The city plans to redeploy 138 officers from lockup duty to district beats. Emanuel said that brings the number of new cops on the streets since he took office stands at 1,019.
But many of those officers were already working the streets in special units that worked all over the city, rather than staying within specific districts. About 600 of the officers who have been redeployed came from desk duties, but the rest came from specialized units that were working the streets.
Emanuel bristled when reporters challenged his numbers at a press conference at the Chicago Lawn District, which has 62 more officers from the reassignments this year.
“I got it. I’m only 132 days into a four-year term,” Emanuel said. “But 1,019 officers have been applied from where they were before to the street and the most important number of this is not the 1,019 – that here in the 8th District, Chicago Lawn, there has been a 25 percent drop from last year’s crime. That’s the number that I focus on.”
With McJersey "in charge" and Rahm only being able to count to 9-and-a-half on his hands, no wonder crime is "down." There's a 5% reduction at the tips of his fingers to start with.
Nice to see the media picking up on the bullshit Rahm is throwing around.