Conehead Corpses Stacking Up

After near record cold days in January, the mayor's people are touting a "continuing drop" in crime. We've warned about crime being cyclical and trends should only be cited in a year-over-year manner so as to avoid the usual surges.

And these still amuse us:

• A man was found shot to death on a front porch in Roseland early Friday morning, Chicago police said, but it was not immediately clear when he was slain because nobody reported gunfire in the area, and the mayor disconnected the city’s ShotSpotter network nearly 17 months ago without having a plan for replacing the gunfire detection system.

  At about 4:34 a.m., a 911 caller reported that a man she did not know was lying on her porch in the 200 block of West 108th Street. CPD dispatched officers to check it out and, about 10 minutes after receiving the call, they found the man had suffered a gunshot wound. The officers summoned EMS to the scene, but the 29-year-old, who had a gunshot wound to the left flank, was pronounced dead.

  Investigators later determined that the victim had been outside when a red truck rolled up and someone inside the vehicle shot at the man around 4:29 a.m., about five minutes before the 911 caller reported a stranger on their porch, according to a CPD statement. The victim ran to the porch and collapsed.

One really has to wonder how many of these people (or folks) would have been saved had ShotSpotter still been active.

The truly twisted and cynical probably wonder if society would have benefited from them being saved at all.