Ferguson Effect is Real

Especially in.....Ferguson:

• How did the Ferguson effect affect Ferguson, Mo., last year? Precisely as you would expect.
  
  The little city of 21,059 already had a disproportionately high crime rate, as anyone observing the behavior of Michael Brown before he was fatally shot by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson in August 2014 would have guessed. In 2014, Ferguson’s violent-crime rate was 545 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, considerably above the 2014 national average of 362.
  
  But in 2015, the number of violent crimes in Ferguson surged 65 percent, from 115 to 190. Ferguson’s violent-crime rate in 2015 was 790 per 100,000 residents, over two times the national average of 373 in 2015. By comparison, the FBI estimates that the absolute number of the nation’s violent crimes rose nearly 4 percent in 2015, and the nation’s violent-crime rate rose 3 percent.

And in most large urban areas run by democrats and leftists, the same surge in violent crime is underway.

Rahm Lies, Media Sucks it Up

Rahm has to handle a few softball questions, then gets this at the end of his interview on Meet the Press:

• GREGORY: Mayor, before you go, I want to ask you about a huge crisis in your own city, and that is of course the murder rate, it’s up 31 percent from a year ago. Forty shootings just last weekend, nine left dead. A couple of people shot, even near the President’s home on the south side. What are you doing to address this?

  MR. EMANUEL: First, we put more police on the street. Getting kids, guns and drugs off the street. Our crime rate is down 10 percent. And our, in fact, our shootings have declined from what was basically we lost the early part of the first quarter of the year, and we brought them dramatically down. We have a-- a gang issue on parts of the city. Overall, overall crime down 10 percent. And we’re making efforts actually to reduce the gang conflicts because it’s gang-on-gang issues. It does not affect the whole city. But anywhere it happens we’re going to be dealing with it.

  GREGORY: Is this not a crisis in your estimation? Is it something that’s being overblown or is this something that you have a hard time containing at the moment?

  MR. EMANUEL: No, we’re containing it and the-- and the question I have is not whether people say a crisis or challenge, I’m going to do everything I can to make sure every child when they’re going to school can think about their studies not their safety regardless of where they live. And that’s my first priority.

  GREGORY: Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, thank you as always. We will see you down in Charlotte this week.

Let's just point out the lies:

1. More police on the street? Bullshit - there are less than ever. Taking 500 cops out of their street units and putting them "back on the streets" isn't "more police." But the media treats this like gospel. The retirements haven't abated either;
   
2. Crime rate is down 10%? Do we really have to go through this again? Murder, shootings, bank robberies and auto theft are all up. Not to mention the lowest number of officers on the street during the past two decades. The only thing that would remotely bring the crime rate down is a massive influx of people to Chicago - maybe that's the reasoning? Sanctuary City and all?
3. Containing it? We aren't containing it and the "boxes" aren't working. We're lucky we aren't digging trenches, closing roads and raising the bridges to keep it where it's at. "Containing it" is about as humorous as "treading water."

But Rahm puts it out there and the liberal, compliant, bought-and-paid for media stooges eat it up like so much crap that they do. Do you like how he managed to fit in "the children" in the last line? Thank goodness Rahm (call me Helen) Lovejoy is thinking of the children - like that excuses everything else he does.

"We're Doing Better"

Really?  Better than what?

• Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Monday touted the department's crime-fighting strategies in tamping down the city's murder rate since earlier this year when homicides skyrocketed.
  
  "This is not a zero-sum game. There has to be a recognition that we're doing better," McCarthy told reporters at a news conference at police headquarters. "I can't change what happened in the first quarter. What I can do, is to fix it going forward."
  

Well, if you want the credit now, then you have to take the blame from before, and even Stevie Wonder could see that disbanding the citywide response units ended up directly affecting the number of killings by a complete lack of response to the mayhem. We used to be able to shut neighborhoods down - not so much anymore.

• By April, homicides had soared 66 percent in Chicago compared with a year earlier, but that rate has been gradually brought down to about an 18 percent increase at this point, McCarthy said.
  
  McCarthy credited the reduction to the city's decision to demolish more vacant buildings, arrest more gang members and focus police attention on individuals who are more likely to commit crimes. In general, the city is seeing less overall crime that it did decades ago, McCarthy said.
  

Really? Now we're claiming a lack of vacant buildings as a crime fighting tool? Next, are we going to say the weather actually DOES effect the crime rate? Because you wouldn't know it checking today's stats, something like 3 or 4 dead on a Monday when the temps never got above 37 degrees.

And seriously, an 18% increase in the homicide count is nothing to brag about. Who gives a shit if it was at 66% for 3 months this year? Statistics are a long term proposition. We could argue killings are down 400% in the last hour since no one has died via gunfire, but we'd look like idiots.

• "The city is enjoying the lowest crime rate it has had in 30 years," McCarthy said. "We might be in a position where we are leading the nation in crime reduction."

Sure it is.  If we set 1,000 fires tonight, we could claim that arson is down tomorrow because we ran out of buildings to burn. This CompStat is so much bullshit and the guy running the calculator is stacking it five stories high.

What's This Statistic?

The Daily Herald:

• Crime in Illinois continued a steady two-decade decline last year, reported the Illinois State Police in its annual crime-rate index released today.

  While the crime rate was up slightly in suburban Cook County, it was mostly in crimes against property and not violent crime. The crime rate dropped in the collar counties of DuPage, Lake, McHenry and Will.

But the last line of the article:

• The crime index was up 3.1 percent in Chicago, but down 2.2 percent over the rest of the state.

Crime is up? But we've been hearing it's down, and down big? Is someone fudging the numbers released to the media? Again?

Quick Crime Reduction

It's so easy, even a 9.5-digit midget could do it:

• A six-year study published last year by the University of California, Riverside  found "violent crime is slightly higher in sanctuary cities." It concluded there was "no statistically discernible difference in violent crime rates, rape, or property crime across" 55 cities studied.
  
  And at least one city, Phoenix, saw a drop in crime after it eliminated its sanctuary city status, according to former law enforcement officials.
  
  [...] "When we eliminated our sanctuary policy back in 2008, we saw crime, violent and stolen vehicles fall by 25 percent," he recalled. "We saw a 20-year low crime rate. When we were allowed and had the discretion to contact our federal immigration partners, crime fell drastically."
  
  According to City-Data.com, which collects data from various government agencies, from 2008 to 2009 Phoenix's murder rate fell 27 percent, robberies by 23 percent, assault by 13 percent, burglaries by 14 percent and theft by 19 percent. The numbers for each category fell the following year as well – albeit by smaller margins.

A 27% decrease in the murder rate? Rahm would get re-elected in a landslide, probably twice, all by merely following Federal law and deporting people who aren't supposed to be here in the first place.

Crime is.....Up? Wait a Minute....

Well doesn't this just blow all of McCompStat's theories to hell:

• The violent crime rate went up 15 percent last year, and the property crime rate rose 12 percent, the government said Thursday, signs that the nation may be seeing the last of the substantial declines in crime of the past two decades.
  
  Last year marked the second year in a row for increases in the crime victimization survey, a report that is based on household interviews.
  
  The 2012 increases were driven by a rise in crimes that were not reported to police, a category frequently involving less-serious offenses. Simple assaults also rose. The rate of property crimes increased due to a rise in theft.
  
  "One year of bad news is something you notice but don't necessarily draw conclusions about. Two years of bad news suggests it might be time to start worrying," said Carnegie Mellon University professor Jonathan Caulkins.

Golly. Not to brag, but we guess we were pretty much right all along and Rahm, Garry and the whole New York crew was wrong.

The Most Dangerous Cities

Coming in at #3....wait a minute....is this right? Springfield, Illinois? What the hell:

• The capital city of Illinois, Springfield ranks third on our list because it had 855 violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2010. The city also confounds analysts who try to interpret its relatively high crime rate. The unemployment rate was lower than the national average at 7% as of July, so the economy wouldn’t seem to play a major role in crime. And although meth usage saw a small spike in the mid-2000s, a law passed a few years ago making the necessary pharmaceutical ingredients harder to buy seems to have cut down on abuse. There are also poorer neighborhoods – literally on the other side of the railroad tracks – that tend to have higher rates of poverty and the higher rates of crime that accompany that, which contributes to the city’s overall higher rate of crime. Another factor could be Springfield’s relatively young population – 66% of the city is under the age of 44 – and relatively younger populations are historically correlated with higher rates of crime.

The other cities in the top 5 are:

• #5 - Anchorage, Alaska
• #4 - Flint, Michigan
• #2 - Memphis, Tennessee
• #1 - everyone's favorite - Detroit, Michigan

Rockford came in at #10. And Chicago?

Chicago doesn't appear to be in the FBI's statistical table that Forbes magazine used to determine the "most dangerous" cities. Maybe we're missing it. Or maybe Chicago doesn't keep statistics that the FBI can trust to actually determine crime rates.

Touchie Feelie BS

If you forgot what democrats being in charge meant, here's a reminder:

• More prisons are not the answer to America’s crime problems, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the nation’s lawyers Monday.

  “We will not focus exclusively on incarceration as the most effective means of protecting public safety,” Holder told the American Bar Association delegates meeting here for their annual convention. “Since 2003, spending on incarceration has continued to rise, but crime rates have flattened.”

  Holder conceded that the massive build-up of prisons — a seven-fold increase over the past 40 years — probably has something to do with the crime rate dropping 40 percent since 1991.

No shit, Sherlock. So how about maintaining or increasing the rate of incarceration until such time as the crime rate stops flattening and starts plunging. "Diminishing returns" our asses.

Feds Edit Crime Numbers

Remember a few weeks ago at the Presidential Debate, Trump contended that violent crime was up under the Biden/Kackler regime? And ABC "news" fact-checked the ex-pres and said fbi stats showed crime was down? And we (along with others) pointed out that LAPD and NYPD didn't even report their crime stats to the feebs so the numbers were suspect at best.

Seems the fbi is conducting election interference....again:

• When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.

  But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

  The Bureau – which has been at the center of partisan storms – made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release.
  

They changed the stats, and didn't even bother to mention the alterations, leaving it to professionals with far more time that we have, to download the new spreadsheets and manually compare them to the ones ABC "news" and the Kackler used during the debate.

SURPRISE! The fbi lied (via omission) again!

And these aren't tiny lies either - they're whoppers:

• While the FBI claims that serious violent crime has fallen by 5.8% since Biden took office, the NCVS numbers show that total violent crime has risen by 55.4%. Rapes are up by 42%, robbery by 63%, and aggravated assault by 55% during Biden’s term. Since the NCVS started, the largest previous increase over three years was 27% in 2006, so the increase under Biden was slightly more than twice as large.

  The increases shown by the NCVS during the Biden-Harris administration are by far the largest percentage increases over any three years, slightly more than doubling the previous record.

If you lie to the feebs, you're going to spend - at minimum - a year in prison. Even inadvertent omissions or misinterpretations of events are considered "lies" and you will be prosecuted. But the feebs can lie ot the American people with impudence and attempt to influence an election - on multiple occasions (Russia-gate, Hillary's server, Hunter's laptop, J6, etc)

Disbanding isn't even a question any more. Prison terms should be insisted on.

Hmmmm

Why are blue cities such hotbeds of crime?

• The "Black Mayors' Coalition on Crime" gathered this week in Memphis, Tennessee to discuss the dangers of crime across the US, as well as apparent solutions to the growing threat.  The question is, was the meeting really about stopping crime, or, was it all about maintaining optics and making the public believe crime is going down when it's not?

  [...]

  Perhaps because the event is in itself an admission that crime is rising; a reality which Democrat representatives have tried to deny for the past few years.  Another reason may be because the solutions being discussed are not something the voting population would agree with.

  In the interview below the Mayor of St. Louis, Tishaura Jones, mentions that gas stations and convenience stores attract a high rate of crime and asks how the business owners can be 'held accountable' for this, rather than how they can be protected from it?

Whoops!! There it is again - sue Kia for easy-to-steal cars, sue Glock for easy-to-convert pistols, sue business owners for being too easy to stick up. 

No such thing as holding a criminal accountable!

Oh, and the reason the media and democrats (but we repeat ourselves)  are claiming "crime is down" is because the FBI (tools of the left, one and all) have recently granted some sort of "waiver" to cities and the Uniform Crime Reporting statistics.

The stats for 2023 aren't due until....2025 or so. After the election. So while "reported crime" might be down, it's because the numbers don't actually exist.

Crime is Up

After years of Rahm bragging about CTA crime being down, "suddenly" it's up:

• More than 90 percent of the serious crimes reported on CTA L trains and buses and at stations in Chicago go unsolved.
  
  Serious crime overall on the CTA in the city went up 16 percent last year — mostly thefts of cellphones and other items.
  
  And the CTA doesn’t keep statistics on crimes that take place in the suburbs aboard its buses or trains or at stations.

So it's undoubtedly even higher than reported and the clearance rate rivals the clearance rate for homicides. Almost like closing two detective areas and allowing the total number of detectives to dwindle might have had some effect on the numbers.

Not that it matters as Kim, Tommy, Toni and Tim continue to empty the jail and courtrooms....which might somehow have something to do with the burgeoning crime rate.

Get Ready for Another Medal

J-Fled and Masters Masters Masters will have an entire row of ribbons at this rate:

• Reports of violent and property crimes continued to decline in the first half of 2010, according to preliminary crime report released by the FBI Monday.

  The FBI's semiannual uniform crime report shows that reports of violent crime dropped 6.2 percent from January to June and property crime reports were down 2.8 percent.

  The dip in reported crimes follows a three-year trend of decreasing crime rates despite a sagging economy.

Of course, the FBI doesn't use Chicago's numbers in their figuring because Chicago fudges the definitions of "crime," but J-Fled insisting that there were 23 straight months of reductions must be the truth, right? Why else would he be going forward with a massive redeployment of manpower resources if there wasn't any crime to fight?

Is anyone in the media picking up on this at all? If crime is down, why move police? If the police are bitching about back-up and strength, maybe crime isn't "down" at all? If the city hasn't hired but two classes in over three years, hasn't promoted a single detective in that same time frame while retirements have not only continued, but continued at a higher rate than in years past, maybe all isn't as it seems.

Oh yeah, and the mayor is a liar nine ways to Sunday. Why would anyone believe a single number coming out of City Hall?

Crime Up

What's with the media waking up and reporting what we've been saying for over a decade now?

• Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s reluctance to prosecute and Mayor Brandon Johnson’s lack of a concrete response to rising crime is paying dividends for the city in all the wrong ways.

  A new report from the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) shows that violent crime continues to rise in Chicago, with robberies up 21 percent in just one year – and with arrests down.

  “Chicagoans reported 7.6% more violent crime from July 2023 through June 2024,” the IPI report said. “Residents experienced a 21% increase in robberies during those 12 months, with robberies becoming one-third of all violent crimes.

  “Residents reported 29,522 violent crimes through June,” the report continued. “But as cases of violent crime hit their highest level in the past five years, the arrest rate for these felonies declined to 10.8%, the lowest level in the past five years.”

  Chicago is now the “crime capital of the world” and “tops the nation in youth crime," former mayoral candidate Paul Vallas wrote in a recent commentary. “Chicago needs a real crime strategy. It must restore police strength. It must hold criminals responsible. It must offer safety that puts the city’s low-income families at ease.”

We would say that Vallas is exaggerating a bit and that there are parts of Central and South America that put Chicago's numbers to shame. But among allegedly first world cities, Chicago is certainly top tier in crime disappointments, directly attributable to disappointing politicians.

And Another Revision

Which is going to do exactly nothing to increase street stops:

• The Chicago Police Department and the ACLU have once again agreed to simplify a burdensome “investigatory stop report,” but the police union says the changes won’t be enough to reverse an 80 percent drop in street stops.
  
  No longer will the two-page form include the names and badge numbers of officers making the stop. That information will only go to a retired federal judge. Personal information about the person stopped will also be eliminated from the form.
  
  “We never really cared about individual officers. What we were looking at was a systemic fix to the abuse of street stops in Chicago,” said ACLU spokesman Ed Yohnka.

::cough cough Bullshit! cough cough::

Numerous law firms are and remain highly interested in that information and they will leave no stone un-turned in their efforts to find any number of poor coppers to appear in Federal Court listing their assets for a deposition. If it's in a government database (it's in a few Department databases already), it's discover-able.

Angelo chimes in:

• Instead of tinkering at the margins, Fraternal Order of Police President Dean Angelo said the “monstrosity of a report” should be scrapped altogether in favor of the “contact cards” that preceded the agreement with the ACLU or an expanded form of it, as used by the Illinois State Police.
  
  In addition, Angelo said the city and the ACLU must remove the shackles that limit street stops to instances where officers either observe criminal behavior spot someone who “fits the description” of someone reported to 911 as having committed a crime.
  
  “It limits stop, question and frisk completely because it was designed by the ACLU and accepted as policy by the department, which is the main contributing factor to the drop in our street stops,” Angelo said.
  
  “People think that police officers are standing down. Police officers aren’t standing down. They’re following policy. They’re doing what the order requires. That’s what everybody’s missing.”

ISR's are time off the streets. Or time sitting in one location entering data on a computer screen so unreadable and in such an uncomfortable posture that our chiropractor bought a two new cars last year.

• In August, 2015, the ACLU pressed for expanded reporting on investigatory stops in Chicago after releasing a study showing minorities have been predominately targeted for stops here.

In a completely unrelated study, HeyJackass.com, combined with Department databases and FBI statistics, proved that murders and shootings have been committed and suffered by "predominately minority communities" in the City of Chicago.

The ACLU countered with this laugher:

• Yohnka dismissed as a “fallacy” the notion that the 80 percent drop in street stops is somehow responsible for the 60 percent spike in homicides in Chicago.
  
  He noted that the University of Chicago Crime Lab recently concluded there is “no linkage” between street stops and the crime rate. In fact, when street stops declined in New York City, so did the crime rate, Yohnka said.
  
  “The reason the stops have gone down is because there were too many stops,” Yohnka said.

Really? Too many stops? Everything we see and hear in the street is "Do more stops!" At Roll Call, too. We guess we'll be telling the Commander that the ACLU said there were "too many stops" next time he comes to address the troops.

Harvard Gun Study

Guess who has been telling the truth about guns since Day One?

• The Harvard study attempts to answer the question of whether or not banning firearms would reduce murders and suicides. Researchers looked at crime data from several European countries and found that countries with HIGHER gun ownership often had LOWER murder rates.
  
  Russia, for example, enforces very strict gun control on its people, but its murder rate remains quite high. In fact, the murder rate in Russia is four times higher than in the “gun-ridden” United States, cites the study. ”Homicide results suggest that where guns are scarce other weapons are substituted in killings.” In other words, the elimination of guns does not eliminate murder, and in the case of gun-controlled Russia, murder rates are quite high.
  
  The study revealed several European countries with significant gun ownership, like Norway, Finland, Germany and France – had remarkably low murder rates. Contrast that with Luxembourg, “where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal, had a murder rate nine times higher than Germany in 2002.

Which means what exactly?

• Further, the report cited, “the determinants of murder and suicide are basic social, economic, and cultural factors, not the prevalence of some form of deadly mechanism.” Meaning, it’s not guns that kill people.
  
  People kill people.
  

We expect a drop in the violent crime rate once all the pieces comes together for Concealed Carry. And we fully expect Rahm and Garry to take credit for it once it happens, regardless of where they might be working at hte time.

Dangerous Neighborhoods

In 013:

• For the second year in a row, using exclusive data developed by Dr. Andrew Schiller's team at NeighborhoodScout.com, and based on FBI data from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, WalletPop reveals the top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods with the highest predicted rates of violent crime in America.
  
  This year, Chicago took the not-so coveted top spot from Cincinnati for the most dangerous neighborhood, while Atlanta has the highest number of neighborhoods making the list (four).
  
  You may ask, why neighborhoods and not cities? Schiller explains that even the cities with the highest crime rates can have relatively safe neighborhoods, and thus it is less useful to generalize about an entire city

And the baddest of the bad?

• 1. Chicago, Ill.
  Neighborhood: W. Lake St.
  Found within ZIP code: 60612
  Predicted annual violent crimes: 297
  Violent crime rate (per 1,000): 257.72
  My chances of becoming a victim here (in one year): 1 in 4

Coming in at number eighteen:

• 18. Chicago, Ill.
  Neighborhood: 4000 S. Federal St.
  Found within ZIP code: 60609
  Predicted annual violent crimes: 202
  Violent crime rate (per 1,000): 93.04
  My chances of becoming a victim here (in one year): 1 in 11

That's mostly vacant land since the projects came down, isn't it? There are blocks in Englewood and North Lawndale that didn't make the list, but that must have something to do with population density? In any event, we think J-Fled ought to fire the commanders in charge of these hell holes as they obviously aren't doing their jobs. Then he can resign, too.

National Issue Comes to Chicago

As a rule, we don't do social media. However, AceofSpades blog has an extensive Twitter conversation that demonstrates the damage the previous Administration has done (and continues to do) to the nation, specifically Washington DC. We've condensed it for space considerations, but you can read the whole thing at the link up top:

• Boy oh boy. Remember we said that after Obama left office, we'd find out the damage he did? Under Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, the Department of Justice pushed the states to pass new laws. The goal was to make it impossible to hold repeat offenders in jail before trial. Why? Because so many repeat offenders are black.
  
  The first step was to reclassify violent felonies as nonviolent misdemeanors. Look at California. Assault with a deadly weapon, harming a crime victim or witness, resisting arrest that injures a police officer...Violent elder or child abuse, arson with injury, and manslaughter are now nonviolent felonies. Proposition 47--passed in 2014--reclassified certain "nonviolent felonies" as misdemeanors. Therefore prisoners convicted of violent elder abuse were released because now their former violent felony was a misdemeanor.
  
  So the Democrats first changed violent felonies to misdemeanors. Then they changed the laws for bail. Washington DC Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier resigned because criminals were being arrested, released, and arrested again the same day. Federal authorities decide who stays in jail in DC. Under pressure from Holder and Lynch, they were releasing everyone.

We don't know what you think, but that last paragraph seems to be EXACTLY what Kim Foxxx is doing by downgrading every felony she can, EXACTLY what Dart is doing emptying the jail and EXACTLY what Evans is doing by reducing/eliminating bail for supposedly "non violent" offenders. By the way, our respect for Lanier went up a notch for resigning when her Department was hamstrung by the DOJ - she cites nearly every criticism we've made the past few years. (EDIT - She's still a gun grabbing leftist tool):

• The crime rate spiked dramatically. The Democrats are pushing for "community rehabilitation programs" instead of prison. The most repulsive member of congress--@tedlieu, the guy who trolls Trump--has introduced a doozy of a bill. Lieu wants to ELIMINATE bail in the entire country. They point to the "success" of New Jersey, which eliminated bail earlier this year. In New Jersey, a person is evaluated with an eight-question form. Prior offenses are not taken into consideration. As a result almost nobody is held over until trial. Almost everyone is released. The state had to hire new staff and create new computer systems to manage the new system. Releasing everybody has so far cost New Jersey $400 million, and the crime rate is skyrocketing.
  
  Washington DC eliminated bail, and now the city pays $50 million a year to oversee almost no prisoners. Duane and Beth Chapman--He's better known as Dog the Bounty Hunter--testified in Sacramento about the new laws coming. The Chapmans pointed out every loophole they could: a guy who never shows up for trial, for example. They said that the Democrats then TWEAKED the laws to EXCLUDE any possible offender. The DC Police arrested a total of 219 violent protestors on Inauguration Day. Only 17 showed up for their trials. The Chapmans said that the Democratic party has made it a priority in 2017 to pass laws that make holding anyone in jail impossible.
  
  What I realized a long time ago is that Democrats' sole motivation is to piss off conservatives. So I'm not surprised that one of our two major parties now wants us to die at the hands of violent criminals. The end result of Democratic "reform" is that criminals now commit crimes with impunity, and people are too afraid to call the cops. There are no penalties for threatening witnesses and skipping your trial. Nobody comes looking for you. And if you get arrested, they immediately release you. You may have heard that more an more celebrities are having their mansions broken into. Alanis Morissette was robbed of $2 million worth of jewelry. This is a new crime, being committed by old gangs such and the Bloods and Crips. It's because there are no penalties. This is just one of the things Obama did to us. And the CURRENT Democrats want to make it even worse. The end.

The damage wrought by Obummer and his half-assed "social engineering" will be felt by generations of cops and victims.

Another Wrong Talking Point

Remember, weather has nothing to do with crime - so sayeth McCompStat.

And rates of gun ownership have nothing to do with crime numbers - except when it actually does:

• Amid calls nationwide for stricter gun control laws, Virginia is experiencing a unique trend: the state's gun-related crime is declining but firearms sales are increasing.
  
  Firearms sales rose 16 percent to a record 490,119 guns purchased from licensed gun dealers in 2012, according to sales estimates obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
  
  During the same period, major crimes committed with firearms dropped 5 percent to 4,378.
  
  "This appears to be additional evidence that more guns don't necessarily lead to more crime," said Thomas R. Baker, an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University's L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs who specializes in research methods and criminology theory.

So once again, McCarthy, Rahm, liberals and politicians everywhere are wrong blaming guns for crime.

We're a bit disappointed in Fox News for running that opening paragraph as every reputable study has shown for years that rising rates of gun ownership has a direct effect on the number of crimes committed. Virginia is not unique in their crime rate dropping - it's been a proven fact for years. But we suppose even Fox News has its share of liberals-in-disguise posing as actual journalists at times.

Counting Crime

Our readers have been discussing this for months, maybe a year or more. The media finally picks up the ball, but they don't know what to do with it:

• We've all listened in varying degrees of disbelief as Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis repeatedly claims that the city's violent crime rate has decreased steadily over the past nineteen (19) months.

  The Superintendent claims we live in a safer city and blames the "24-hour news cycle" for over-doing its coverage of crime and violence, especially those incidents when dozens of people are shot during one night or weekend, sometimes several victims on the same crime scene.

  Make sure you're sitting down when you read the following look "behind the numbers".

And here's how they do it:

• Roderick Drew, the police department's media affairs director, confirmed this morning that when multiple persons are shot during a barrage of gunfire in Chicago it is counted as ONE aggravated battery.

  That's right. Only one. That's because a shooting, no matter how many people are hit, is counted as a single incident.

  Just last weekend (August 6-8), there were five incidents with multiple victims. The cops counted only five aggravated batteries when in fact over 15 people were injured or killed.

  "I can't say why its counted that way", Drew told me.

  "Its that way all over the country."

Is anyone in the media going to take the next step? Do we really have to lead you by the hand? Fine, we'll give you the next questions you should be asking next time J-Fled and Shortshanks start spouting their BS numbers:

• How many people have been shot this year as compared to the same time last year?
• How many "shots fired" calls has the Department responded to as compared to the same period last year?
• How many reports have been filed alleging "I was shot at" as compared to the same time last year?

We'll even give the media the J-Fled answers so they can start preparing follow-up question:

• "I don't have those numbers in front of me at this time. I'll get back to you. Gotta run!"
• We don't keep track of those incidents that obviously didn't occur - "no victim, no crime" we always say!
• Well, you know that "no snitching" thing? It keeps the stats down a bit.

Maybe Joravsky at The Reader can do an article about fake numbers the way he did about TIP money and the vanishing beat cop. Label it "The Disappearing Crime Trends" or something.

De-Policing, the New Norm

Here's a guy who gets it, and ties it together:

• Effective law enforcement is, by its nature, proactive. Cops have to go out, meet people, observe the actions on the street, know the “usual suspects” who commit most of the crime, terrorizing the people of these, mainly, minority communities. They need to concentrate their efforts on the relatively few people who do commit the crime. And once these criminals are put in jail, guess what? Well, while they are in jail, they cannot rob or murder the people on the street trying to go on with their lives. The fewer the people who are victims of crime, the lower the crime rate is.
  
  [...]
  
  But something has happened on the way to more murders and mayhem. The Eric Holder/Loretta Lynch Justice Departments, in coordination with radical groups like Black Lives Matter and the ACLU, have made the police the targets of lawsuits, interference, harassment and other efforts to stop enforcement of the law. It climaxed with the railroading of six officers from Baltimore Police Department after the death of Freddie Gray.
  
  The results In many communities, cops are withdrawing to their safe space and going to fireman mode. Fire trucks do not patrol the street, looking for a fire. They are at their stations waiting until a call comes in. Effective policing, cannot act like that. In order to prevent crime, a cop must scan the streets looking for the proverbial “smoke.”

And he points out that it's a long road back:

• ....cops are not trusting by their nature, and after seeing officers being lynched for doing their jobs, will not stick their necks out immediately. Besides their own lives, they have families to worry about, finances, reputations. Darren Wilson did nothing wrong when he shot Michael Brown, yet he is the one who lost his job and is basically in hiding. Brown’s family is suing Wilson and Ferguson for a fortune. So until cops think they can police without being targeted for a political lynching, crime will go up, and the people hardest hit will be “women and minorities.”

It'll be years.