Crime Strategies Are Working!

At least, that's the message the Department and the Sun Times are selling:

• As paramedics lifted gunshot victim Deuntrell Murry into an ambulance, Chicago Police Cmdr. David McNaughton was already plotting a response to his shooting.
  
  Immediately after Murry was shot in the leg at 2:10 p.m. on May 30 in the 2700 block of West 64th, McNaughton learned his name from a district intelligence officer on the scene.
  
  Within 20 minutes, police headquarters created an intelligence report on Murry, which the commander pulled up on a computer in his office in the Chicago Lawn District on the Southwest Side. Murry’s mugshot was at the top of the report, which listed his associates, their gang ties, their criminal records and their rivals.
  

Then the article starts making tenuous connections about how things work:

• One of Murry’s associates was eventually arrested with a gun — possibly preventing a shooting, police said.

"possibly." The associate was a shorty - 14-years-old, and no info has been released as to whether he was out to shoot someone or just transporting a gun between locations.

The article glosses over what many view to be McCarthy's biggest misstep....:

• In putting the focus on district crime fighting, McCarthy eliminated citywide strike forces.

....which he is apparently reconstructing via Area foot patrols and massive overtime expenditures.

There are also a few tidbits that point to, but don't address, larger issues covered here and elsewhere:

• Murry, 20, is a felon who served prison time for a 2012 gun possession conviction, records show.
  
  In an interview, he said he was shot in the lower leg while walking to his mother’s home. He said he never saw the shooters’ faces.

Gee, a gun conviction just last year, and he's out catching bullets. Amazing, it's almost like there isn't any punishment for weapon offenses. And he's also maintaining the "no snitching" culture.

But what's the deal with this?

• McNaughton keeps track of every shooting and murder in his district in a thick binder on his desk.

Binder? Isn't all of this on computer? Aren't all the crime stats mapped? We're still using binders? How very...modern?