Rahm lied? no way....

As it has been reported for a long, long time by Chicago blogger SCC, Rahm Emanuel has been playing a shell-game with CPD head count numbers, and the media is finally admitting what they know:

Despite promises of staffing increases, the Chicago Police Department has fewer beat officers in patrol districts across the city than before Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of city data has found.
Days after he was sworn into office last year, Emanuel announced the start of what he described as a major shift in how the police department assigns officers across the city. He promised to fulfill a campaign pledge by assigning 1,000 more cops to high-crime areas without reducing the police presence in other parts of the city.
“We cannot beat crime without more officers on the beat,” the mayor said then.
That was May 2011.
But, as of Oct. 15, a total of 6,638 rank-and-file officers were assigned to police beats citywide, down from 6,746 beat cops at the start of 2011, according to the data obtained by the Sun-Times.

This has been happening at the CPD for a few years now, going back to Richie Daley's tenure. The lame-stream media is so far behind in reporting this story I am amazed to be seeing this even now.