As McOutOfTown gives a speech at the ICAP conferences about how he single-handedly introduced police work to Chicago, USA Today does a front page spread on the Chicago bloodbath:
- Driven by gangs, drugs and guns, the bloodshed in President Obama's adopted hometown has resulted in a body count that exceeds the 312 murders this year in New York and 212 in Los Angeles, cities with populations dwarfing that of the Windy City. The toll here is up 25% from 2011: 391 through Sept. 23.
Last week, two men who had been beaten to death were found in the trunk of a car. The same day, a 17-year-old boy and a 33-year-old man were found shot to death. Those and others to be added to the official tally push the number of homicides in Chicago through September to the 400 mark for the first time since 2003. That year, 601 murders were documented here; annual totals have been in the 400s since 2009.
This lie is still making the rounds:
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy have deployed more police to the most deadly areas, sought help from federal agencies and swept up guns and drugs and the people who possessed them.
Moving around existing assets isn't "deploy[ing]" - it's shuffling the deck. The rest of the article is a mish-mash of "reverends," some "former" gang bangers and a bunch of smoke-generating that solves nothing.