500 is Not the magic number

I love/miss the Chicago, but I do not miss certain things like Chicago "celebrating" its 500th homicide in 2008. What in the world are all those cops and all the police-blue-light-special cameras doing? I have an idea . . . but I'm not sure I really want to know. Sure, it's a down time in the economy and all, but wow - that is a lot of murder for one town. Maybe it really is becoming Gotham. They need the bat-man.