Journal cop piece dissected by Ted Rutland
The Journal ran a piece Tuesday about the number of police squads available in each territory by night and alleging that “hot” districts are “left to their own devices.”
It takes a Ted Rutland to see through the smoke and mirrors: “To answer the question in the title, you’d have to compare police patrols to 911 calls in each sector (which is easy to do). They instead compare patrols to an imagined map of gun crime […] Police patrols respond to 911 calls and around 0.04% of calls involve guns. The so-called investigation, then, just whips up fear unnecessarily, while serving the agenda of whoever leaked the data (the brotherhood was most likely involved).”
DavidH 13:43 on 2022-09-14 Permalink
Neither the map nor the article make any mentions of gun crime. They cite population and reported crimes instead. Those are actually pretty good indicators.
They leave out infrastructures like the airport and hazardous industries which beef up the police ratios in some sectors. That creates a discrepancy between PDQ05 (airport) and 45 (RDP) for example. Just enough to generate the outrage they seek.
Ruthland is right about the timing. He doesn’t seem to have read or looked at the map though.