Posted on 08/14/2018 5:19:14 AM PDT by simpson96
Violence in Chicago over the weekend was about normal for summer — at least 37 people shot — and for that city officials were relieved.
The toll was down by more than half from the previous weekend, the city’s most violent in more than two years with at least 74 people hit by gunfire. On Aug. 5, more people were shot in a single day since at least September 2011, when the Tribune began tracking every shooting in Chicago. At least 47 were hit by gunfire, 40 of them during a seven-hour period.
The bloodshed brought demands from community leaders for action, and the city responded by sending in more than 600 extra police this past weekend to neighborhoods hardest hit by the violence. Some of those officers monitored unauthorized street parties, the site of several mass shootings the previous weekend.
There were no mass shootings reported this past weekend. And the total number of people shot — one killed and at least 36 wounded — is not uncommon for summer weekends in Chicago when the weather draws more people into the streets
But police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was cautious in assessing his department's tactics.
"It's not that CPD did anything particularly different," he told reporters Monday. "We looked at large gatherings, of course, and paid attention to them. But crime is cyclical, you know, you never know when this stuff is going to pop out. So we do what we do every weekend to keep crime down in this city."
Officers had been asked to pay particular attention to large gatherings in five police districts: Ogden, Harrison and Austin on the West Side and Calumet and Gresham on the South Side. But more than half of this past weekend's shootings still occurred in four of those districts.
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There's your problem right there, Chief.
...after all, shootings dropped 50%!
So they are patting themselves on the back because only 37 people were shot. Another Democrat success story.
There is a reason the jackass is the symbol of the Democrats.
Wow! It’s like waking up on Christmas morning and seeing a bicycle under the tree.
thugs ran out of bullets from previous weekend.
If 40 people in my city were shot in a weekend, life would grind to a halt.
Every weekend? We would have the city police and county sheriffs, along with police helicopters out in force.
Maybe the herd is starting to get culled.
And here in my neighborhood, we have no police and no crime.
“When you see supporters of gun control railing about “gun violence,” they are, as a matter of objective fact, lying.
There is no such thing as “gun violence” anymore than there is “knife violence” or “stick violence” or “fist and foot violence.”
What we have is a subculture that has little to no concern for their fellow man. They are not good citizens. They live a predatory lifestyle and look upon the decent, law-abiding citizens that make up the majority of our population as prey to be attacked and exploited.
...this mindset in small, incredibly lawless enclaves in cities and towns around the nation. As hyper-violent as parts of Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis and other cities can be, when you start looking at block-by-block maps, the violence tends to be incredibly isolated.
Hey, Jackass!, a site dedicated to tracking the violence of Chicago, shows us that the majority of our nation’s on again/off again “murder capitol” isn’t that violent. Just five neighborhoods—Austin, Englewood, Garfield Park, Humbolt Park, and New City—account for most of the criminal homicides.”
May 9, 2016- by Bob Owens writer for ‘Bearing Arms’
C’mon. Even thugs can take a summer vacation.
Too hot to lift a heavy gun this week
My theory is the good shots die young. The better shots being thinned out would make a significant decline in the number of people being wounded each weekend.
All it took was 600 extra cops on the streets
Violence in Chicago over the weekend was about normal for summer — at least 37 people shot — and for that city officials were relieved.
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