Chicago & Policing (new title)

[Boondoggle]

and they have a lot of interaction with work done in Iraq.

http://www.mnfwest.usmc.mil/public/i...2572A90047CB50

http://chicagocopwatch.org/2009/02/m...s-fight-crime/

I had a friend who deployed with the Marine bn that is local to Chicago around '04 and '05 south of Baghdad, and I remember a spate of articles on their deployment that associated their anti-gang work with how they would approach their work in Iraq. Here is a NY Times article on them and that deployment: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...pagewanted=all

So its doubling interesting that violence has soared this year. Obviously there are many, many factors that lead to that, but still interesting.

[Majormarginal]

There was a lot more death in the late 80's and early 90's. More of those shot are surviving. Some are shot intentionally to wound. There is a lot more violence directed towards the police.