Crime is Down

Down nearly negative-three-hundred-percent!

• A woman was shot in an Edgewater alley this afternoon, Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th) said in an email. Shootings in the neighborhood are now up 300% compared to last year.

  Chicago police responded to calls of shots fired in the 5900 block of North Kenmore around 3:20 p.m. and found the woman with a gunshot wound to the leg, Manaa-Hoppenworth stated. She said the shooting occurred in the alley between Kenmore and Winthrop.

  [...] The shooting occurred just a few hours after Manaa-Hoppenworth said she was “outraged and disheartened” by “recent gun violence incidents” in her ward. So far this year, 20 people have been shot in Edgewater, up from five in all of last year and ten during 2022.

If you're remembering aldercreature Manaa-Hoppenworth's name as someone whose been roasted before, here's why:

• Just five months after announcing she would no longer talk about crime in her constituent newsletters because doing so is racist and fuels an “inaccurate public perception about crime rates,” Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th) reversed course this morning.

  Calling her office “outraged and disheartened by recent gun violence incidents that have taken place in the ward,” Manaa-Hoppenworth laid out her “Safe48 Health & Safety Plan.”

  When she banned crime topics from her newsletter in May, the first-term alderman tried to drape her decision in a scholarly cloak by linking to a couple of studies that she said supported her thinking, including one from the University of Tehran. Anyone who wants to know about crime in the ward has to opt-in to receive separate emails. Presumably, they’re the racists who live in her corner of Edgewater and Uptown.

So by her own definition, Manaa-Hoppenworth is now a racist and is fueling an "inaccurate public perception about crime rates."

No word if she is one of the fourteen aldercreatures demanding a return of ShotSpotter and a return to fully funding the CPD, along with re-funding those 400 spots Conehead eliminated.