My sympathies to anyone who has to deal with that <3 <3 <3
I have listened to Chicago Police-radio a few times, it really is a war zone. Hearing those calls coming in so fast and furious you get a true sense of how overwhelmed they are, the dispatchers' job sounds as stressful as an air-traffic controller.
I have flown through Chicago on my way elsewhere, so all I have seen is the boarding-zones at O'Hare. From what I have seen online, the nicer parts of Chicago look to be a wealthy bustling modern city, more so than I expected considering the news reports. (As I understand it, the bulk of the shootings/violence are mostly confined to the low-rent/high-crime part of town.)
It may seem that I'm poking fun of the Chicago murder rate in my previous postings but I'm really not (I've been tracking this for some time now.) It's more that I'm aghast at the magnitude, not just the violence but the unbelievably incompetent/corrupt local government/police. If you read any random entry at the Second City Cop blog, you will find a Babylon Bee-level of WTF. One might think these stories of criminal-coddling and administrative misbehavior/incompetence are made up, but sadly no.
My sympathies to anyone who has to deal with that <3 <3 <3
I have listened to Chicago Police-radio a few times, it really is a war zone. Hearing those calls coming in so fast and furious you get a true sense of how overwhelmed they are, the dispatchers' job sounds as stressful as an air-traffic controller.
I have flown through Chicago on my way elsewhere, so all I have seen is the boarding-zones at O'Hare. From what I have seen online, the nicer parts of Chicago look to be a wealthy bustling modern city, more so than I expected considering the news reports. (As I understand it, the bulk of the shootings/violence are mostly confined to the low-rent/high-crime part of town.)
It may seem that I'm poking fun of the Chicago murder rate in my previous postings but I'm really not (I've been tracking this for some time now.) It's more that I'm aghast at the magnitude, not just the violence but the unbelievably incompetent/corrupt local government/police. If you read any random entry at the Second City Cop blog, you will find a Babylon Bee-level of WTF. One might think these stories of criminal-coddling and administrative misbehavior/incompetence are made up, but sadly no.
The Chicago Homicide Clearance Rate for 2019 was 12.2%. That means approximately 88% of homicide cases went cold with no suspect charged. This is not such a surprise considering the Chicago Police superintendent was forced to resign after being caught passed-out drunk in his car. Between the "snitches get stitches" code of "honor" in the hood and the courts' tendency to plead major offenses down to a wrist-slap (leading to more gun crime as those gun criminals hit the streets unpunished) it's an appalling situation.
>And as crazy as those stats are, the crime/murder rate is actually down a bit since Our President took office.
tl;dr Pardon my gallows-humor, this stuff is unbelievably extreme to an outsider <3 <3 <3