Time To Panic?
Posted on February 24, 2016
Not long ago, monthly press releases and/or parading politicians would proclaim crime has never been more down. Now it’s silence because crime hasn’t been this up in nearly 20 years.
“The city is on track to have 700 murders in 2016, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said Wednesday. That would be the highest number of homicides in Chicago in nearly 20 years.
Homicides have already nearly doubled this year, with more than 93 99 murders since the start of January. There were only 52 murders in all of January and February last year.
If the city does have 700 or more homicides this year, it will be the highest number of murders since 1998, when 704 people were killed.”
700 to us seems like a bit of a stretch, but certainly within the realm of possibilities. We’re thinking more like the low 600s.
Of course, there can only be one explanation:
“The cause? An “epidemic of gun violence and a flood of illegal guns,” she said, echoing what Mayor Rahm Emanuel and former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy have been saying for years.”
They should pass a law or something. That’ll fix it.