Rahm Emanuel Blames Chicago Crime Increase On Backlash Against Police Brutality

[damnedifIknow]

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) thinks the nationwide push for police accountability has made cops go "fetal," leading to a surge in crime.

“They don’t want to be a news story themselves, they don’t want their career ended early, and it’s having an impact,” Emanuel told reporters last week at a meeting convened by Attorney General Loretta Lynch in Washington, D.C. to address rising homicide rates in some cities.

Emanuel is just the latest in a series of public figures to blame the Black Lives Matter movement, directly or indirectly, for a growth in violent crime. Last month, former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly blamed it on the climate created by the Ferguson protests against police brutality. “I think you'll see, you know, the rise in murders in 30 cities, that's the so-called Ferguson effect where cops are less reluctant to engage in proactive policing."

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, also in September, claimed that law enforcement is under attack from all sides. "

But there is little evidence that this is in fact the case. For one thing, it's questionable whether murder rates are actually surging nationwide, let alone what might be driving that surge, as safety and justice researcher Bruce Frederick wrote in The Marshall Project:"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rahm-emanuel-crime-chicago-police-brutality_561d491fe4b050c6c4a30548

[Downwinder]

1. And here, i thought it was because of his school appointees.

[MisterP]

6. *slow applause*

[TlalocW]

2. We've seen this before

When Catholic priests stopped giving Mass because of the backlash against the church's pedophilia scandal.

Won't someone think of the poor victimizers?

TlalocW

[damnedifIknow]

4. Is he saying corruption is ok as long as the police are the ones doing it?

Police corruption in Chicago survives due to a lack of oversight and indifference from internal and external leadership, according to a new report published by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The report, “Crime, Corruption and Cover-ups in the Chicago Police Department,” examines the convictions of CPD officers since 1960.

“The real problem is that an embarrassingly large number of police officers violate citizens’ rights, engage in corruption, and commit crimes while escaping detection and avoiding discipline or prosecution for many years.”

According to the report, police corruption is enabled by a “blue code of silence” entrenched in department culture where officers avoid reporting crimes and misconduct by their colleagues.
- See more at: http://news.uic.edu/new-report-details-police-corruption-in-chicago#sthash.dYOzlhhW.dpuf

[Glassunion]

3. So to paraphrase his statements: "Proactive Policing = Police Brutality"

[damnedifIknow]

5. Exactly

That's my take on it.

[apnu]

7. He's a frigging idiot

We've had a violent crime problem going back at least 6 years. No freaking way BLM had anything to do with "turtling" police.

CPD has its head up its ass and is looking for someone to blame instead of pulling it out.