"It Looks Bad"

So the aldercreature won't keep her constituents in the loop:

• In a North Side ward where four people have been shot in the past week, and robberies and sex crimes are at their highest level in over a decade, the local alderman announced on Wednesday that she would no longer post crime alerts on social media or send crime alerts to her constituent email list.

  Why?

  Something about racism and her belief that “over-reporting of crime leads to an inaccurate public perception about crime rates.” Do you know what else leads to a perception of high crime rates? High crime.

  Which alderman with a skyrocketing crime problem is going to start playing “hide the football” with the people who elected her? Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th), whose ward includes much of Edgewater and parts of Uptown.

Instead, she is telling her voters to call the police station for info. How about we save the voters some time and just post the standard answers here:

• We have no information to share
• First we're hearing about that
• You better talk to the Commander's office....here's the number
• Maybe the detectives know? Here's their number
• Ongoing investigation, that's all we can say

Hell, it would probably be better if we just kept doing that from years ago.