burden the law-abiding and are circumvemted by the criminal) will not fix generations of gangster culture in Chicago.

 

[Robert]

The op has been addressed and then some. Let's call this one done.