Andy Boyle
Director of Product Engineering
Andy Boyle is the former Director of Product Engineering, and led editorial software development, digital graphics and data-oriented storytelling.
The drop in shootings has been greatest in 15 of the city’s most violent community areas. Those neighborhoods still accounted for 64% of the city’s homicides and 60% of the people shot.
The scathing memo tells the department to stop its newly announced program focusing on a quota of 1.5 million positive community interactions in 2022
The state agency is warning that police Supt. David Brown’s goal for bolstering community engagement amounts to ‘a quota system’ that’s ‘rife with significant downsides.’
The police department said carjackings are down 11% from last year but still numbered 306 in January and February. Shootings are also down slightly from this time last year, which was the most violent in decades.
Police Supt. David Brown said carjackings are down 20% the first two months of the year, but they are still more than three times higher than before the pandemic began.
El Sindicato de Maestros de Chicago criticó la afirmación de la alcaldesa, diciendo: ‘Todos los niños de nuestras Escuelas Públicas de Chicago merecen una disculpa de la alcaldesa hoy’.
The Chicago Teachers Union ripped the mayor’s claim, saying, ‘Every child in our public schools in Chicago deserves an apology from the mayor today.’
‘If you are a Chicagoan, living here or doing business here, even just visiting as a tourist here, your safety is compromised and in jeopardy,’ says Keith Thornton, a Chicago emergency dispatcher.
En 2021, el centro ha sido el lugar donde se han producido más tiroteos en años. El aumento refleja una ola de delitos violentos en toda la ciudad y amenaza la recuperación del centro.