[caveat emptor]

Murder rate is down 34% this year; this is just a blip. Rahm's running for another term and is spending big bucks to keep it down.

In recent months, as many as 400 officers a day, working overtime, have been dispatched to just 20 small zones deemed the city’s most dangerous.

[rktman]

They still go another 6 months to make up the deficit. And it hasn’t warmed up that much yet. Hot temps=hot tempers.