Emanuel, Holder laud Chicago Public Schools Safety Record

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Mayor Rahm Emanuel brought in Attorney General Eric Holder Wednesday to help make the case that Chicago Public Schools students were safer during the recent academic year than they were before Emanuel made the controversial decision to close dozens of schools.

Emanuel's school policies are certain to take center stage during his upcoming re-election bid, given the resentment in many neighborhoods where schools were closed last year and the promise by the Chicago Teachers Union to target the mayor for defeat.

At a round-table style meeting at Chicago Police headquarters, Holder applauded the “really amazing reductions in the kinds of negative behaviors and negative outcomes” among Chicago elementary and high school students.

“I don’t think that this community, this mayor, the leaders from this community get enough credit for it,” said Holder, who served with Emanuel in President Barack Obama’s administration.

Emanuel's administration released statistics he said showed this school year was “the safest on record” —which means since the city began tracking violence involving students in 2007.

Chicago is so safe that Rahm Emanuel sends his children to private school 15 miles away from where they live. Eric Holder is really a political hack for attempting to sell Chicago as a safe place for children. We suppose it's like Eric Holder selling the world the Chicago Mob's plan for a casino in Rosement , Illinois.