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Originally Posted by pdxtex
wow, just reading about chicago stats from last year. murder was up 57%, five seven!, and chicago represented nearly half of all murders contributing to the nationwide spike. thats impressive. not being on the ground, whats the deal? extraordinary corruption, under staffed, fergusson effect, public housing demolition, mega gangs?? chicago crime should merit its own thread.
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CPD essentially went into reactive mode rather than proactive mode because moral was low (their excuse, not mine) and they didn't want to have to fill out a two page report if they wanted to stop-and-frisk someone versus the index card sized document they used before. Rahm even referred to officers as having become "fetal."
The corruption is the same, while officer levels are down from previous years there wasn't a major difference between 2015 and 2016 levels as far as I'm aware, the Ferguson Effect has been blamed, the large projects have been gone for ages at this point, and the gang problem is splintered gangs rather than mega gangs. Chicago and the feds dropping the hammer on gang leadership in previous years, in addition to the projects demolition scattering members to the wind, splintered the gangs. Now people are murdering each other over Facebook and Twitter posts and fighting over literal street corners, if the local media is to be believed.
Rahm did claim the city is going to hire a bunch of new officers (with what money, I don't know), but it's only going to bolster the police force back to its 2011 number or something like that. Evidently retiring cops have been outstripping new hires for years.