From MSN:
Chicago officials laud 15th consecutive month of declining gun violence
By Ray Sanchez and Ryan Young, CNN 11 hrs ago
CHICAGO, IL – JUNE 30: It seemed a typical month in the nation’s third largest city. …
The occasional spasms of violence, though, are not keeping Chicago officials from lauding the 15th consecutive month of declining gun violence in a city frequently targeted by President Donald Trump as a symbol of rampant crime.
“This is a Trump-free zone,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel told CNN this week. “We have facts. What matters … is what happens on the street.”
The city has had 52 fewer murders and 229 fewer shootings through the end of May — a 21% drop in both categories — compared to the first five months of 2017, according to the Chicago Police Department.
May alone saw a 21% decline in murders compared to last year — from 58 to 46 — along with a 5% drop in shooting incidents, police said.
So far this year, Chicago has had 500 fewer shooting victims than the same period in 2016, police said.
The city has made considerable gains over the past year. It saw a 16% drop in murders from 2016 — the deadliest year in nearly two decades, with 771 murders — to 2017, when there were 650.
Uh, how long has Trump been President, Rahm? Sixteen months?
While the data suggest a downward trend in both murders and shootings, crime tends to pick up with warmer weather, said Arthur Lurigio, a professor of psychology and criminal justice at Loyola University Chicago.
“If this trend continues until Labor Day, Chicago might be on its way to a year with 500 or fewer homicides, which is closer to the normative number of murders in recent history, beginning in 2004 and factoring out 2016 and 2017 as aberrations,” he said.
And why were 2016 and 2017 aberrations? Did it have something to do with all the anti-police changes imposed on Chicago from November 2015 to January 2016 with the backing of the Community Organizer-in-Chief? Changes that the Trump Administration dropped?
From blog in March 2016:
Murders Up 84% in Chicago; in Unrelated News, ACLU, White House Cracking Down on Chicago PD for Racism, March 28, 2016
It’s almost as if the Ferguson Effect were real …
