Keep a Stiff Upper Lip

Just before London was bombed during the Blitz, Britain's Ministry of Information produced a poster to raise morale and encourage the staid English to maintain order:

McJersey must have seen or gotten a copy of this poster, because he wasn't shocked or appalled or depressed by the weekend numbers - no, he was "disappointed"

• Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Monday that his crime-fighting strategies are “clearly working,” even though he was “disappointed” at the number of shootings across the city during the long July 4th weekend.
  
  “There’s still an unacceptable amount of violence in this city,” McCarthy said at a news conference.
  

We didn't know that there was an "acceptable" level of violence, but if he could just put a number to it, we'd have some idea of his so-called "goals.

In another article, he maintains that he has Rahm's full support:

• While homicides and shootings for the year are sharply down from a bloody 2012, Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy expressed disappointment Monday at the violent Fourth of July weekend but remained confident that police strategies are working.
  
  "I'm absolutely positive that I enjoy the mayor's confidence," McCarthy said in answer to a reporter's question. "He wants to know what's going on, just like I want to know."
  
  Still, the holiday bloodshed — more than 70 people were shot, 11 fatally, from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday evening — illustrated how the department will be tested as summer rolls on.

There's that continued comparison to last year, a year that we have pointed out time and time again, is the outlier, the one that ruins the curve.

And guess who is going to be blamed at CompStat this week?

• In light of last week's shootings, McCarthy said the department must better enforce curfew violations, particularly in the city's parks where two young boys were shot in separate incidents.
  
  "Having people shot at 12:30 at night in a city park can be prevented by the police if we clear that park," he said in reference to the shooting of 5-year-old Jaden Donald in Cooper Park early Friday.
  

Well gee, we used to have a park car up in many districts, but that kind of went unmanned three or four days a week because every district ended up short 50 or 100 coppers from just 8 years ago. Now somehow it's our fault that parents don't put their kids to bed at a reasonable hour. We imagine next month, we'll be tucking junior in after feeding him milk and cookies, before reading him a bedtime story.

Here's a new poster for McFantasyLand:

Wow, we feel better already!