Posted on 01/04/2016 8:18:26 AM PST by Zakeet
While the video release of a Chicago police officer's shooting of Laquan McDonald prompted a domino effect of change, including the ousting of the police superintendent and a federal civil rights investigation, the department finished 2015 on an ironic note: Officers shot the fewest people that they have in years.
Chicago police officers shot 22 people in 2015, eight of them fatally. That's a 40 percent drop in the total number of people shot compared with 2014, when 37 people were hit by police gunfire and 16 of them were killed, according to department figures.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Putting things into perspective ... something that you won't find very often in the mainstream media these days ... there were 2,900 shootings and 468 murders in Chicago in 2015. Both were a record for the city and were the highest in the U.S. Something else the Tribune forgot to ask ... something else that you won't find very often in the mainstream media these days ... was whether the reluctance of the police to use force might have contributed to the carnage.
And yet the number of people that need a’shooten has risen in Chicago.
Fewer killed by cops but more killed by hoods in da ‘hood.
That was certainly the case in Baltimore.
Also:
Daily Caller News Foundation
How WaPo Used Misleading Stats To Hit Police On Suspect Shootings
Blake Neff
Reporter
4:59 PM 12/27/2015
The Washington Post has published a lengthy year-end report on fatal police shootings in the U.S. that hints at possible police bias in the form of disproportionate killing of unarmed black men. Deceptive statistics that nakedly push a narrative substantially taint the report’s objectivity, and call into question its conclusions.
Post staff decided to log every fatal police shooting since 2014, after Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The report places emphasis on the rate at which police officers kill black men. Early in the article is the following sentence:
Although black men make up only 6 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 40 percent of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year, The Post’s database shows.
At the beginning of the sentence, the Post specifically references “black men” as a percentage of the total population (which, it should be noted, men represent slightly less than half). In the second half of the sentence, they shift to considering black men as a percentage of only men (the more relevant figure, since almost all people killed by police are men, regardless of race). The Post’s wording suggests black men are being killed at over seven times the expected rate.
In fact, since black men are about 13 percent of men, and those killed by police are almost exclusively men, black men are killed by police at just under 3.5 times the expected rate. Purely through its framing, the Post is making the rate at which black men are killed by police look twice as bad as it really is. And the distinction is important, because the Post’s framing suggests the police treat black men radically different from other people, leading to more deaths, while the more honest figure comes much closer to reflecting the substantially higher crime rates among black men.
That’s not the only way the report relies on sleight of hand to frame police shootings. For example, the report ominously notes that 243 shootings, about a quarter of the total, involved people who were suicidal or had mental problems. In the main report, the Post notes that more than 90 percent of these mentally troubled people were armed, usually with a gun, when they were killed (the same rate as the population at large). But in a side article on “6 Important Takeaways” from the report, that critical fact is left out, and the fact that 90 percent of all police shootings involved an armed victim is left until the very end.
The Post’s reporting has nevertheless unearthed several useful facts. For instance, the report found that over 75 percent of fatal shootings are in direct response to a violent attack with a gun or other weapon. The Post also found that despite growing pressure for police to wear body cameras at all times, only 6 percent of fatal shootings were caught on said cameras.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/27/how-wapo-used-misleading-stats-to-hit-police-on-suspect-shootings/
In that same time, blacks in Chicago murdered more than 400 people. Most of the black murderers' victims were also black.
#BlackLivesDONTMatter
New Year’s weekend toll: 38 wounded, four killed in shootings in Chicago
Peter Nickeas Contact Reporter
Jan 4, 2016
At least four people were killed and 38 others wounded in shootings since the afternoon of New Year’s Eve and through the weekend, according to police.
Five people were shot, none fatally, the night of New Year’s Eve before midnight.
The 33 shot over the first three days of the new year is more than double the amount of people that were shot last year — only 15 people were wounded the first three days of 2015.
The first night of the extended weekend — Thursday into Friday — saw 17 people shot, two of them fatally.
Another 7 were shot, one fatally, the next night.
Saturday night, a 16-year-old boy was killed and 14 others were wounded.
Three others were shot Sunday night.
The violent weekend capped a year that saw the shooting and homicide count climb past their 2014 totals. Last year, more than 2,900 people were shot and 470 people were killed.
Yep ... opened up like “Gangbusters”.
h/t: SecondCityCopblog
CHICAGO
January to Date
Shot & Killed: 5
Shot & Wounded: 34
Total Shot: 39
Total Homicides: 5
Someone needs more range time.
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