Posted on 11/20/2020 5:49:52 PM PST by simpson96
Chicago is on pace to pass 700 homicides this year as the city faces a 50% increase in gun violence from a year ago.
Since 1998, it’s a milestone reached only one other time, in 2016.
So far, Chicago has more murders this year than during the same period in 2016 — Chicago’s most violent year in recent memory.
As of Wednesday evening, 693 deaths in Chicago have been ruled homicides, according to a Sun-Times analysis of Cook County medical examiner’s office data. The city had 680 murders by this time in 2016, according to Chicago Police Department statistics.
In April, CPD Supt. David Brown challenged his department to keep the annual murder total under 300 — a number the city hasn’t been under in 60 years. He likened the challenge to President John F. Kennedy’s goal to put a man on the moon.
At the time, Brown said he wanted Chicago to “become the safest big city in the country, bar none. Others might be afraid to speak of such lofty goals for fear of falling short.”
But even the mid-year homicide total in 2020 outpaces the totals in years past. The Sun-Times counted 503 homicides in all of 2019; 550 in 2018; and 664 in 2017.
Chicago logged 781 homicides in all of 2016.
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Old BeetleJuice is ecstatic with that one!!
That means it stays in the good graces of its Big Daddy in hell. Big Daddy’s death quotas are tough to maintain, but old BeetleJuice is doing one helluva job...no pun intended.
Feral descendants of Mrs O’Leary cow again.
Gads what a bizarre gnome!
Considering that what brought it down last time was aggressive policing, I think we’re looking at the new normal for at least a generation.
According to heyjackass, six shooting deaths involved the police and ten were self-defense. The rest were no doubt from marauding white supremacists blazing away in the ‘hoods.
It’s a start!😎
Remember, Black Lives Matter (except in Chicago)
If they could get it up to 700,000 leftwads murdered by other leftwads, we’d have something to work with.
How could this not work? I mean a “CHALLENGE” from CPD Supt. David Brown was not sufficient ?
#1. Lori Lightfoot, like Obama, said “YES WE DID and PROUD OF IT”.
Is there one sane, not weirdo Democrat mayor of a major city in the US? Can’t think of any.
DeBlasio - commie psychopath
Lightfoot - lesbian egomaniac Marxist
Seattle - any mayor in the last 10 years
Portland - Tim Wheeler - petty Marxist dictator
Philadelphia - the little dancing Leprechaun coward
DC - Bowwow Browser - the coward of the district
Baltimore - which ever mayor who is not in jail
Houston - need I say anything here?
Oakland - any commie in the past 30 years (Dellums, Quan, etc
San Fran - Huh???
LA - Garcetti the stupid
Minnneapolis -
Memphis
Cleveland
Nearly 40 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Lightfoot’s Chicago
Per Heyjackass.com, 5 dead.
Exclusive: Police district staffing plunges as citywide units grow — with questionable results
If you're familiar with Chicago politics, be sure to read to the last paragraph.
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