Homicides Down
Well, you knew this was coming. Homicides are down since last year....allegedly:
- Chicago Police have announced that through the first six months of the year there were nine fewer murders than in 2013 and 79 less than in 2012.
Police reported 171 murders through June 29. During that time, the Cook County medical examiner’s office tallied 180 homicides. The difference comes from cases detectives ruled self-defense or involuntary manslaughter.
And of course, deliberate falsification of the numbers as outlined in the Chicago Magazine article about miscounting crime. How many "Death Investigations" does the Department have open at the moment?
In any event, shooting incidents are up:
In any event, shooting incidents are up:
- 2013 - 833
- 2014 - 880 (+47)
Shooting victims are up:
- 2013 - 1018
- 2014 - 1103 (+85)
So from those numbers, we can safely say that Contact Cards, ANOV's, home visits and "taking it to the alley" has resulted in increases to the violence totals.
But thanks to modern medicine, Chicago is allegedly down 9 killings for the year. Better response times by ALS equipped fire apparatus and ambulances along with medical advances pioneered on the battlefields of the War on Terror, deserve all of the credit. We'll done!
But thanks to modern medicine, Chicago is allegedly down 9 killings for the year. Better response times by ALS equipped fire apparatus and ambulances along with medical advances pioneered on the battlefields of the War on Terror, deserve all of the credit. We'll done!
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
73 Comments:
coldest winter in 20 yrs
most rainfall in June in 20 yrs (search internet for weather story, possibly WGN, a week ago)
Skilling has messed with our homicide numbers during winter and spring
What does he have for us, in the summer?
Could it be that some of the gunmen are using less lethal ammunition? Say, inexpensive FMJ instead of more expensive hollow points?
They are so nuts about these shootings and himicides... Rdos cancelled and all time due restricted for tac, gangs, units, incident teams etc.. Not to mention no time off for us on the watch.. All time due restricted on the watch also from Thursday through Monday. 26 years on and I can't even get time due or BFd on the watch off for any of these days. These bosses suck
It hasn't even been hot.......yet. We'll catch up real quick, watch and see.
"To paraphrase Thucydides, words like “borders” and “occupation” have had their ordinary meanings changed, and been forced to take meanings that serve tyranny and aggression. And we who accept those new meanings are complicit in the resulting injustice that follows."
Guest Post: The Language Of Despotism
Submitted by Bruce Thornton of The Hoover Institution,
Long before 1984 gave us the adjective “Orwellian” to describe the political corruption of language and thought, Thucydides observed how factional struggles for power make words their first victims. Describing the horrors of civil war on the island of Corcyra during the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote, “Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.” Orwell explains the reason for such degradation of language in his essay “Politics and the English Language”: “Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
Tyrannical power and its abuses comprise the “indefensible” that must be verbally disguised. The gulags, engineered famines, show trials, and mass murder of the Soviet Union required that it be a “regime of lies,” as the disillusioned admirer of Soviet communism Pierre Pascal put it in 1927.
Our own political and social discourse must torture language in order to disguise the failures and abuses of policies designed to advance the power and interests of the “soft despotism,” as Tocqueville called it, of the modern Leviathan state and its political caretakers. Meanwhile, in foreign policy the transformation of meaning serves misguided policies that endanger our security and interests.
read the whole thing with example after example of the current political realm.
Was just telling my partner today no one dies. These ghetto shit birds are getting shot with just leg or arm wounds. Then when they do catch a solid chest shot they are getting brought back to life to take more link/CHA/chips/red-drink. Haven't seen a solid 0110 in weeks.
CELL PHONES is why they are down.
Thank god the taxpayers are paying minimum $250k per shooting or Jesse Jackson will be a marching!!
880 shootings x $250k per shooting =
$220,000,000 in your tax dollars wasted just in idiots shooting other idiots.
OT- as of 0600, still no direct deposit. Is something wrong with payroll?
Wow---down nine for the year. Where is the cake and coffee party?
As Orwell wrote, "in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Thank you CFD!
I don't think it can be attributed by better response times by ALS ambulances. Then again, those numbers are manipulated just as much as the crime numbers. Having a paramedic on an ALS engine or truck on scene in 4 or 5 minutes, in the eyes of the CFD brass, is just as effective as an ambulance, completely disregarding the fact that it might take another 20 minutes for an ambulance to arrive on scene.
But hey, at least we were able to get an ambulance on scene in 3 minutes for that 20 year old make having a fever for a week a few minutes before. It's just too bad that after that ambo gets committed on that call that chalkie got shot.
Think it's not a big deal? I bet you will when it's one us that gets shot, and we're waiting 25 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.
If the sheeple want to keep their heads in the sand so be it. The rest of the metro area and country believe otherwise.
So the boss' and rahm all slap themselves on the back while the nation keeps cracking jokes about chiraq.
No Broken Windows here!
With each little lie the much bigger lies continue.
And we who accept those new meanings as they change the definitions of words are complicit in the resulting injustice that follows.
Oh it's just a homicide number, right?
Well how ya liking it when it then becomes just your pension numbers, your promotion tests, cost of living raises that have little in common with the real cost of living..etc..etc..
Charges filed against Mike Shields for stalking a female worker at X-Sport Fitness in Old Town.
Poor girl transferred to different location because she feared this psychopath.
This guy is a predator.
Our boss points out that the number of murders - while emotional - is meaningless for our purposes. What counts is how many shooting incidents.
Wow!
We reject this crime is down b.s.
They are talking outta their academic asses again.
First, homicides running at about one a day and they act like that's the way it's suppose to be.
Next, on average even if one were to consider their numbers are they statistically significant or noise?
Finally, as SCC points out.
Why is it assumed that ANY of Garry or Rahm's initiatives are the causation of the reported changes! First responders and ER docs are getting an awe-full lot of practice/experience.
Why shouldn't doctors, nurses, paramedics be credited for saving more victims instead of Garry's crime fighting B.S.
The city that works lol..
(pic) flooding on I-190 at Mannheim clogged traffic so badly, people were WALKING to O'Hare to catch their flight!
The pilgrimage to O'hare.
(pic)How bad are things on I-190 near O'Hare this morning? This bad:
Hope you enjoyed your stay in Rahm Emanuel World-Class Sanctuary City.
Y'all come back now!
OMG don't make me laugh! Your killing me.....I might be the next homicide laughing to death,down graded to self inflicted induced suicide by humor or reality!
>>>>> 'Police reported 171 murders through June 29. During that time, the Cook County medical examiner’s office tallied 180 homicides' <<<<<
Yeah, well HeyJackass! has 190 homicides through June 29, I think I'll believe them.
meanwhile midnight cars in 010 are waiting 3 hours sometimes longer to get a car because our intelligent leader of 010 threw a bitch fit about check off
Seems the reporters failed to look at the recent articles about how the city is killing crime and lying to the taxpayers.
Oh well, vote early and often!!
Ot. Phenomenal job by 3rd watch Sgt JS and PO AP saving a girl attempting to jump from a bridge in 025 last night. AP u go girl. 1st watch 025
6/30/2014 07:51:00 AM
As someone who was on scene, this was one of the best actions of officers that I've seen in a long, long time
Homicide this!
Not the case in 011. Up to 25 homicides from 12 or 13 last year. That's a huge increase and xo is losing his marbles. Hopefully he sent packing soon!!
Just A Citizen:
Apparently basic math escaped the higher educated...
Anonymous said...
OT- as of 0600, still no direct deposit. Is something wrong with payroll?
7/01/2014 06:05:00 AM
Mine was in at 0115 ,,
Anonymous said...
It hasn't even been hot.......yet. We'll catch up real quick, watch and see.
7/01/2014 12:17:00 AM
Been in the high 80's quite a few times in the last week
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT- as of 0600, still no direct deposit. Is something wrong with payroll?
7/01/2014 06:05:00 AM
If you dd to the credit union, they SIT ON the check. If you dd elsewhere, it should be credited by now. (Got my retirement check dd'd to my bank over the weekend - sorry. What a pleasant change.)
For you civilians who read here, yes, there is a grace period this year for city sticker enforcement. It runs til 15 July.
So, you have til 15 July to figure out that oddball new pricing schedule and go buy your stickers.
So, by the city's math you can have lets say 1000 shootings & if only 250 die that's a success??????
The important number is the amount of shootings. It sounds cold but the number that die is irrelevant.
I can see the new motto now to draw tourists:
Come to Chicago! Meet new and exciting people and try to avoid getting shot or killed by them!
OT: Happy Anniversary to 85-04. Everyone can go now 29 and a day. God Bless you all!
Retired
Tactical teams should be assigned in uniform to beat cars . No police officer should be forced to work 10-99 when tact teams are 2 man .
$220,000,000 in your tax dollars wasted just in idiots shooting other idiots.
7/01/2014 05:11:00 AM
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Let's pull this $$ off everyone's LINK card. A shooting goes off in your geographic district, every LINK card within that district gets "taxed" a percentage of the $250,000 to keep the idiot alive.
Maybe they would get a sense of "contributing to society" when they see their LINK card SHORT $80-$100 for the month to help pay for Rufus's gunshot wound.
"Stop da killin', my LINK card be short dis month"
Anonymous said...
OT- as of 0600, still no direct deposit. Is something wrong with payroll?
7/01/2014 06:05:00 AM
Maybe you should stop using Joe Blow Savings and Loan. My DD was credited at 01:26 hrs this AM.
Its the violence inheriting the system. Help me I'm being repressed.
As I listen to the talking heads on TV talk about all the "blood and treasure" we have expended in the Middle East and how this situation is unwinnable I can't help but think the same for our south and west sides.
Religious zealots that take advantage and control the masses. Roving, warring bands of animals that commit daily atrocities that a civilized man cannot comprehend. The good are held captive by the violent thugs. The only change is that things have gotten worse.
Actually, our animals are more despicable. They live in the greatest civilization on earth and choose to waste it.
I want to send a warm welcome to the new Lt. in charge of the Court Section ! The old one was dumped Friday !
Can you smell the desperation? If you want to see what happens when no one signs up for VRI take a look at the 4th of July. Less than 100 people signed up for VRI (I heard 40-60) and they want to cancel the DOH for the benchwarmers at 35th street and make them work the the hood. They've also opened up supplemental too.
Can anyone here tell me if the Chicago Crime a Commission is still operating?
I was very, very impressed with the CCC's Gang Book that was published in 2012.
But, I noted that Jody Weis resigned as head of CCC after only 8 months. The CCC web site doesn't list any current programs and I couldn't reach a live person on their advertised ph contact #.
What's the inside scoop at CCC?
Left Behind in Hyde Park
OT. Lt. Oakes dumped from court section to 004. Ouch.
Dear HeebBeeGeeBeeMac,
My hemorrhoids were down yesterday. I expect an early July flare up though. It's my personal crime barometer that I'd like to share with your efforts to re-elect our mayor.
I'll be in touch soon with the next forecast. I'm having a bran muffin, things ought go smooth for a bit.
Cheers mate.
4:57 PM
Currently, I'm on sabbatical while managing two salt water taffy stands on the boardwalks in Wildwood and Cape May, NJ.
Visit the Jersey Shore and stop by. LEO Discount: 3%
4:57 PM
Phone the Chicago Crime Commission [(312)372-0101] during weekday business hours. Ask for Mr. J.R. Davis and request contact info for Mr. Jody Weis. The DISGRACED LYING COWARD will answer your inquiries (if he so chooses). Don't hold your breath awaiting a response.
7/01/2014 07:42:00 AM if this is true then he needs 30 pending and a psych evaluation.
Anonymous said...
OT- as of 0600, still no direct deposit. Is something wrong with payroll?
7/01/2014 06:05:00 AM
You have nothing better to do than check on direct deposit at 0600.
"Happy 2 Years" without a contract!
Anonymous said...
OT- as of 0600, still no direct deposit. Is something wrong with payroll?
What else do you worry about? Has to be more important things unless you were planning on spending your paycheck at 0600.
Anonymous said...
OT- as of 0600, still no direct deposit. Is something wrong with payroll?
7/01/2014 06:05:00 AM
Yea,the worlds coming to an end
Our boss points out that the number of murders - while emotional - is meaningless for our purposes. What counts is how many shooting incidents.
7/01/2014 08:00:00 AM
Neither of these numbers mean a damn thing to the good tax paying working man. What matters is that we can go downtown or out anywhere unmolested. That our children are safe at school and that while we are away, our homes are looked after by enough police officers to make a difference.
The Mayor and the Superintendent have failed at all of these and they are worse because of them. They should both go.
I Keep observing the male usual trolling through the neighborhood in 016. Be observant and tell your neighbors not to hesitate to call 911 if they observe them on anyones property (in their yards) or acting suspiciously. You don't want to be their next victim.
RE: Anonymous said...
meanwhile midnight cars in 010 are waiting 3 hours sometimes longer to get a car because our intelligent leader of 010 threw a bitch fit about check off/
So what your saying is that the 3rd Watch cars should get called in 6 or 7 hours into their tour of duty, and then get sent home so the 1st watch cars can get sent out without waiting? How about bitching that the Department is dangerously short of vehicles and is wasting about 20 manpower hours a day per 3rd and 1st Watch shift; in every district. That's about 900 hours a day city-wide, and doesn't even take into account the additional wear and tear, and fuel on the few vehicles we have left. The commander from 010 may be a stroke, but this is happening in nearly every district across the City. In my District the 1st watch takes out any cars that might be available in the lot, the sergeants get the cars from the 3rd Watch guys who are tied up on arrests and the rest wait for cars. It's usually 3-5 cars a night that are down for a couple hours. The 3rd Watch cars stay out until the end of their shift then turn the cars over. It seems like you're a guy who wants to sit in at the beginning of your shift waiting for an available car, and then wants to get called in a few hours early at the end to give up your car and go home. NOPE! Stay out and handle the jobs, You should refocus your attention on the lack of cars and how they should be making more available for us.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I want to send a warm welcome to the new Lt. in charge of the Court Section ! The old one was dumped Friday !
7/01/2014 04:35:00 PM
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What happened?
Charges filed against Mike Shields for stalking a female worker at X-Sport Fitness in Old Town.
Poor girl transferred to different location because she feared this psychopath.
This guy is a predator.
7/01/2014 07:42:00 AM
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Which Mike Shields are you talking about, FOP Shields or Obama Shields?
If it's FOP Shields, he's a married man with a wife and kids, plus he went to a catholic high school, so
it must be the other one, Obama Shields
>>>Anonymous said...
Can you smell the desperation? If you want to see what happens when no one signs up for VRI take a look at the 4th of July. Less than 100 people signed up for VRI (I heard 40-60) and they want to cancel the DOH for the benchwarmers at 35th street and make them work the hood. They've also opened up supplemental too.
7/01/2014 04:35:00 PM<<<
Talked to a friend of mine who said that he has four days off canceled in the month of July plus the VRI day and courts. Lots of OT money but no family life. He has great kids and they miss him and somehow they seem to understand a little of it.
But damn it cops are approaching burnout and these people make mistakes at home and on the job.
Rahm, hire some more police and get rid of McDufass before the BLUE VOTE GETS RID OF YOU.
I saw a short clip of McDufass interviewed on TV today. The "reporter" asked him about murders being reclassified as other kinds of cases. He said that there were two kinds of Crime Reporting system, ours and the Uniform Crime Reporting System that has been around since the 1930's. If we used the UCR System it would be six months before we knew how crime was trending.
I wanted to slap him upside the head for thinking that everyone is that stupid to believe him. We don't use punch cards any more. We have our own computers and can give totals every day and even hourly.
The sooner this goof is gone the sooner we might get a chance to undo some of the damage.
Register and VOTE.
Heres my question to mcstupid, hey idiot if everyone has a ccw in Chicago now a days how come the mudra rate be down? Didn't you say that cow was not the way to go in chicago? maybe dude is at least a little concerned now when he thinks about robbing whitey. Also dean angelo your a do nothing just like all of your predecessors! Lets see $192,000 from fop 60,000 from cpd pension and 20,000 or so from the university. Why would he care about you? the blue shirt!
>>>Why shouldn't doctors, nurses, paramedics be credited for saving more victims instead of Garry's crime fighting B.S.
7/01/2014 08:36:00 AM>>>
Thank God for all those people. They are for the most part quiet competent caring professionals who deserve all the help and credit we can give them.
Not like this arrogant jackass from New York City.
A couple of things
Word is, Al Wysinger has put his nice new house being built in Atlanta on hold; he's telling everyone who will listen that he'll be the next Supt. of Police here when McHeartAttack leaves. As bad as that could be, I can see it happening. Rahm knows he's on some serious bad paper with black voters, having laid off a ton of mostly black city workers since he took office (Ben Joravsky of the Reader has pointed this out several times). Although Rahm has the money people votes pretty much in his pocket, he needs those 'grass roots' votes too.
Word also is that Jim Jackson will stay on as the North Chicago Police Chief. It seems the Mayor bent to pressure from the community to keep Jackson on as Chief, even though he violates the residency rule for police chief for that town (remember, Jackson was supposed to resign by the 1st or 2nd week of May?). Jackson and the Mayor of North Chicago have worked out a deal for Jackson to stay on, they just haven't released any details of it publicly. Surely, the officers of the NCPD will use it if/when that suburb flexes on them about residing in town as a member of that PD.
A plausible constant (the REAL numbers) rubbed against a set of bullshit variables (Rahm Emanuel weasel words, slippery syntax, words, terms and definitions no longer meaning what they used to) yields a bullshit product (what they WANT you to believe what the numbers are.)
Lesson #1
Beginners Guide To Chicago Style Fuckery
OT- as of 0600, still no direct deposit. Is something wrong with payroll?
7/01/2014 06:05:00 AM
I really hate to defend the city but the funds are released at the same time..... it's up to your bank as to when the funds are posted. I use Chase and funds posted at 0130.
Weis is long gone from the Crime Commission. They've been working on some stuff with OCD and the DEA on cartel members.
Okay McCrackhead try these on for size
http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/local/redeye-a-homicide-a-day-182-killings-in-182-days-20140701,0,5834504.htmlpage
Heres my question to mcstupid, hey idiot if everyone has a ccw in Chicago now a days how come the mudra rate be down? Didn't you say that cow was not the way to go in chicago? maybe dude is at least a little concerned now when he thinks about robbing whitey. Also dean angelo your a do nothing just like all of your predecessors! Lets see $192,000 from fop 60,000 from cpd pension and 20,000 or so from the university. Why would he care about you? the blue shirt!
Speaking of stupid questions. What makes you think everyone in Chicago has a ccw now a days?
As of a month ago 15,000 have been approved for the whole state of Illinois.
Rahm, hire some more police and get rid of McDufass before the BLUE VOTE GETS RID OF YOU.
Do you really believe there is a BLUE VOTE? There never has been and never will be one. If Rahm even thought there was a blue vote we would not be 2 years behind on our contract with no end in sight. Thats not the action of any politician treating his voting base.
BLUE VOTE, at least I got my morning laugh.
OT- as of 0600, still no direct deposit. Is something wrong with payroll?
7/01/2014 06:05:00 AM
I really hate to defend the city but the funds are released at the same time..... it's up to your bank as to when the funds are posted. I use Chase and funds posted at 0130.
Come on now,let them complain If you tell them you had yours deposited on time, they will have to go find something else as important as this to complain about like city stickers.
Is this an increase in the decrease? Or is it a decrease to the increase?
>>Anonymous said...
Rahm, hire some more police and get rid of McDufass before the BLUE VOTE GETS RID OF YOU.
Do you really believe there is a BLUE VOTE? There never has been and never will be one. If Rahm even thought there was a blue vote we would not be 2 years behind on our contract with no end in sight. Thats not the action of any politician treating his voting base.
BLUE VOTE, at least I got my morning laugh.
7/02/2014 10:25:00 AM<<<
If you had read other comments on that subject you would have seen that is a get out the vote drive that FOP, PB&PA and IAFF SHOULD start and push hard.
If that were to happen watch Rahm and the Rev-runds say that police should stay out of politics.
I am retired but I make phone calls and get my friends, neighbors and family to vote.
What did you do in the last elections except gripe about them?
Don't laugh.
Register and VOTE.
Will u dogs please leave the Guy alone. He is sick and has done a great job. He has done noting wrong. Talk to the UNION/FOP go to a meeting once in a while. Call me we will talk.
Will u dogs please leave the Guy alone. He is sick and has done a great job. He has done noting wrong. Talk to the UNION/FOP go to a meeting once in a while. Call me we will talk.
7/02/2014 08:56:00 PM
You are in a very small minority. When 99.9% of your co-workers are glad you are off sick, there is something wrong with you.
The Superintendent is a politician on the wrong side of most arguments for police officers. His surly attitude and arrogance with his subordinates is insulting and his personal life is a mess. There were some big flags the Mayor missed, or chose to ignore, when hiring Mr. McCarthy. The Mayor's own hubris will prevent him from admitting t the mistake, so we are stuck with him.
Don't ask us to like it or play nice with a man that doesn't really care if we live or die. He is only concerned with his political future and the reputation of his COMPSTAT dogma.
You are in a very small minority. When 99.9% of your co-workers are glad you are off sick, there is something wrong with you.
The Superintendent is a politician on the wrong side of most arguments for police officers. His surly attitude and arrogance with his subordinates is insulting and his personal life is a mess. There were some big flags the Mayor missed, or chose to ignore, when hiring Mr. McCarthy. The Mayor's own hubris will prevent him from admitting t the mistake, so we are stuck with him.
Don't ask us to like it or play nice with a man that doesn't really care if we live or die. He is only concerned with his political future and the reputation of his COMPSTAT dogma.
I love the comments about McCarthy and how he treats the exempts at COMSTAT. He talks down to them and ridicules them. Then the next comments are that the XO and DC's talk down to the troops at roll call. So instead of the DC's coming back to the districts and treating the troops right, they do to the troops what McCarthy does to them and you blame McCarthy
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