Chicago & Policing (new title)

[JohnBertetto]

All of CPD's directives are publicly available on the 'net. Submitted for your review:

The CPD's Gang Violence Reduction Strategy -
http://directives.chicagopolice.org/....html?ownapi=1

The links analysis used is based on the research and theory of violent crime spreading proposed by Dr Andrew Papachristos -
http://papachristos.org/Publications...orked_crim.pdf

"I created a ““two-degree”” network. The ““1 rst degree”” entailed extracting all known associates with whom avictim had been arrested during this time period. The simple assumption is that if two individuals are arrested together, they are likely to have some ““association”” or friendship. Thus, a tie exists when two (or more) individuals have been arrested together. The ““two-degree”” network emerges by repeating the 1 rst step for all of the associates of those from the 1 rst-degree networks. This two-step process reveals the network structure in Figure 5.7, which began with 119 homicide victims and grew to a total number of 1,638 individuals——less than 2 percent of the total population in these neighborhoods."

[davidbfpo]

Chicago police face overwhelming gun crime as 45 people shot over weekend; Police officials point to need for stricter gun laws after city suffers bloody Easter weekend in which nine people were killed

Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ce-nine-killed

[davidbfpo]

This thread was closed in 2014, it then had 40 posts and 14k views. It has now been re-opened in view of recent developments.

[davidbfpo]

Policing in Chicago has come to the attention of The Economist with a long article on the current position and the start of reforms:http://www.economist.com/blogs/democ..._police_force_

A couple of sentences illustrate CPD's problems:

The last six months has been one of the worst periods in the CPD’s history....The number of people shot in Chicago so far this year passed 1,000 this week, six to nine weeks earlier than in the previous four years, according the Chicago Tribune. Murders rose 64% in the period from January 1st to April 17th. If current trends continue, as seems likely, Chicago’s murder rate will reach around 570 by the end of the year, up from 468 last year and 416 in 2014....One of the reasons for the spike in shootings and murders is the low morale of CPD officers. Many feel that they are doing a tough, unpopular job.

Thanks to a Chicago "lurker" for this graphic, which sadly says far more on the crime rate:http://heyjackass.com/#st_refDomain=...ery=/appsuite/

[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