Most of the time we can all feel righteously that we are misunderstood when a distant newspaper flies into—if not over—our hometown and in a day or two dispenses its conclusions. It has talked to the usual suspects, found what it came for, and turned us into whatever specimen an editor decided to find under the microscope.
The Times story follows a story cowritten by Davey just before Memorial Day, “Pleading for Peace in Chicago Amid Fears of a Bloody Summer.” It follows by a day the Times story, “Chicago Releases Videos of Police Shootings,” and by two and a half weeks the Times story, “Chicago’s Murder Problem”—which focused on our guns, gangs, and segregation.
