Everyone knows that Chicago cops are some of the most racist police in the US. After all, Obama’s justice department, under Loretta Lynch, found that “Chicago police regularly engage in excessive force.” This, according to a report which the DOJ released in January, 2017. It was one of Obama’s final shots before Trump became president.

Here’s what the DOJ wrote:

“Blacks, Latinos, and whites make up approximately equal thirds of the population in Chicago, but the raw statistics show that CPD uses force almost 10 times more often against blacks than against whites.” 

Except that conclusion is wrong, according to a writer at Medium.com. David Shuey poured over national and Chicago area stats to come up with a very different narrative. Here’s his very interesting chart comparing Chicago cops with police nationwide:

Click to enlarge.

Well, now, isn’t that interesting? It appears that Chicago police use less force per arrest when compared to police nationally.

And guess what the body count is for people killed by police in Chicago last year? Eleven. Just eleven, with twelve people wounded. Some ‘excessive force’ there.

But wait, there’s more. If you’re a white or Hispanic perp in the US in general, you’re more likely to be killed by police during an arrest than a black perp. Even then, the numbers show that cops aren’t blowing away suspects willy-nilly, as the media would have you believe.

Click to enlarge.

So why is this important now?

It’s because Chicago is on the cusp of enacting the Chicago Police Department Consent Decree, which will further hamstring Chicago’s beleaguered police.

But Chicago needs to reform its racist police, or something.

Meanwhile, three weeks after Chicago’s Shoot-a-Rama where 75 people were shot over a weekend — 12 of them fatally — guess how many suspects the police have in custody?

One. Just one. And it doesn’t look too promising that police will arrest all the shooters, either, since the current homicide clearance rate is less than 15%.

So what about Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s plea for people in violent communities to “speak up. . . come together”? Because “the city will be with you”?

Kind of like Rahm himself is with folks in the community. Like he is here, posing with a “supporter” who’s making gang signs.

Now let’s face it — no matter how much Rahm wants people to ‘speak up,’ folks won’t snitch. They’d kind of like to stay alive. They don’t want to be looking down the barrel of a Glock .40 while some gang-banger points it in their face.

In the meantime, Chicago media call for Chicago cops to be a “trustworthy community presence.” Because, as they write:

“. . . many minority residents fear the police because of the department’s troubling record of tolerating excess force and abusive behavior.”

So what else is the media calling for? The Consent Decree, which among other ‘reforms’ (read: hog-tying police) hands oversight to a federal judge.

Even though Chicago cops are less trigger-happy than most other police — who really aren’t that eager to draw weapons, either.

Meanwhile, while the nation was aghast at a shooting at a gaming tournament in Florida, where two people died, it was just another weekend in Chicago. On Friday night, three people were shot to death, and 11 were wounded. Never mind, though. The shiny object, you see, was in Florida.

But, according to the media narrative, let’s blame the racist, trigger-happy Chicago PD for the city’s woes. Except they’re not so racist after all.