Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Screw the Stupid, Phony Crime Stats, I Care about Individual Sob Stories! Besides, Crime is Dropping; Why Didn't Anyone

Impose My Worthless Policies Sooner?
 

Chicago Tribune caption: “Mayor Rahm Emanuel listens during the second annual National Summit on Preventing Youth Violence April 2, 2012 in Washington, DC. The summit was to discuss about the crisis of youth and gang violence in the U.S. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) / April 12, 2012)” [Emanuel’s white Internet critics call him “raccoon eyes.”]
 

By Nicholas Stix
April 15, 2012, 1:16 a.m.; expanded at 4:12 a.m.

Rahm Emanuel has to make those bodies and shooting stats disappear. It’s his only hope.

Right now, he’s got a conflict between his phony numbers showing crime dropping month after month, for over three years, and all these dead and wounded every extended weekend—for shooting purposes, in Chicago the weekend starts on Thursday night. (The first quarter of this year versus the same period last year shows homicides up 60 percent and non-fatal shootings up 37 percent, but crime overall down 10 percent, and rape down 15 percent.)

Something’s gotta give. Rahm is doing his best imitation of a black pol, dealing in contradictions and emotionalism, but he’s a white Jew; what blacks love coming from a fellow black or honorary black like Bill Clinton, they despise coming from a non-black, especially from a Jew like Rahm, whom King “Barack” himself stabbed in the back during the election, even if Emanuel is a Democrat.

So, what he’s got to do is make the shooting and, particularly, homicide stats match the other crime stats. (Everyone on the street will know it's a farce, but they love being pandered to, and the more implausible the lie, the better.)

What’s that you say, “You can’t just make bodies disappear?” Of course, not. You make reports disappear. The bodies are in the morgue (and eventually, the cemetery), the hospital, and briefly, the emergency room. But if there’s no report that a shooting or homicide occurred, then it never happened. And since the killers are virtually all black, if there should be fewer reports of raceless shooters wounding and killing raceless vics, the media will play ball.

I have only one example of such practices in action, but suspect there are many more.

As I wrote in my August, 1996, investigative report, “Crime Stories” for Chronicles magazine,

… on January 29, 1996, Newsday’s Leonard Levitt charged that the city had failed to disclose a recent double-rape, a shooting homicide, and the fatal shooting of a car thief by a cop.

Levitt only learned about the four incidents (the rape victims were a mother and daughter), because either victims or their survivors contacted him. The NYPD’s response was that some mysterious reporter had stolen the sheets with the reports of those incidents from the Press Room at One Police Plaza.

(An old, retired copper friend reminds me not to take anything from Levitt, an old lefty hater of white cops—unless they’re pc—on faith, but the facts seemed to back him up at the time.)

My hunch is that over the past 20 or so years, an awful lot of “reporters” have been “stealing” those press room incident reports in New York and other cities claiming massive reductions in violent crime, especially shootings and homicides.

One can have a corpse in a morgue drawer, yet retain a certain “flexibility” in what one writes on his toe tag. “Accidental death,” “suicide,” “undetermined,” etc.

I’m not saying that the Chicago PD should lie about homicides and non-fatal shootings the way it lies about everything else, only that as long as Chicago remains majority black and Hispanic, and those groups are dominated by racist ethnic gangs and violent, racial supremacist ideologies, the city’s crime situation will not improve. (There’s your triad: Demographics, ideologies, and group practices.)

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Mayor Emanuel on crime stats
By John Byrne
1:40 p.m. CDT, April 12, 2012
Chicago Tribune

Mayor Rahm Emanuel defended his crime fighting strategies Thursday in the face of statistics that show a 60 percent rise in homicides in Chicago so far this year.

Asked whether he can reassure Chicagoans that his policies work despite the surge in violence in the first months of 2012, Emanuel wondered why some of the initiatives he and Police Supt. Garry McCarthy have undertaken were not done earlier.

"The question is -- you can say 'Are you doing it right?' -- the question is, why were those policies not done before? Why was it the police department was not organized to have a gang audit to do pro-active efforts to intervene on reprisal shootings that are driving the numbers? We're doing that," Emanuel said.

The mayor pointed to an earlier curfew he pushed for young children, his effort to reassign police officers from desk jobs to patrol and other changes he has backed in an effort to lower crime.

He also said he didn't want to dwell on the statistics, then pointed out overall crime is down and he has been mayor less than a year.

"I don't want to get into statistics, because these are human stories. As I just told you, we have -- overall crime is down 10 percent," Emanuel said. "I've been in office 10 months."

From Jan. 1 through April 1 this year, 120 homicides were recorded in Chicago, up from 75 in the same period in both 2011 and 2010, according to Chicago Police Department statistics. Nonfatal shootings totaled almost 490 in the first three months of 2012, up 37 percent from a year earlier.

Crime in every other major category fell, including a 15 percent drop in sexual assaults and a 10 percent decline in burglaries. Overall crime dropped 10 percent citywide, according to the department.

"I am not happy at all with the statistics, and beyond the statistics are the human tragedies that occur, and the terror in this city," Emanuel said at a news conference to announce investments in clean-up of the Chicago River with Gov. Pat Quinn on Goose Island.

jebyrne@tribune.com
 

[Thanks to reader-researcher “W” for this story.

From WEJB/NSU’s Chicago files:

“Illinois Sentencing Guideline for Robbery + Assault + Attempted Murder by a Black on a White: One Year;

“Chicago: 21-Year-Old Shoots 84-Year-Old for ‘Disrespecting’ Him (with a Surprise Ending!)”;

“Chicago is Enriched by ‘Jaliscan’ (or is It ‘Arizonan’?) and ‘African’ Diversity”;

“Shooting at Whitey: Running the Gauntlet in Chicago Public Transportation”;

“Amish Gone Wild: Chicago Police Brace for ‘Flash Mob’ Attacks”;

“Walter Williams: America's new racists”;

“Chicago: Fifty-Strong, Black Robbery Mob Hits Walgreens on the Magnificent Mile”;

“The Great Chicago Memorial Day Gang Attack Cover-Up”;

“Convicted Murderer to Chicago Tribune’s Dawn Turner Trice: ‘I’m Not a Murderer’”;

“One Act of Memorial Day Weekend Violence That Neither the Chicago Police Department Nor the New York Times Tried to Cover Up”;

“Cognitive Dissonance in Chicago: Last Weekend, 20 People were Shot and 5 Killed of All Ages and in All Situations, Yet Crime is Dropping Like a Rock!”;

“Chicago Tribune Editor to Readers: It’s None of Your Damned Business, Who’s Racially Targeting Whites and Asians for All of These Ceaseless, Brutally Violent Crimes!”;

“Speaking Truth to Black Power in Chicago”;

“Edward Vincent Hanrahan (1921-2009): He Helped Kill Fred Hampton”;

“Air Conditioner Attacks Chicago Sister, Causing a Brother’s Murder”;

“Lynch Mob of Seven Blacks Rob, and Try to Stomp to Death Raceless 18-Year-Old in Chicago’s Chinatown”;

“DADT/Due Diligence, Diversity-Style: For Years, Illinois State Program Did No Background Checks, and Paid Black Convicted Rapists to be Baby-Sitters”;

“The Black Wall of Silence: Harvey, IL, Police Department Conspired for at Least 14 Years to Protect Black Rapists; County Prosecutor’s Office Had to Raid Local PD, in Order to Rescue Stashed Rape Kits”;

“Video: In Racist Attack in Chicago, Two Huge, Fat, Black Sisters, 17 and 18, Jump Skinny Spanish Girl, 14, in Bio Class, Beat Her for 6-7 Minutes, Leaving Her with a Concussion and Internal Injuries; Frightened, Helpless,White Teacher Does Nothing”;

“12 Shot in 11.5 Hours, as Violent Crime Continues to Plummet in Chicago”;

“In Chicago: Happy Birthday … You’re Dead!”;

“7 Dead, 3 Injured Out of Ecuadorean Extended Family in Minivan; Van Hit Deer, was Hit by Semi; No One Wore Seatbelts”;

“The Kelli O'Laughlin Slaying: The Crazy Card, Again”;

“Media Alchemy: Sun-Times, Fox News Staffers Transform a Robbery into “a Fight over a Cell Phone”;

“Federal Judges Thwart Justice, on Behalf of Cop-Killers… Again”;

“Chicago Tribune Breaks with Policy, and Racially IDs Perps in Home Invasion!”;

“The Gouger II: Exulam I. Holman Allegedly Gouged Out Uncle’s Eyes Over TV Remote”;

“Chicago Cops Release Photos of Negro Execution-Killers Celebrating Christmas”;

“Here’s a Mass Murder That Not Only the Nat'l MSM, but Even the Local Chicago Tribune Doesn’t Want Known: Cedric Anderson Murdered 4 Yesterday”;

“Chicago: Spree-Killer Dante Simmons Murders Troy Cameron, 22, Anton Sanders, 15, Shoots Up Chicago Walgreen’s, City Bus, Then Does Taxpayers a Favor”;

“Chicago: Rogers Park Gang Hit at Traffic Light Claims Lives of Dion Miller and Jonathan Bell; Killings Follow Pair the Previous Night.”;

“Six Shot Saturday Night on Chicago’s South Side; One Dead, as Crime Continues to Drop!”;

“Chicago: Murders Exploded in January, While Overall Crime Died”;

“Rub-Out by Hispanic Gang in Chicago Suburb of North Lake Claims James Romero, 18”;

“Chicago: 8 Shot, 2 Dead, in 7.3 Hours Saturday Night, as Crime Continues to Drop”;

“Chicago: 13 Hours, 17 Shot, 1 Dead, as Crime Continues Its Brutal Decline”;

“In Chicago’s Vibrant Little Village Section, 2 Latin Kings are Accused of Killing Girl, 6, from a ‘Two Six’ Gang Family; Police Cover for One Suspect; Chicago Tribune Turns Hispanic Gangbangers into ‘Teens’;5 Shot within 1 Hour”;

“34 Shot in Chicago Over Weekend: 1/16 Friday Night, 5/12 Saturday Night; as Crime Continues to Plummet”;

“Chicago’s Ultra-Violent Racist Derrick King, Again: Prosecutors Magically Transform Felonies Attempted Robbery and Making Terroristic Threats into ‘Misdemeanor Assault,’ While AOL’s Huffington Post Transforms Two Violent Felony Convictions into ‘Accusations’”;

“More Derrick King News, Out of Chicago!”;

“Trayvon Martin: Racist Terrorist Rep. Bobby Rush (Race-Chicago/Black Panthers), is Thrown Off House Floor for Donning a Hoodie, and Denouncing ‘Racial Profiling’; CBS ‘News’ Soldiers on with Race Hoax”;

“Chicago Shooters Don’t Wait for Weekend: 13 Shot, 2 Dead in 6 hours Thursday Night, as Crime Continues to Fall!”;

“Only 3 Shot on a Thursday Night in Chicago: Light Night, or Poor Shooting?”

“Chicago: Homicides Up 60%, Non-Fatal Shootings Up 37%, and Overall… Crime is Down 10%, and Rape is Down 15%?!”; and

“Chicago Shooters Get the Weekend Started Early, Shooting 8 on Thursday Night, Including a 7-Year-Old Girl, Killing 1, While Crime Continues to Drop.”]