If your hypothesis is that liberal policies lead to reports of violence like this, then why is the North Side of Chicago one of the safest and richest cities in the United States?
I'd say that the numbers are skewed in the northern burbs to protect the "Chicago money", Wealth, and property values. When the Tribune was asked why its reporting on stats didn't include:
"a 2009 triple murder in Wilmette. This was on March 3, 2009. The suburbanite who had already committed a double murder, now took his own life and that of his wife and kid. Several months later, the Tribune/Redeye seems to deny that these homicides took place. What else have our Chicago Newspapers forgotten to tell us about actual suburban crime rate based upon the census? Must the City folk not hear about North Shore homicides? It certainly reports Chicago statistics to the suburbanites!"
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"As the Morse Hell hole occasionally belches crime, the burbs bury it with bravado! We don't hear about the large scale drug busts. Sometimes, we hear about the Rezko's. Is the goal to keep suburban real estate values up? Do racial and economic barriers keep crime out? Does the decision to create schools with 99% white students benefit society (e.g. Braeside School, under 1% Black; Highland Park)?"
The Rogers Park Inconsistent - Chicago, Illinois: The Skewed Crime Blotter for the Northshore
If you knew anything about Chicago, this should be easy to answer.
:lamo Why is it that liberals feel they must always throw in that little snarky jab to everything they respond to? Look pal, I was born in Berwyn, Il...If you know Chicago, then you'll know where that is, and I grew up in Lansing Mi. I have stated this more than a few times in here. See, this is BS, liberals always feel, and try to use the argument that if you are not a lawyer you can't comment on the law, if you are not a teacher then you can't comment on education, if you are not a doctor then you can't comment on anything medical. This crap that you must be involved in that which you are commenting on predisposes that people are ignorant to anything outside their own little earthly bubble, and is a fallacy.
Given the links you posted, then you must really love the reforms Garry McCarthy has taken at tackling the areas where crime is the highest since it is the epitome of James Q. Wilson's 'Broken Windows Theory.' Results so far this year are good, though it is questionable if the gains will maintain for the remaining part of the year.
McCarthy so far is I believe doing a horribly difficult job, under immense pressure, and although not to the level of success that was seen in NYC he is stuck in the middle between Emmanuel's cuts, and rising lawlessness. The police chief has a higher approval than the wanna be tough guy Emmanuel.
"The mayor's approval rating on crime is holding steady from a year ago at 45 percent. But the number of voters who disapprove is rising — from 34 percent last May to 47 percent in the current survey. McCarthy, meanwhile, was viewed as doing well by nearly 6 in 10 voters."
Chicagoans split on Emanuel's handling of crime - Chicago Tribune
There has also been lengthy debates among sociologists about why Chicago did not see similar large drops in crimes like other major cities during the 1990s that stem from the demographics of city neighborhoods. I am sure you know all about those.
Yep, I've seen them...Bunch of pretentious egg heads sitting on panels trying to justify their existence, and spending of taxpayer dollars to do study after study all to come to conclusions that have little to no basis in reality, or practical application. Anyone with common sense knows the problems of hoods like Cicero, Berwyn, etc....
I do it find funny that you call Chicago a blight when you live in an economic backwater like South Carolina.
Well, I, over the course of my life have moved to different places. For 20 years I lived just north, up I95 from Baltimore, and moved south to get away from the wealth sucking, crime ridden, over priced liberal hell hole that Martin O'Malley was creating, and I love it....But you just go ahead and keep regarding those in the south as some sort of uneducated rubes, and any other insulting terms you have for them, but just make sure you stay out....We don't want you down here.