Chicago [Black] violent crime has soared in 2016. What's the response?...A token black head cop.

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0402/Chicago-violent-crime-has-
soared-in-2016.-What-s-the-response

A video released Thursday captures the moment a man was gunned down in
Chicago’s South Side in the middle of live-streaming footage for his
Facebook account.

The violent attack was one of 10 separate shootings that took place in
Chicago that day, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune. The
shootings highlight an increasingly visible trend for Chicago – a rise in
violent crime to levels rarely seen in decades.

As of March 30, there were 135 homicides in Chicago during the first
quarter of the year – a 71 percent increase from the same period last year
when 79 homicides were reported, according to Chicago police data. The
homicide totals are the highest they have been since 1999. A Tribune
analysis showed shootings citywide were also up from last year 73 percent,
totally 727 reported.

To address the problem, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a controversial
decision this week: choosing Eddie Johnson, Chicago Police Department’s
chief of patrol, as the new interim superintendent.

To understand why that decision irked some, it's worth examining some of
the factors that may be contributing to the city's crime spike.

Chicago has been on the precipice of an education crisis. Roughly 27,000
city teachers have worked since July without a contract, The Christian
Science Monitor reported on Friday. Chicago public schools, the nation's
third largest school district, faces a $1.1 billion budget deficit and an
even larger multi-billion dollar debt from pensions.

Financial struggles at the state and city level could also be influencing
crime rates. Illinois has gone nearly a year without a state budget. And
Chicago residents have been battling an unemployment rate slowly ticking
upward, reaching 7.2 percent unemployment in February, according to the
Chicago Business Journal.

But Mayor Emanuel has mainly attributed the rising 2016 crime rate to a
newly paralyzed police force, which is where the new interim
superintendent Eddie Johnson comes into the picture.

Last fall, Emanuel told US Attorney General Loretta Lynch that the Chicago
police force had become “fetal” as a result of heightened public scrutiny,
according to the Washington Post. “... They don’t want to be a news story
themselves, they don’t want their career ended early, and it’s having an
impact,” he said.

The police force has been reeling from protests over the police shooting
of black teenager Laquan McDonald. Four months ago, Chicago the mayor
fired the city’s chief of police amid large-scale protests.

Mr. Johnson was handpicked by Emanuel as interim superintendent to combat
the paralysis and restore trust in police leadership in both officers and
the public.

Johnson is a 27-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, but wields
intimate knowledge of being on the receiving end of controversial police
practices. In an extended interview with the Tribune, Johnson revealed
that he had been racially profiled by police during his college years.

His selection to become the interim superintendent was unorthodox. He was
not one of the three proposed candidates for the position put forward by
the Chicago Police Board, nor did he apply for the position.

“The mayor is confident that Eddie Johnson is the right person at the
right time to fight crime, lift morale in the police department, and build
on the work that’s been done to restore trust and accountability in the
police department,” the mayor's office said in a statement.

Although crime rates have risen the first three months of this year,
Chicago police data also indicates to a silver lining. While gun seizures
and police stops were down and murder rates were up overall, March saw a
much lower increase than previous months in murders and gun arrests and
investigations have increased, according to the Post.



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