Chicago & Policing (new title)

[davidbfpo]

A lengthy Time article, with the oddity of CPD being seen as a 'laboratory' when reality was hellish:

Just a few months ago, the Chicago police department was regarded as America's laboratory of police science

Link:http://time.com/chicago-police-3/?xid=tcoshare

Curiously one cited witness features as a CPD officer who by mistake kills the wrong citizen.

[davidbfpo]

From a tweet by Brookings, which might just explain Chicago's problem, or those parts where murders are all too regular:

If you shoot someone in Chicago, you have a 91% chance of getting away with it.

There maybe more in this report, which offers solutions to youth crime there:http://www.brookings.edu/research/po...1US0001-070602

[AdamG]

Sunday, August 28, 2016 08:34AM

CHICAGO -- Seven people were killed and at least 38 more have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday, police said.

http://abc7chicago.com/news/7-dead-3...tings/1488222/

For current 2016 stats, see http://heyjackass.com/

To whit -
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 435
Shot & Wounded: 2401
Total Shot: 2836
Total Homicides: 483

[Bill Moore]

I couldn't help myself after seeing the following article.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ch...-idUSKBN14G1MJ

Holiday weekend provides no respite from Chicago's violence

From Dec. 23 through Dec. 26, there were 44 shooting incidents in the city of 2.7 million and 12 people were killed, according to the Chicago Police Department. The number of murders in Chicago stands at 754 for the year.

I Googled Iraq's population, in 2013 it was 33.42 million, which divided by Chicago's population = 12.38 multiply that by the number murdered in Chicago (so far this year), and that equals to 9,334.5 murders in Iraq. Iraq may have that many people killed this year (maybe not), but they're at war.

Clearly, eight years of a Democratic President, and unknown years of a Democratic Mayor has done little for Chicago. I hope President elect is serious about addressing the problems in our inner cities. We spend more money on Egypt than we do addressing our problems at home.

[davidbfpo]

Added here even if the focus is not Chicago, but the wider issue of murder in the USA.

The BBC's report does mention Chicago:

In Chicago, murders rose sharply last year, with more than 760 last year compared with 473 the year before. Up to then, there had been a steady fall in the number of murders since a peak of the early 70s.

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38911708

The Economist has been number crunching the figures for fifty cities producing some good charts. An interesting point made:

Newark, just ten miles from New York City, has a murder rate nine times higher. And unlike New York, where homicides have fallen 85% from their peak in 1990, in Newark they have barely budged. Much of that difference can be explained by demography, deprivation and policing.

Link:http://www.economist.com/blogs/graph.../daily-chart-3

[davidbfpo]

This thread's title from 2008 was Gonna be a hot summer in Chicago and has remained active.

The title has been changed to Chicago & Policing; the city's problems have not changed and its not just the summer alas either when deaths occur.

[davidbfpo]

A detailed BBC article on CPD's use of technology, not 'big data' and with civilian analysts drafted in. It has several graphics.

This passage puzzles me, as surely this is the standard method of post-event investigation:

Using a piece of predictive software called HunchLab, they translate the data into "missions", which can involve anything from talking to local business owners in certain areas to watching certain surveillance feeds at certain times.

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40293666