Once again, the media is running with numbers (2 to 4 dead, 24 shot) that don't seem to track with actual events:
- Woke up to 27 messages about shootings on the blackberry this am. Crime is down!
As did I. But if you count the numbers several shootings had multiple victims. In 024 one of the shootings had three victims. In 003 two got shot one dead. I think another shooting had two shot but not sure where it was at. It was wild last night and even into the early morning. Since 5pm last night There were about 30 shot in the city and 2 dead. One or two others are still hanging on but are in critical condition...
And an update:
- sorry, I was wrong. I just added up the total number off my blackberry and the total number of people shot from Saturday 0000hrs and Sunday 0600hrs was 31 total shot.. of those 31 two were dead. Thats 31 total shot in 30 hours. Just a little more than one per hour... not bad.
It sure would be nice to get an actual count one of these days. Crime is down? Not even close.