Blue jean baby, LA lady .. everybody, on your toes!
Posted on 05/10/2017 8:09:14 AM PDT by Lorianne
Chicago police issued a bulletin Monday warning its officers about gangs armed with high-powered weapons, after three people were shot to death over the weekend - including two attending a memorial for the earlier victim.
Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the three people who were killed in the shootings Sunday were all members of the same street gang.
A shooting early in the day left one man dead, and the two others were killed and eight people were injured in a spray of more than two dozen shots from two guns while attending a makeshift memorial for him. Police suspect they were all shot by members of a rival street gang in the same neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side.
Video at source
(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...
Of course the only answer to this is to make it harder or impossible for law abiding people to get guns.
Blue jean baby, LA lady .. everybody, on your toes!
If it is obvious that street gangs are notoriously violent, then pass laws that make membership in those gangs a crime before they can get their hands on illegal guns.
I am not positive governments want to win a war on gangs. It’s too lucrative to keep on skirmishing.
A new squad of Untouchables for going after gangs perhaps?
WOW! That really is high-power if the bad guys can hit two offers from two miles away. Is AP thinking that this is a fifty cal instead of a 5.56mm?
this is more than New York and Los Angeles combined.
There were more than 4,300 shooting 'victims'.
5 years ago 'Chicago Crime Commission' estimated that there were *150,000 gang members* living in the metropolitan area, and by this point that number is certainly far higher......there are currently only 12,244 police officers in Chicago.... That means that the police are outnumbered by at least a 12 to 1 margin.
Feb 2017 Chicago Crime Map...
+1.
Chicago has a police dept?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.