Try This Garry

So if it's true McNumbers is going back in time to look up arrest numbers, we would request that maybe on one of his sojourns into the hinterlands of Lawndale, Bronzeville, Englewood or Little Village, he and selected exempts actually see what's going on at ground level. To wit:

• perform three actual arrests; one misdemeanor, one juvenile PCS, and one violent offender for whatever charge they wish;
• complete on their own, a CLEAR system arrest for each incident. We'll see if the boys and girls down at IT can arrange an inconvenient CLEAR outage, an AIRA misfire and a few printer errors. In lockup, the ten-print machine will go down once during the tour;
  
• complete complaints, a TRR, an IOD, an Officer Battery Report, witness To-From and maybe for shits and giggles, chase paper with a fender-bender involved. Then sit around and wait for the detectives (twice - once for Youth, once for Violent Crimes) before getting Felony Review on the horn and waiting around for a lawyer to make a decision;

Then do it in under 9 hours, all while the radio keeps banging everyone for in-progress calls, shots fired, dope, burglaries, robberies, dope, domestics, disturbances, dope, suspicious cars suspicious people, suspicious odors, dope and more dope.

Arrests are down? So is crime according to you. But we still seem to be busier than we can remember being in years.