Chicago: 39 Shootings Over MLK Weekend:  CBS Chicago reports that over this year's Martin Luther King weekend 10 people were killed and 29 were wounded in shootings across the city.  Most of the murders occurred in the west Chicago neighborhoods of Austin and Lawndale.  All of the murder victims were males.  Last year there were 32 shootings over the MLK weekend in Chicago resulting in 5 murders. 

Little Data to Support DOJ Report Slamming Chicago PD:   A widely publicized Department of Justice report released last Friday has accused the Chicago Police Department of exhibiting a "pattern of practice" of exercising unconstitutional excessive force.  The DOJ announced that it would investigate the Chicago PD following the 2015 release of a dashcam video of black teenager Laquan McDonald being shot and killed by a white police officer.  The problem with the DOJ report, according to Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald, is that it cites no data to support its findings.  "The reader never learns how many incidents of allegedly unconstitutional behavior the Justice Department found, nor how those incidents compare with the universe of police-civilian contacts conducted by the Chicago Police Department."  The piece also notes that just two years ago, academics were praising the Department as a model for others to emulate.