Crime Drops Again?

Twenty-eight straight months? Who the hell is counting this stuff - CPS graduates?

• Overall crime in Chicago dropped for the 28th consecutive month in April, Chicago police said today. Crime dropped 7.2 percent when compared with last April.

  Homicides fell by 14.2 percent compared to April 2010, with 17 fewer killings, police said citing preliminary numbers. Nearly half of the 25 police districts throughout the city showed a decrease in homicide numbers, with decreases in the double or triple digits, police said in a statement.

  While property crime decreased by 6.1 percent compared to a year ago -- with thefts dropping by 12.9 percent and burglary dropping by 4.7 percent -- motor vehicle thefts continued to soar with thefts increasing by 20.1 percent, police said. Arsons also increased by 7.7 percent, police said.

The bad news is that if crime drops for the next two months, Chicago is going to end up owing crime. So at some point, Governor Quinn is going to have to release another 1,800 inmates in order to maintain crime numbers in the not-to-distant future.

Seriously though, does anyone actually believe this crap?