Look at how few arrests are made, and guess how few convictions there are from those arrests.
Too many Murders in Chicago, and other cities, are not being solved. m/r
Last week, President Donald Trump again expressed concern
that the violence in Chicago was “totally out of control.” “We’re going
to have to do something about Chicago,” the president said. While it’s
unclear what Trump has in mind, it is undoubtedly true that the Chicago
police department is a mess, with the city suffering ever increasing
murder rates.
Some analysts, such as Heather Mac Donald in the Wall Street Journal,
focus on the damage created by President Obama trying to run local
police departments via the U.S. Justice Department, but the problems
facing Chicago go well beyond that and certainly aren’t new.The quality of Chicago’s policing has been deteriorating for decades. Back in 1991, 67 percent of murderers were arrested. When Mayor Richard M. Daley finally left office 20 years later, in 2011, the arrest rate was down to 30 percent. This troubling drop only continued after Rahm Emanuel became mayor, hitting a new low of 20 percent in 2016.
Unfortunately, the true figure is even worse, because Chicago has been intentionally misclassifying murders as non-murders.
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