Rahm - down on lame stream media (back at ya dude)

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When asked about perception of crime in Chicago, Emanuel was quick to note that he is most concerned with the opinions of his city’s residents about the safety of their communities. But the mayor still seems frustrated with the media, which he feels is focusing on individual incidents of crime without telling the whole story.
“When it comes to the perception, the job of the media is to kind of lift the fog,” he said


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/rahm-emanuel-chicago-crime-110300.html#ixzz3BPLUa6RA​

 

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Here is the whole article:

[h=1]Rahm Emanuel: Chicago not murder capital[/h]

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By JONATHAN TOPAZ | 8/25/14 5:03 AM EDT
Rahm Emanuel is pushing back against suggestions that violence in his city is out of control, touting new statistics that show violent crime is down in Chicago
“The narrative is: We’re the murder capital. Not close,” the Chicago mayor said during an interview with POLITICO.
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When asked about perception of crime in Chicago, Emanuel was quick to note that he is most concerned with the opinions of his city’s residents about the safety of their communities. But the mayor still seems frustrated with the media, which he feels is focusing on individual incidents of crime without telling the whole story.
“When it comes to the perception, the job of the media is to kind of lift the fog,” he said.
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Emanuel’s critics, though, would counter that these statistics don’t tell the full story, either, given that violent crime rates remain high in low-income and minority neighborhoods in a historically segregated city.
The mayor acknowledged that, despite the strides made in these neighborhoods, “there’s more work to be done.” When asked about July 4th weekend — when reportedly more than 80 people were shot and 14 were killed — Emanuel called it a “horrible weekend.”
While Emanuel said that while he doesn’t necessarily see anger about violent crime among Chicagoans, that doesn’t apply to him. “I get angry when you have a random shot go through a window hit an 11-year-old and kill her. … Who wouldn’t be angry?”
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“People in Chicago are looking for solutions, instead of seeing how much they can get angry,” he said.
The mayor is pointing to numbers that show that violent crime — in particular, homicides — are down in 2014. Chicago Police Department statistics show that homicides from the beginning of 2014 through the end of July are down 7 percent from that time period in 2013, and 20 percent from that period in 2010. Murder levels are at their lowest level since 1963, according to the report, leading Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy to say Chicago “is the safest it’s been in 50 years.”
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A July Pew study also showed that Chicago ranks 21st in murders per capita, according to FBI statistics, suggesting a common refrain of Chicago as the “murder capital of the U.S.” is false.
But the mayor and his police department have faced heavy criticism about crime in Chicago throughout much of his administration, and in 2012, the city had at least 500 homicides, the most in the U.S.
Emanuel’s administration has also faced allegations that it might have produced inaccurate crime statistics. Earlier this month, McCarthy and two Chicago aldermen engaged in a heated back-and-forth over a series of Chicago Magazine stories that accused the police department of under-reporting the number of homicides in the city.
Emanuel, who is facing a tough fight for reelection, has long faced trouble among community leaders at home, as POLITICO reported in June. A Chicago Tribune poll out earlier this month showed Emanuel’s job approval under water, and trailing a potential matchup against Chicago Teacher’s Union chief Karen Lewis, 43 percent to 39 percent. Wilson dubbed Emanuel “the murder mayor” last year.
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And national Republicans have continued to make jabs at Emanuel, a fierce supporter of gun control and an often combative former White House chief of staff and Democratic congressman who has long sparred with the GOP. Several Republicans have pointed to Chicago’s violent crime rates as evidence that strict gun restrictions don’t work.
In the interview, Emanuel said his administration has reduced crime rates with a comprehensive approach — an emphasis on community policing, strong penalties for gun violence, a more proactive and preventative approach, and policies for Chicago’s youth, like a larger summer jobs program and increased funding for after-school programs.




Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/rahm-emanuel-chicago-crime-110300.html#ixzz3BPM4HIQU​

 

[russ1945]

What a parallel between Obama and Rahm Emanuel. Does Emanuel play golf too. Just wondering. But both are losing the lame stream media lapdogs. Is that what Emanuel refers to as lifting the fog.

 

[russ1945]

FORE! Score? And seven trillion rounds ago, our forecaddies brought forth on this continent a new playground, conceived by Robert Trent Jones, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal when it comes to spending as much time on the links as possible — even when it seems totally inappropriate, like moments after making a solemn statement condemning the grisly murder of a 40-year-old American journalist beheaded by ISIL.

 

[russ1945]

Even Holder is having to toe the line - wow:

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BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
August 21, 2014 4:14 pm
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Justice Department to give Congress a list of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that the Obama administration is withholding under claims of executive privilege.
The Washington Post reports:

In a court proceeding Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson set an Oct. 1 deadline for producing the list to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The Justice Department says the documents should remain confidential, and President Obama has invoked executive privilege in an effort to protect them from public disclosure.
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In Operation Fast and Furious, federal agents intentionally allowed roughly 2,000 guns to illegally cross the border into Mexico and end up in the hands of violent drug cartels. The intent was to follow the weapons, but federal agents lost track of them. The guns have since turned up at crime scenes, including the 2010 murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Congressional Republicans subpoenaed thousands of documents from the Obama administration as part of their investigation into the scandal and eventually held U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for failing to turn all of them over.
“This administration has been so intent on hiding the contents of these documents that it allowed Attorney General Holder to be held in contempt instead of just turning them over to Congress,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) said in a statement. “The privilege log will bring us closer to finding out why the Justice Department hid behind false denials in the wake of reckless conduct that contributed to the violent deaths of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and countless Mexican citizens.”

 

[russ1945]

from the above article: (beginning to unravel - maybe)

The Justice Department says the documents should remain confidential, and President Obama has invoked executive privilege in an effort to protect them from public disclosure.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

from the above article: (beginning to unravel - maybe)

The Justice Department says the documents should remain confidential, and President Obama has invoked executive privilege in an effort to protect them from public disclosure.

Withholding information has been a priority for Obama his entire life.