Late 2016 Update

At 25%, Chicago Mayor Emanuel's approval ratings Titanic as Chicago homicides increase. Chi-Town, the City of Chicago hit its 500th homicide of the year, a deadly milestone over the Labor Day weekend. ************************************************************************************************ With that tragic tally, the Windy City has now bypassed larger New York City and Los Angeles combined on a macabre path to reach a homicide level not seen since the 1990s, according to the Chicago Tribune. ************************************************************************************************ Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson stated outside police headquarters, words to the effect of," Don't blame the cops". ************************************************************************************************ "It's not a police issue, it's a society issue," "Super" Johnson stated after a Labor Day weekend during which 65 people were shot, 13 of them fatally. "Impoverished neighborhoods, people without hope do these kinds of things. You show me a man that doesn't have hope, I'll show you one that's willing to pick up a gun and do anything with it." ************************************************************************************************ The problem with this logic is that during the Great Depression of the 1930's, there were fewer homicides letting the hot air out of that claim. ************************************************************************************************ A police spokesman told NBC News, that of the 512 homicides in 2016 added up by the Chicago Tribune, 488 were under the jurisdiction of the Chicago Police Department. ************************************************************************************************ The others must have been under the county's jurisdiction ************************************************************************************************ On May 6, 2016, the murderer nicknamed "Grim Sleeper" Lonnie Franklin Junior, was convicted by a Los Angeles jury of the "grim sleeper" murders. Investigators eventually connected the crimes to Franklin by using a controversial but effective forensic technique called familial DNA. With this methodology, the Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) compared samples gathered at crime scenes to those of convicted criminals on a police database. ************************************************************************************************ The method linked the murder scene samples partially to the DNA of Lonnie Franklin’s son, who had been convicted of drug and firearms crimes in 2008. ************************************************************************************************ Lonnie Franklin, Snr was assigned police surveillance and eventually arrested after an undercover officer posing a waiter found incriminating pizza crust he had left at a restaurant, that revealed Franklin's DNA matched that found at the sites of the murders.