Confronting a Fake Number

Someone at the ChicagoContrarian website is asking the correct questions for once:

• Throughout history, mankind has witnessed falsification on both a small and grand scale. In the course of man’s existence, rarely has there not been time period in which some figure has come forth to claim, untruthfully, they are indeed the Messiah, predict the apocalypse, or advance crackpot conspiracy theories. In a claim a bit closer to home late last year and on a much smaller scale, Eddie Johnson, the former superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (CPD), held a press conference to announce officers had confiscated 10,000 guns from city streets through the end of November 2019.
  
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  To fully grasp the complexities surrounding the circumstances under which a weapon is removed from Chicago’s streets, it is crucial to understand the methodology under which the CPD classifies a weapon recovered. According to CPD procedure, a weapon seized from the street falls into one of three categories: (a) The result of an arrest of a suspect in possession of a firearm; (b) recovery by a sworn officer; or (c) what is referred to as a “turn in.” While countless firearms taken from the streets are the outcome of impeccable policework, it similarly must be taken into consideration some weapons are subject to the constant flux in laws enveloping legal gun ownership. Apart from this plain truth, officers state as many as half of the weapons the former superintendent claimed were recovered in 2019 came into possession of authorities by virtue of a court order as a condition of bail or bond, a revoked Firearm Owners Identification card (FOID), which requires owners to surrender a weapon, gun buybacks, which are held almost on a weekly basis, and conscientious residents randomly turning a firearm over at a local police district building.

And the question that any real reporters ought to be asking:

• How is Kim Foxx’s office responding to police requests for felony charges to gun offenses?  Though police are plainly completing their duties by recovering weapons from criminals, officers say Ms. Foxx is willfully neglecting to fulfill hers.

If we accept the premise that half of the 10,000 guns are removed from circulation via non-criminal proceedings - which we believe is a low estimate - then:

• where are the 5,000 felony charges for UUW that ought to be clogging the courts?
• what is the conviction rate?
• what is the recidivism rate?
• what is the "pled to misdemeanor" rate that drives the recidivism?

Silence from Crimesha's office.