A pretty good explanation of how the new Rahm-math works:
- Speaking of G-Mac speaking, saw him on the news talking about how by closing three police districts he was putting more police on the street. My simple question to G-Rahm is this: how?
Let's make it simple. Districts A, B, C and D each have 20 officers, total of 80, and each district covers four square miles of land, sixteen square miles total between the four districts . To save money and add more police, according to Rahm and G-Rahm, districts will close. District A is closed by G-Rahm who says that District B, C and D will now absorb equal parts of District A. Still 16 Square miles to cover.
Now G-Rahm says the 20 0fficers will be divided up to the three remaining Districts to add more police to the street. District B gets seven officers, C gets seven, D gets six. So, twenty officers are now added to the sixty officers already in the three districts covering 16 square miles. Total amount of officers covering the same 16 square miles: 80.
How is this adding more police to the street? It's a con so the city can say "well District B used to have 20 policemen, now they have 27. We gave them more." Sounds great in a soundbite. Never mention that the 7 extra officers are just covering the same amount of land that they were previously. Smoke and mirrors from G-Rahm. Simple math, it's a beautiful thing.
And all that without hiring a single police officer.