Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls soaring Negro homicides ‘totally unacceptable’ - shootings are up also 100%
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday branded as “totally unacceptable” the bloodbath that has Chicago on pace to reach 600 homicides in 2016.
The mayor also acknowledged that the police shooting of Laquan McDonald and the sweeping federal civil rights investigation triggered by dash cam video of a white police officer pumping sixteen rounds into the body of a black teenager has resulted in an unfortunate decline in pro-active policing.
“Our officers — and I can tell you this first hand—are sensitive and aware of the last two months of the discussion,” Emanuel said of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald that triggered a sweeping federal civil rights investigation and the firing of Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy.
“We have to be able as a city to hold up those who are an example of the community policing we want to see in our Police Department while we hold accountable individuals who do not uphold the best standards and the highest standards.”
Emanuel can no longer deny that Chicago Police officers are being less aggressive in the continuing fallout from the police shooting of Laquan McDonald and the time-consuming, but recently revised forms that must be filled out by officers after they stop people.
That’s obvious by the 87-percent drop in the number of police stops this year while homicides and shootings are through the roof, to levels not seen since the 1990’s.
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