Placebo
When a rash of gun murders takes place, it makes sense for the police to do one of two things: renew tactics that have been effective in the past at curbing homicides, or embrace ideas that have not been tried before. But those options don’t appeal to Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis. What he proposes instead is a crackdown on assault weapons.
Most likely, Chicago’s murders are committed with handguns (which are banned there). And not weapons that look like assault weapons. A rather pointless gesture and as I like to say:
gun control: what politicians do instead of something.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:47 am
It’s not even ,most likely’:
As of March 31, there had been 87 homicides in the city. When I asked the Chicago Police Department how many of the murders are known to have involved assault rifles, the answer came back: One.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
(taken from Sir Robert Peel’s “Nine Principles of Policing” – see Kim DuToit’s site for more info – or Google)
#9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder,
not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.