Name This Tune

The CWB blog heard someone had fired a gun near Wrigley Field. A Patrol unit called in loud reports and a whole bunch of people called 911. CWB did some digging. See if you can hear anything in this video clip - be sure you turn the volume up so you don't miss anything:

Media Affairs said the incident “turned out to be not bonafide.”

We'll pause here so you can go back and play the video again....if you didn't hear it the first time.

Here's a secret Groot and Brownie don't want you to know:

• Unless there's a ShotSpotter hit, a casualty, some sort of damage or shell casings found, the "Shots Fired" didn't happen and isn't recorded anywhere except as a 19-Paul.

The reasons for this are many:

• no victim = no crime;
• keeping cars off the street inventorying shell casings is cost prohibitive;
• "testing" evidence for non-existent prosecutions doesn't make budgetary sense;

On any given day, there are between 200 and 500 "Shots Fired calls citywide. Many are bullshit. Many fall into the above categories. On the weekends, there are thousands.

And on average, there are two dead and a dozen wounded every single day, which should give you a small idea of how bad it truly is out there.

And after being embarrassed by an alternative media source, Media Affairs released the following after the close of business:

• Update 5:11 p.m. — Within the past hour, another CPD spokesperson said in an email that police returned to the area “after video…evidence surfaced.” Officers located shell casings near Addison and Wilton, the spokesperson said.

Good thing there wasn't a dead body there for sixteen hours.