(CNN)You may be having a bad day, but it can't be worse than Rahm Emanuel's. The Chicago mayor finds himself at the center of a high-profile political crisis that threatens to paralyze his administration. At issue are the twin dilemmas of street violence and police brutality, which are common in many cities but have reached crisis levels in the Windy City. Shootings and murders have soared in recent years, and drug-dealing gangsters recently killed an innocent 9-year-old child named Tyshawn Lee in cold blood to send a message to a rival group, an act of savagery that police Superintendent Garry McCarthy called "probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I've witnessed in...
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