Chicago: 12 hours, 1 neighborhood, 7 murders

[Dill]

(04-01-2017, 05:58 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Now, the courts don't look at effectiveness, but policy analysts do. Considering the 10-15% charge rate (I forget what the conviction rate was) and the lack of any correlation between the implementation of the program and a drop in violent crime, a surface level analysis would tell me that the policy is ineffective. If it is ineffective and subject to abuses that could result in constitutionally questionable application, I'd consider the policy to be more of a liability than a benefit.

You are assuming the policy was designed primarily or only to reduce crime.

Can anyone suss out any correlation between implementation of the policy and positive voter response?

Until those numbers are in, I would not say the policy was either "ineffective" or a liability from Bloomberg's standpoint, or from the standpoint of others who might run for office on a law and order platform.