Nothing funny about Rahm.

Anyone looking for some laughs from Rahm Emanuel and David Letterman were disappointed by the Mayor’s late night appearance.

Letterman is getting a little long in the tooth.

And so are a lot of his bits.

But having Rahm on was not even a stupid pet trick.

“Murders in Chicago,” asked Letterman?

Crime numbers are down claimed the lying Mayor.

Maybe in his neighborhood in Lakeview.

Greg Hinz:

Citywide, as the crack epidemic eased, the murder rate dropped by nearly half, to 17 per 100,000 residents in the latter period from 30 in the former, Mr. Hertz reports. But the differences varied dramatically: Almost every neighborhood north of Hyde Park (except for Austin) saw a decline, but many areas south and west of there suffered an even higher number of murders.

 

As a result, almost all of the North Side and much of the Northwest Side now have murder rates of 3.3 per 100,000 people — on par with Toronto, and better than New York, where rates have plummeted. But not in Austin and much of the South Side, where annual murder rates of 40 per 100,000 are not uncommon.

 

Change in Chicago’s homicide rate, early 90s to late 2000s. The areas in darkest green saw the greatest decline (as much as 80 percent); red means the murder rate increased.

That’s as stark as it gets, with all sorts of implications for the people who have to live in those areas.

 

“Any semblance of a normal curve has been annihilated,” Mr. Hertz writes. In the early ’90s, the most dangerous third of the city had about six times as many murders as the safest third, (51 per 100,000, compared with 9.4 per 100,000.) By the late 2000s, the most dangerous part of the city had nearly 15 times more homicides, 39 per 100,000 compared with 2.7.

 

Fifteen times!?!

Nope. Not funny.

Rahm tried to change the subject.

Not content with avoiding the issue of violence in our city and his role in making the conditions worse that give rise to it, the Mayor turned his attention to Syria.

“Stand tall,” he told Letterman and the audience.

I’m guessing most viewers had hit the off button of their remote by then.