Posted on 12/04/2020 5:06:58 PM PST by simpson96
CHICAGO (WLS) -- New crime data released showed that Cook County is on track to break another homicide record.
More than 900 homicides were reported in 2020, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. The office has handled double the number of cases they had in 2019.
The Chicago Police Department said some crimes have decreased in 2020, but rates of violent crime including murder were very high.
CPD stats show there have been more than 700 murders in 2020 and nearly 4,000 shootings.
For West Sider Pedro Wade, claims that his West Garfield Park neighborhood is one of the most dangerous and violent in the city is no surprise to him.
"It's very dangerous," he said. "Any conflict at any moment, a small altercation can end with someone losing their life."
The 26-year-old's teenaged brother Clarence was gunned down as he walked home from school. No one has ever been arrested for the 2016 slaying.
The data shows Chicago is on track to break another homicide record - with most victims being young black men.
"There are real people behind these numbers and real communities who are struggling, families who are fragile," said Rev. Marshall Hatch, Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church.
Rev. Hatch's church is located in the neighborhood where Chicago police announced their recovery of more than 10,000 guns so far this year, mostly from West Side streets and CPD's Englewood District on the South Side. Still, homicides are up some 150% over last year.
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Just wait till spring when they clean the storm drains.
Have yet to hear of a gun committing a crime by itself.
LOL!
I’m sure that somehow it is Trump’s fault! The Dems are GREAT at projection!
Lmao... Uncanny.
How many of those 10k guns were so-called assault weapons?
I gotta axe a question....
They killin over racism?
LOL!
Some people fell down the ugly tree and hit every damn branch. This one, they took back to the top to prove it.
Black Lives don’t matter much when there’s a drug deal goin’ bad....
Tragic. But maybe this is how the D politicians get rid of their constituent complaints?
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
Lol!!! At first I didn’t get it, then I did.
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