With numbers like these, shouldn't the media be picking up on something?
- A 15-year-old boy along with eight others were injured in separate shootings in less than eight hours across Chicago, police said.
What is this, March? Yes, the weather has been warm, but the regularly scheduled "spring offensive" that usually follows a long winter stint indoors has just been continuation of the fall battles that saw aggravated batteries and homicides rise during September, October, November and December.
Now we're looking at a March that will probably top 200 shootings by a wide margin and set a few records. CompStat isn't doing anything to stop shootings and we're getting all sorts of crazy info on these "violence zone" initiatives in 007 and 011 that we can't believe.
We have reached the top of a very steep hill where manpower is concerned and even a hiring wave like the early 1980s or mid 1990s would still put us half-a-year from adequate staffing. And that's half-a-year past the NATO summit, a possible Bulls celebration, another 400-plus retirements, and what looks like a bloody summer.