Wait....Weather Affects Crime?

Pick a side McTwit:

• Over the long July 4^th weekend, some 38 shooting incidents occurred throughout the city of Chicago. Nonetheless, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy says that the city’s crime-fighting has been stellar and was “clearly working,” although he admitted he was “disappointed” about the Independence Day statistics.
  
  “There’s still an unacceptable amount of violence in this city,” he said. McCarthy pointed to a 25 percent reduction in shootings over last year, as well as a 29 percent drop in the murder rate.
  
  He also blamed the summer weather for the number of shootings.

So now there is a direct correlation between weather and crime?

Someone else did a study and found a very shocking discovery:

• The New Orleans Times-Picayune ran a piece last Friday attempting to answer a question the entire world has been asking: Should ice cream be blamed for murders? “The correlation between homicides and ice cream sales—when ice cream sales increase, the rate of homicides also increases—has long been a topic in statistics and science classrooms,” writes John Harper, citing several recent cases of ice cream-related crime.

Satire? Yeah, a little bit. But enough truth that someone in McTwitter's office might actually develop a policy based on it.