Chicago Adult Entertainment: The Rhubarb Patch: Zorn and Byrne on how to stop the violence

It’s a tangle of cause and effect when you start trying to tease out of the statistics the root causes of crime. I’ll let you take the first crack at that while suggesting that, instead of asking where we’ve gone wrong, we should look at the numbers since 1993 and ask what we’re doing right.
From Dennis,
To Eric:
Nice to know that things are getting better, but I don’t think the mourners at slain police Officer Michael Bailey’s funeral on Friday would be convinced by a bar chart. The FBI index of five major crimes that you cite leaves out 191 nonindex crimes, including kidnappings, weapons violations, prostitution and drug offenses, and the poor and minority communities are getting hit the worst, as the Chicago Reporter described in 2008.

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