Once again, McCarthy's crime reduction program is bearing fruit. Unfortunately, the fruit is covered in blood during a single Wednesday afternoon/evenng:
Five men in their 20s and a teen were shot in three separate incidents Wednesday afternoon on the city’s South and West Sides, according to police.
Two men in their 20s were shot while sitting on a porch in the West Garfield Park neighborhood about 10:20 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
[...] Earlier in the day, three people were shot on the 300 block of West 60th Street in the Englewood neighborhood about 4:45 p.m., police said.
[...] Just before 3 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot in the wrist on the 5000 block of S. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.
And how's that consolidation of the detective division coming along?
- Nobody is in custody for any of the shootings and detectives are investigating.
The media might as well make that last sentence into a typeset of solid stone and put it at the bottom of every aggravated battery article. They can run corrections later if necessary.