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More fuzzy math
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: April 19, 2014, 7:40 am
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Crime in Chicago has dramatically declined...Or has it? You
decide.
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> Chicago politicians are trumpeting last year's unprecedented
drop in crime rates, but on second glance it may be a case of
lies, damned lies, and statistics, Chicago Magazine reports.
Insiders at City Hall and the police department say that when
crime soared in 2012, Mayor Rahm Emanuel felt the pressure, and
told Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy to fix the problem or
polish up his resume. Miraculously, crime rates dropped (some by
an amazing 56%) as felonies were downgraded to minor offenses
and homicides were reclassified as "noncriminal deaths." Among
the more shocking stories:
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> Michelle Manalansan, 29, was found dead inside an air
mattress. Her death certificate said it was murder, but lacking
a suspect, police refused to call it a homicide.
> Tiara Groves, 20, was found in a warehouse, gagged and naked.
Ruled a homicide by the medical examiner, her death was
reclassified a "noncriminal death" by police.
> Millicent Brown-Johnson, 28, and her son, Jovan Perkins, 8,
died of smoke inhalation in a fire deemed arson, but police
refused to investigate them as homicides.
>
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HTML http://www.newser.com/story/185336/why-chicagos-crime-rates-got-weirdly-low.html
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Re: More fuzzy math
DIR By: Snickers
Date: April 19, 2014, 8:14 am
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> Crime in Chicago has dramatically declined...Or has it? You
decide.
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HTML http://www.newser.com/story/185336/why-chicagos-crime-rates-got-weirdly-low.html
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Well how else can Obama flunky Rahm Emanuel ever make the claim
that he reduced the murder rate in Chicago?
Same tactics as Obama...Dishonesty
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Re: More fuzzy math
DIR By: udontnojack
Date: April 19, 2014, 8:42 pm
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a good article
HTML http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/
They also played with the numbers for shootings, only counting
the numbers of shootings and not the victims. So if ten were
shot, it only counted as one shooting. Unbelieveable.
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