McBacktrack

Someone owes us an apology:

• Violent crime is down in "hotspots" where at least 200 cops working overtime conduct nightly patrols, and 200 more officers could soon hit the streets to target other problem areas of the city, Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Monday.
  
  “It’s a small percentage of the population and a super-heated group of individuals who are constantly engaging in gunfire on the streets,” McCarthy said Monday.
  
  Last month, the superintendent launched a “strategic saturation” program that sends the 200 overtime cops to 10 violent crime hotspots across the city each night.

So the number of cops on the street has a direct effect on crime? That isn't what he was saying for months and months and months, was it?  We fully expect him to take more credit for Tommy Skilling's snowstorm later today as keeping down crime, too.

Here's another interesting observation from McReinventingTheWheel:

• McCarthy said a three-year crime analysis revealed that these zones, which represent just 1.6 percent of Chicago’s landmass, account for 10 percent of its violent crime.

First of all, it's amazing that this took three years, seeing as how he's only been here under two years.

Second, only 1.6% of Chicago's landmass is responsible for 10% of the crime? Wouldn't it make more sense to pave over that 1.6%? It'd be cheaper than what he and Rahm are spending now.

And this:

• He said in the first nine weeks of 2013, officers seized 1,220 firearms, or about 20 guns a day.

So all of these illegal guns are taken from criminals within a pretty small geographical area, yes? So the guns in 97% or more of Chicago aren't a problem? In fact, gun ownership in the vast majority (the super-majority one could say) of Chicago isn't an issue, isn't a problem and isn't out committing robbery, murder or any mayhem at all?

Hmmmm.