Stops are Still Down.....

.....so what is going up?

• Police stops in Chicago are down nearly 90 percent as the Chicago Police Department continues to struggle with bad morale and incessant violence.
  
  From the start of the year to last week, police made only 20,908 recorded investigative stops, [...], a Chicago Police Department spokesman. Over the same period last year, there were 157,346 recorded stops.
  
  Police also are seizing fewer guns: just 1,316 so far this year, while 1,413 were seized over the same period last year....
  
  At the same time, shootings across the city are up 80 percent, a DNAinfo Chicago analysis found.

Wait - stops are down 90% and shootings are up 80%? But there is no such thing as an "ACLU effect"? Pardon our laughter, but really?

What's this sort of thing called in mathematics? A direct correlation? Where both variables match on an upward trending slope?

And it's resulting in the worse crime totals in nearly two decades:

• As the first quarter of 2016 nears an end, violence in Chicago has reached levels unseen in years, putting the city on course to top 500 homicides for only the second time since 2008.
  
  As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, homicides totaled 135, a 71 percent jump over the 79 killings in the same year-earlier period, official Police Department statistics show. That represented the worst first quarter of a year since 136 homicides in 1999, according to the data.
  
  Shootings have jumped by comparable numbers as well. As of Wednesday, at least 727 people had been shot in Chicago so far this year, a 73 percent rise from 422 a year earlier, according to a Tribune analysis of department data.

Just remember, police are the problem. Always. Without fail.