Gunshots and sirens filled the streets of Chicago over the weekend. Between Friday evening and Sunday night, 63 people were shot in separate incidents, ABC 7 reported. Ten were killed in the attacks, Chicago police said. In one two-and-a-half-hour stretch, 25 people were hit in five different shootings.
The grim news out of Chicago only added to the city’s image as one of the most troubled American metropolitan areas. The gunplay reignited debates online about how the stop to flashes of violence, and, as the smoke was clearing, one surprising voice jumped into the debate.
Taking a breather from his dizzying gig as President Trump’s attorney and cable news surrogate, Rudolph W. Giuliani addressed the shootings in a series of tweets. The former New York City mayor threw his support behind Garry McCarthy, the former Chicago Police superintendent who is currently running to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose name he spelled wrong. Although he also initially spelled McCarthy’s first name wrong — “Jerry” — Giuliani told his followers that McCarthy, who served as a New York Police Department official while Giuliani was in office and crime rapidly dropped in New York, was the one who could clean Chicago’s streets. Giuliani cited McCarthy’s work with CompStat, the data-driven tactic championed by the NYPD in the 90s.
Chicago murders are direct result of one party Democratic rule for decades. Policing genius Jerry McCarthy can do for Chicago what I did for NYC. He was one of the architects of Compstat. Slashed homicides over 70%. Tens of thousands of lives saved.
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) August 6, 2018
Give Garry McCarthy your support @Garry4Chicago. Tomorrow I will get you information to contribute. MAKE CHICAGO SAFE AGAIN! He can do a lot better than Mayor Emmanuel who is fiddling while Chicago burns.
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) August 6, 2018
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