The reports I linked include everything the police department does, including picking up the phone, number of times the officers are sent out, number of times guns are pulled, discharged, number of times a suspect is pursued, subdued, handcuffed, etc.

Rather than believe and re-repeat lies from propaganda outlets (we have really good propaganda in the US and it uses social media to spread), check primary sources.

It takes less time than writing this comment did.

It's quite the claim to say that the police are hiding violent crime reports. It would be a massive indictment of local police departments.

What evidence do you have of this dereliction of duty?

Are there any robust alternate crime tracking methods? Drug metabolites in sewage? Shotspotter data? Insurance claims? Replacement car windows per capita? GPS data? There must be enough alternative metrics to make it possible to compare crime and enforcement.

Arrest stats are also at historic lows.

Criminal complaints are at historic lows.

Murder, which is kinda hard to “juke the stats”, is at historic lows.

Where is your evidence?

CPD has not stopped prosecuting anyone.

This is why the gold standard violent crime metric is homicides, which are consistently reported everywhere. Homicides in Chicago are sharply down (bears repeating that Chicago is nowhere near the top of the violent crime leaderboard in America --- it's just a lot bigger than people think it is).

Based on what?

For things like shoplifting, that's plausible. But I have a hard time believing that murder rates are down because people are just ignoring dead bodies.

Why would cops not report on crime?

Seems counter to the incentive structures of police departments.

Crime is down just based on the actual numbers (also anecdotally from someone who has spent the majority of their life in/around the city) and for most people the city is pretty safe right now. While there is violence this sort of pearl clutching historically hurts those exact communities you're talking about (and also is not how the people I've met from those communities described their experiences anyway).

That's a typical weekend in the US for a population the size of Chicago, nothing out of the ordinary for US fun culture.

The abhorrent level of crime is spread across the country, largely perpetuated by those who refuse to consider gun control. There were 16,576 gun deaths in the US in 2024, excluding suicides. 45 every day. About a third of those are children.

Chicago is close to 1% of the population of the US. Looking at three days, seeing a cluster of shootings, and not having the stats or basic business experience to understand the basic Possion distribution of events, is malpractice.

Whoever told you to be upset at Chicago, but not about the mass gun violence every day, tricked you. You got fooled.

https://youtu.be/jFTzwGv1sUg

https://youtu.be/t3hTQDfZrfk

https://youtu.be/BKGizzPJIqE

https://www.leadsafechicago.org/lead-service-line-replacemen...

> Replacing a lead service line with a new copper service means running the new line from the water main in the street all the way into the house. There are two ways that can be done. With open trench replacements, a trench is dug from the home through the parkway to install the new service and access the water main. Trenchless construction runs the new service to the main underground, causing less disturbance to the surrounding area. The type of procedure performed will depend on several factors specific to each replacement.

https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/water/general...

> in theory they claim to be working hard to better coordinate this between agencies.

This is true. For the private sector, it works pretty well. Road digging permits are posted on their webpage 6+ months in advance. If you see one on a section of street you planned to do work on, you are allowed to piggyback on the project and share the cost. If you don’t, you pay the entire cost. So there is huge incentive to coordinate. But city agencies? Not quite so incentivized.

They aren’t trenching through yards from the street to the house to replace water service lines, they’re digging a pit where the water main is and directional boring from the street to the house and installing a new service line in the borehole.

‘Horizontal directional drilling’ is the more technical term, directional boring is more of a trade name.

The Chicagoland area is constantly rebuilding the roads regardless of what the pipes are doing... when it's warm enough anyways.

I had my residential waste pipe lined with a fibreglass/resin sheath about a year ago. Inserting it was a process involving a lot of work on endoscopes and then the liner itself was adhered to the old pipe using a bladder filled with hot water. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cured-in-place_pipe

It was over CA$10k to get it done, but the cost of trenching that line could have been 3-4x the amount + an unacceptable risk to the foundation of the house from destabilizing the dirt around it.

I know epoxy coating is used in large hydro power dams, so I have to assume it's used for municipal sewer lines as well.

It's somewhat funny because most epoxy is just straight BPA. Yes, that BPA.

They are always pressurised during normal use. When they are depressurised because of a water main break or for maintenance (and they try to do this as little as possible), orders are given to flush the lines before drinking any of the water.