So what’s the real story here? If prosecutors advanced a solid case this far, why not forge ahead and declare that there’s a price to pay for wasting police resources in a city with so much gun violence? From Tuesday’s Tribune: “A young mother was shot and killed, her husband was critically wounded and their 1-year-old baby took a bullet to the knee in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.” How did Jussie Smollett’s partial redeployment of Chicago’s detective force contribute to solving the host of such crimes that occur here relentlessly?