Posted on 04/11/2020 5:30:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Illinois stay-at-home order, mandating that residents shelter in place amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, has virtually shut down the city of Chicago, but according to the city's police department, gun violence is still on the rise -- some 24% compared to the same time last year.
The scourge of the pandemic and violence on top of that is dealing a double blow to the city and in particular its black population, which has been hard-hit by the outbreak of the coronavirus, officials said. And the gun violence appears to be exacerbated in part by people gathering in public despite the stay-at-home order, taxing a police department already stretched thin responding to COVID-19 response calls and dispersing crowds.
Between Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, 14 people were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, and seven were killed by gunfire.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot denounced the violence in an impassioned address at the top of her coronavirus briefing on Wednesday and said that “these actions place additional and non-necessary burdens on our hospitals and intensive care units.”
Some 58% of deaths from COVID-19 in Illinois’ Cook County were black though the population is 23% black, and 72% of Chicago deaths were black patients though the city is 32% black.
Lightfoot noted that those same communities are the ones facing the brunt of the gun violence epidemic.
“Just this week we talked about the disproportionate burden that black Chicago is facing with infections and deaths related to COVID-19,” she said. “These same communities continue to be plagued by gun violence. I’m here to say enough, enough, enough. Our whole city focus must be on saving lives from all public health crises, whether it’s the pandemic or the epidemic of gun violence.”
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The good news is that much fewer are dying from gunshot wounds. If they test positive for Rona, that is probably listed as the cause of death.
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Nice hair, Lori. Did you get it cut recently?
Progressives/libs/idiot/media (they’re all the same) have an operating meme: “Inside every silver lining is a deep, dark, cloud.
We indeed need social isolation - a big wall isolating them from those of us who actually make things and make things work.
It is high time to take all guns away from criminals in Chicago.//sarc off//
Aliens now run Chicago?
I’m sure they will figure out how to inflate both statistics.
Difference between the two is corona will come and go.
Groooot!
Lifestyle: health & social.
Oh boo hoo.
So Chicago, how’s that black gay female mayor workin’ out?
She looks like Jessie Jackson.
I thought they all had to stay in their own house? I am sick of the B flood.
This is all political now and the left wants to keep this misery going, get mail in elections and voila, once they cheat a RAT in to replace Trump, the virus will be miraculously conquered.
Also, many are actively participating in gun violence, not just facing it.
https://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1_PDFsam_CompStat-Public-2020-Week-14.pdf
Chicago Police Department
Citywide Crime Statistics
That should work
LOL, that’s damning with faint praise!
Chi Africatinization intensifies in spite of the Covid crisis
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