The Reader Does Journalism
Here's what happens when someone actually reads the "Task Force" report - they discover there's a lot of bullshit in it:
- 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.
The task force had to realize that its "no regard for the sanctity of life" assertion about Chicago police would dominate the initial media coverage and drown out most everything else that the 190-page report offers. And it offers a lot. But the report doesn't quite connect the dots on what else may be behind that shooting statistic.
Poor black neighborhoods in Chicago are "ravaged by violent crime," the task force report acknowledges. In the west-side Austin neighborhood, there were 3,341 violent crimes in 2013 and 2014, including 67 homicides, 219 nonfatal shootings, and 725 armed robberies with guns. In such neighborhoods, there are bound to be far more stops, arrests, and confrontations with police than in more affluent neighborhoods where violent crime is much rarer.
All of which we've been pointing out for the past week and our readers have been saying for years now. But you don't even have to believe us - HeyJackass.com has a running counter of crime victims and offenders broken down by race for the past few years, and guess what it shows? Minorities are the vast majority of crime victims, perpetrated by a vaster majority of minority offenders.
But it's easier to blame the police that actually look in a mirror.
In any event, the Reader beats the mainstream media all to hell in the article. They quote major university studies, and what is allegedly happening in Chicago is no different than anything happening in anywhere else, even New York City. What's the word we're looking for again? Oh yeah - journalism.
But it's easier to blame the police that actually look in a mirror.
In any event, the Reader beats the mainstream media all to hell in the article. They quote major university studies, and what is allegedly happening in Chicago is no different than anything happening in anywhere else, even New York City. What's the word we're looking for again? Oh yeah - journalism.
Labels: info for the police, media
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
38 Comments:
Can NYT get their nose out of where it doesn't belong - ! Like they know first-hand from living here what's really going on. Stupid liberal (toilet) paper.
--No Cop Here
Chicago will be the crime capital of the United States by the end of the year. The people want politically correct police, well the public is about to get the most politically correct police this nation has ever seen. Cops doing the bare minimum, anything remotely looking like pro-active police work will become an extinct species.
Excellent, excellent, excellent work.
It's common sense, and disappointing there are not more reporters like Mr Bogira who are willing to actually do the research and read reports like this to expose the truth, but thankfully there are still some like him.
Much appreciation for you sharing the facts objectively, sir.
There are NO journalists in Chicago anymore.
What we have are pseudo-celebrities with more plastic surgery than a Hasbro Toy repair shop trying to gin up racism and promote liberal views while suppressing real stories for fear they might upset those they want to rub elbows with on the social scene.
of all the serious assaults directed to Chicago Police, both on and off duty, what percentage are perpetrated by black offenders.
I bet its higher than 75 %
In neighborhoods where 1,000 people have been shot already this year, and where the shooters post photos of themselves on Facebook showing them with their guns, it seems totally irrational to expect police officers to keep the peace without guns and occasionally using them.
You have an armed and violent civilian population, and some idiots expect the police to do their jobs without guns, that they sometimes need to use.
Maybe it's about time that Rahm does a Jane Byrne and takes up residence in Englewood for 30 days.
Over 1000 shot this year, over 150 homicides this year, 90% of both of those are black on black crime! and the police are the problem???
OBVIOUSLY, It is the KKK.
All those racist white Klan Members are robbing and pillaging the poor innocent blacks on the Southside.
The Police ard just looking the other way as Whitey attacks them.
/sarc
74%???
Isn't that the same percentage of black felons caught each year?
It's journalism all right..... Yellow journalism.
Deeply flawed, and heavily biased, journalism.
Hmmmm,I wonder if those numbers are the same in the community I live in? Um, no I don't think so!
Steve Bogira is a great guy, very fair and honest. I've known him personally for years. He also wrote a book called Courtroom 304, it's good too.
O.T. --- Looks like West Wrigleyville is getting worse. Just saw on the news that there was a 12 year old boy stabbed in the stomach and back during a domestic overnight near Waveland & Sawyer around 3200 west on Waveland when a female with a knife tried to stab another male and ended up getting the kid instead. Thank God the 2 goofs haven't been released as of this morning --per the news-channel 2. What is wrong with these people? A 12 year old? I tell you West Wrigleyville is far from what goes on everywhere else but savages are everywhere!!
"...In reporting any war, truth is the first casualty..."
William Randolph Hearst.
There are rumors that The Reader is closing down. Or, it might just be the paper version. It would b extremely bad news if it is gone since The Reader is the only paper in town that tells the truth. They cannot cover much and do not do the day-to-day stories but they consistently go after Rahm and chased Daley around too.
It's all the liberal government programs that have been perpetuated for decades by the democrats that have caused all this. The deaths and misery mean nothing to them as long as they get their votes. When somebody prints that I'll be impressed.
Any entry level grad student doing real research must use certain research principles or valid certain research methods for their theories to be considered "valid." Before you make a claim you have to account for certain variables - in this case where is the data showing where police were deployed during their assessment - if they would have accounted for this variable - you would see that more cops assigned to high crime black neighborhoods is the reason for the Stat they threw out. - not racist police tactics. It's amazing that this shame of a task force gets away with a BS "study" like this - that would receive a "F" in any college level course for having such a flawed research method.
Chicago African American students made up 40 percent of total enrollment but 76 percent of school suspensions. Latino students made up 45 percent of enrollment and 20 percent of suspensions, and white students accounted for 10 percent of enrollment and 3 percent of suspensions.
So, CPS in their wisdom(?) have decided to rectify this by installing the restorative justice concept, which allows the thugs to continue to say in class and ruin things for the students wanting to learn. The CPS stats for student suspensions for the 2015-2016 school will likely look like this after the year:
CPS Revised Student Suspensions for 2015-16:
White: 45% (account for 9.4% of CPS student population)
Asian: 25% (3.6%)
*Black: 15% (40%)
*Latino: 15% (45%)
Other: 5% (2%)
*denotes students will be given passing grades without showing up to class or being able to read, asked about their feelings as to why they cause havoc and given hugs, given free breakfast and lunch and then around and throw the food away, and also given goodie bags for acting like straight-up assholes. The goodie bags will include maps of Chicago and free VENTRA cards, which will allow them to hop on trains to other neighborhoods to rob and beat up people who work for a living.
Teachers of these students will be made to accept blame for these student's behaviors and made to pay for their own ulcers given to them by their 'new' honor students.
Have you looked at the members of the Task Force Working groups? MacArthur Justice Center, People's Law Office, Public Defenders Office, "police expert" Craig Futterman, etc. -- these and other similar attorneys with financial and professional biases and motivations make up more than 20% of the 52 members. Look at the rest and you'll see the same across the board. The report was rigged from the get go. No objectivity, no discussion of crime patterns or crime fighting issues, no acknowledgment that there are other contrary perspectives and facts and studies about most of the issues raised. And yet, barely any mention of this in the media or elsewhere because it doesn't fit the popular narrative and because the media gets most of its police stories and quotes from the same people who make up the Task Force -- plaintiffs lawyers, academics, community activists, and other "experts" with their own agendas.
Blacks commit 90% of all the violent crimes in Chicago.What do they want us to do? start shooting some lawbiding white people just to even it out?
To the blogger who said Rham should take up residence in Englewood for 30 days.
Well, my take is that if he did, then within 3 days his dope smoking kid would be on the corner of 57th and Shields with his hat cocked, pants down while pitching dope under the name of the Kosher Kowboy.
I didn't know the Reader still existed.
We should bring back the Midnight CHA basketball league. Of course, it will have to be renamed Section 8. On the other hand, I don't even see urban youths playing much basketball anymore.
I agree with 03:28 am, it's little better but still skewed writing, we are biased because the shooting victims are poor and in need of jobs and good education. The article starts good then somebody gives the writer some cool aid and it goes to usual shitty propaganda
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Maybe it's about time that Rahm does a Jane Byrne and takes up residence in Englewood for 30 days.
4/24/2016 01:18:00 AM
And also send his kids to the local public schools.
Let the politicians live in Englewood , Austin , have their wife and kids interact with the folks that elect them .
Anonymous Anonymous said...
O.T. --- Looks like West Wrigleyville is getting worse. Just saw on the news that there was a 12 year old boy stabbed in the stomach and back during a domestic overnight near Waveland & Sawyer around 3200 west on Waveland when a female with a knife tried to stab another male and ended up getting the kid instead. Thank God the 2 goofs haven't been released as of this morning --per the news-channel 2. What is wrong with these people? A 12 year old? I tell you West Wrigleyville is far from what goes on everywhere else but savages are everywhere!!
4/24/2016 07:20:00 AM
West Wrigleyville? What are you smoking?
Everyone KNOWS that area is FarFarNorth Logan Square!!
let them police themselves, keep collecting your checks. 700 murders and 3000 shot sounds about right
OT anyone know if Carol Marin, Eric Zorn, etc... has watched the documentary "A Murder in the Park"?
If kids dropped out of school and all they did was play basketball, they would be held up as role models
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT anyone know if Carol Marin, Eric Zorn, etc... has watched the documentary "A Murder in the Park"?
4/24/2016 07:37:00 PM
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Every reporter or columnist puts their email at the end of their colmn except for Zorn the MORON. PUSSY!!!
74% seems low......
Slighty OT.
CPS can kiss my ass , they do about as good a job as the weathermen and retain their job. They got a million excuses but shit results and furthermore if they really were all about what they say they are they wouldn't have allowed their work place to disintegrate to what it has become......
Anonymous Anonymous said...
74%???
Isn't that the same percentage of black felons caught each year?
4/24/2016 03:15:00 AM
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WRONG!!!
It is the same percentage, as evidenced by FBI UCR stats, of offenders committing serious felonies, like robbery, homicide, etc.... whether an arrest is made or not.
Don't say it is the same percentage of arrests, because then they'll say we are just refraining from arresting whites, Asians, and hispanics.
Regarding the UCR - it is amazing how honest a victim can be regarding the race of the offender who attacked them/
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Any entry level grad student doing real research must use certain research principles or valid certain research methods for their theories to be considered "valid." Before you make a claim you have to account for certain variables - in this case where is the data showing where police were deployed during their assessment - if they would have accounted for this variable - you would see that more cops assigned to high crime black neighborhoods is the reason for the Stat they threw out. - not racist police tactics. It's amazing that this shame of a task force gets away with a BS "study" like this - that would receive a "F" in any college level course for having such a flawed research method.
4/24/2016 08:10:00 AM
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EXACTLY. Statistics obey certain mathematical laws. We should hire a real statistician to study the #'s.
How much could it cost?
Anyone else think , victims of rape , armed robbery , aggravated battery , family of murder victims were ignored and not interviewed by the task force that adjusted interviews to be anti police
let cpd put all merit supervisors , all black officers in the 11th district for 2 years let's see what the results will be
IAD , IG please go in 11 and find out how many full duty officers are assigned to Clerical duties , phony foot posts , parks etc
show us the activity of every officer assigned to 11
what hours , beat assigned and last years activity
FOP should also be on top of this 11 has down cars all the time , one man cars but many officers that are hidden in office jobs by deputy chief
Several people have brought it up, and I've been trying to find verifiable statistics, but what percentage of crime, violent or otherwise, is committed by blacks in the City? IT only makes sense that if they are stupid enough to be committing the majority of the crime, the will no doubt be caught; thus the high percentage of blacks being arrested.
Interesting that they would rather go out and hold up hard working people, rather than take advantage of all available to them through education (money, scholarships, meals); taking advantage of that would require work on their part and, as a secondary teacher in the City, I can affirm the majority have no want to actually earn something for themselves when they can get it for free and, if not, play the race card. Whites don't have the copyright on racism, although Jackson, Rahm, and Flager would have you think so.
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