Wanted: Police

Lately, Chicago has been growing in violence, and people are putting the blame on Daley and the lack of police officials being hired. Daley claims that the growing violence does not have to do with not hiring more policemen. His evidence is that, "we have an economic crisis. . . " so the violence rate is up, and the jobs are down. He further states that cuts in Chicago's funds will be made since "We have to look at this in a four-year financial plan; we're not going to be irresponsible." Daley's statement that it is based off of economic crisis warrants that because of the economy issues, many people are being laid off and few people are being hired which leads to more desperate times and therefore more violence. He also doesnt want to be irresponsible so he and the government need to make every step carefully so they don't land in debt. Mayor Daley is basing his argument upon logic (logos) with the economic issues, as well as pathossince he doesnt want to mess up the economy or Chicago further. I think Mayor Daley makes a good argument putting the lack of police force on the economy, however, there's no hiding the fact that if there were more police, violence rates would most likely go down.