Welcome to Chicago.
The scorecard for this past week, per HeyJackass.com.
Shot & Killed: 6
Shot & Wounded: 90
Total Shot: 96
Total Homicides: 8
That’s right: Nearly 100 people shot.
What do the Chicago “elite” do?
They blame the cops. One. Two.
But they do so without looking more deeply at the statistics:
(Chicago Reader) – A statistic recently cited from coast to coast: 74 percent of those shot by Chicago police from 2008 through 2015 were black, although black people make up only a third of the city’s population.
It’s from the report by the Police Accountability Task Force, published last week. The statistic “gives validity to the widely held belief that the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color,” the report asserts.
The New York Times agreed with that assessment in an editorial the day after the report was published. “The sense of injustice and grievance that pervades the black community . . . is borne out by the police data,” the editorial said, citing the shooting statistic. The Associated Press News Service cited the stat in its story, which was headlined, “Report: Chicago police have ‘no regard’ for minority lives.” Atlantic Cities ran virtually the same headline over a story that cited the “devastating” shooting disparity.
…One of the complexities: although 81 percent of those shot by police were minorities, many of the officers who shot them were minorities as well.
…the vast majority of the shootings occurred in census tracts that were among the city’s poorest, that were at least 90 percent black, and that had the highest crime rates.
Yes, while blacks comprise only about one-third of the population in Chicago. Yes, the vast majority of those shot by police are blacks. However, the vast majority of crime in the Windy City is committed by a small cohort of blacks as well. Here’s a graphic on the homicides alone.
The assailant graphic is in the lower right.
They want more gun control.
Meanwhile, Chicago’s “justice system” fails to send bad guys with guns away to prison.
Chicago’s grim murder trend blamed on light sentencing, misguided reforms
Chicago (Tribune) – …The cycle of violence has resulted in more than 800 shootings so far this year, including seven shootings and one murder on April 4 alone. Escalante’s successor, former Chicago Police Department Chief of Patrol Eddie Johnson, says the rate of murders and shootings can’t be reversed until the criminal justice system begins to hold offenders accountable.
Florida’s model works to control crime.
Florida puts bad guys with guns in prison for a long time. Specifically a generation or more.
What does Florida have besides lots of sunshine, beaches, guns and warm weather? The lowest recorded rate of firearm violent crime in history.
It’s really not that hard. Put violent criminal actors in prison and crime will go down.
Until and unless Illinois decides to put bad guys in prison, we will see lots of violent crime.
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