Posted on 01/28/2016 11:00:37 AM PST by PROCON
CHICAGO - Forty-two people have been killed and 210 wounded so far in January, almost doubling last year's numbers.
It was the most violent January in years, according to DNAinfo Chicago data: In all, there were 199 shootings Jan. 1-25, while there were just 100 shootings over the same period last year. The data doesn't include the victims of violence from Tuesday into Wednesday, when three people were killed and another wounded.
Through early Tuesday, 42 people had been shot dead and 210 wounded, while last January saw 22 people dead and 98 wounded in shootings. On Monday alone, five people were shot and killed in just 11 hours.
The month of soaring shooting numbers follows a rise in gun violence throughout all of 2015. Last year saw 2,427 shootings and 468 homicides, the highest those numbers have been since 2012, when the city had 2,451 shootings and 506 homicides.
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Of course if Chicago had another hundred or so new gun control laws, these senseless shootings would never have happened.
don’t jump for joy ... the month ain’t over yet
Black lives matter (except in Chicago).
Why are these gangs not being slaughtered by home land security ( our new national police force) because they are terrorists? Why?
And that’s when the average temperature is about 22 Deg. F
Wait until the spring and summer.
It will look like Damascus.
Chicago must be run by those evil republicans who hate black people.....oh, wait!
It’s all the fault of us folks in Indiana.
Caliph Baraq said that’s where all his boys get the guns that shoot all his other boys.
I wise Black friend told me those who are worth a damn to the United States and are smart who grow up in the hood, try hard as hell to leave it and if they do they cut themselves off and move on in life, now I know why.
How about some statistics?
I’m surprised there are people still alive in that city.
Yeah, you all should be ashamed of yourselves tempting those poor yutes there to buy guns instead of playing midnight basketball!
all the stats you could ever want on link at #11
Only 42 killed out of over 250 shot, sounds like they need more range time in Chi-Town.
I don’t think all of them are intended to be kill shots.
Just boys tryin’ to avenge being “disrespected”
it’s a fun place to live
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