Last December, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy held a press conference to share the good news: the city was on its way to having “its lowest homicide rate since 1967 and its lowest violent crime rate for nearly as long.”
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The books seem to have been cooked, as Western Journalism reports:
This year, the IG’s office finalized an audit of assault related crimes in the city during 2012. The audit found that “…the department under-counted aggravated assaults and batteries by more than 24 percent, based on the sample cases reviewed.” Chicago Magazine discovered examples of 10 murders, people “…who were beaten, burned, suffocated, or shot to death in 2013 and whose cases were reclassified as death investigations, downgraded to more minor crimes, or even closed as noncriminal incidents…”
In short, crime isn’t down in Chicago. But that hasn’t stopped frustrated Chicagoans from starting the sardonic #CrimeIsDown hashtag to punctuate each new report of violence.
17 people shot in Chicago from 6am today until 10pm this evening. Wow. #CrimeIsDown
— Coach Chris (@Chrisalert1) April 21, 2014
Person shot on 19th St (missed the cross), GSW to the junk, in serious condition at Stroger. #ChicagoScanner #CrimeIsDown
— HeyJackass.com (@w_h_thompson) April 21, 2014
From a shooting 1700 N. Pulaski, 3 males all 15-18 y/o, 1 fired 4 shots & they fled w/b Wabansia #Chicago #CrimeIsDown
— ?????????????? (@Chicago_Scanner) April 21, 2014
#crimeisdown RT @BreakinNewz01 #CHICAGO | 5 children shot, among at least 35 wounded over the weekend in Chicago – @ABC7Chicago
— Dispatch Demon (@DispatchDemon) April 21, 2014
025: Possible person shot Armitage/Lawndale, self transporting to ER #Chicago #CrimeIsDown
— ?????????????? (@Chicago_Scanner) April 22, 2014
Gun shot victim just rolled into Holy Cross #Chicago #CrimeIsDown
— ?????????????? (@Chicago_Scanner) April 22, 2014
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025: Male shot 1928 N. Monticello, GSW to right side abdomen #Chicago #CrimeIsDown
— ?????????????? (@Chicago_Scanner) April 22, 2014
#CrimeIsDown RT @chrissmith: Two shooting incidents have just occurred in the past 10 minutes in the 7th and 25th districts. #ChicagoScanner
— HeyJackass.com (@w_h_thompson) April 22, 2014
From 59/Ashland, he has a GSW to the ankle and a GSW to the back. #CrimeIsDown #ChicagoScanner
— Spot News (@SPOTNEWSonIG) April 22, 2014
025: Male shot 1928 N. Monticello, GSW to right side abdomen #Chicago #CrimeIsDown
— ?????????????? (@Chicago_Scanner) April 22, 2014
Just heard someone yell "imma shoot you motherfucker" outside my house. No shots yet. #CrimeIsDown #Chicago
— unfard (@unfard) April 21, 2014
#Chicago's April weekends of
4/4: 2 killed, 25 wounded
4/11: 5 killed, 32 wounded
4/18: 8 killed, 37 wounded#CrimeIsDown #ItsNotTheWeather— HeyJackass.com (@w_h_thompson) April 22, 2014
#Chicago's Weekend Shitshow:
45 shot (8 killed, 37 wounded)
2 double homicides
4 critical, 11 serious
38guys/7gals, 17 teens#CrimeIsDown— HeyJackass.com (@w_h_thompson) April 22, 2014
Lots of gunshots on the south side tonight.#mercuryrising#crimeisdown
— Big Brother (@I_amBigBrother) April 22, 2014
This can’t be; Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.
“@ChicagoCurrent: Chicago gang shootings go on as Mayor Emanuel boasts crime at 'record low' http://t.co/d4A4lLtLS4”#CrimeIsDown ???
— concerned citizen (@3200nwilton44th) April 20, 2014
If this is the start of what's to come this summer, summer needs to slow down. #chicago #crimeisdown
— ITakePix (@slow911) April 21, 2014
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