So! You’ve recovered more guns than any other police agency. I guess that’s why you have more murders in your not-so-lovely city.
Yep, that will stop the baddies from getting more, right? I think they have a long way to go to rid Chicago of guns. Its like ridding Chicago of drugs.
” We’ve recovered more than 6,500 guns ....”
You are so full of shit!
You didn’t recover anything. That would be like saying “we recovered 6,500 ounces of Gold....”
Something that has a value. It’s quantifiable, tangible and has a measurable effect of at least some accretive value to the community.
No, you fascist FK. You removed fascist”xxx” guns from the community but, what....what were the circumstances of your confiscations?
Did you remove a certain amount of thos guns from violent criminals?
What amount came through your lame “buyback” programs.
Finally, what amount came from honest citizens who possessed these weapons to protect themselves and loved.
Pound sand.
Asset.
Never go into business. Clearly you don’t understand words have real meaning and your co-opting words through your self serving obfuscations of words is seriously injurious to society.
Btw, if you were so interested in public safety why not recover radios and cell phones in the name of public safety?
Surely you can find some expert who can tell you can”with absolute certainty” how many lives that would save?
When I hear “Chicago” and “vault” in the same sentence, I immediately think of Jerry Rivers. lol
How many have been uh, destroyed, via removal to a officers personal collection?
Look at Chicago in the ‘30’s when Capone and the Mob were basically running the place, and I think little has changed other then the names of the bosses. The Chicago way in use now seem to be the same methods used by the mob being inflicted on the entire U.S.
Merry Christmas!
” and every year for I don’t know how long the Chicago Police Department has recovered more guns than any police department in the country,”
Not really sure thats something to brag about.
Interesting reading this thread. A lot of good statements and questions that are never asked by the “journalists.” Just one of these questions would stump that Mike Ditka lookalike.
Since guns kill, shouldn't there be 6,500 fewer murders in Chicago?
Can’t wait to get my Illinois concealed carry in 4 months. I’ll be walking down Michigan avenue with two 1911’s, smiling from ear to ear. F.U.C.P.D.!
Perhaps this is why they have so many shootings and killings. If they let everyone keep their guns the murder rate would go down.
I'll bet thousands of the "destroyed" guns have over the years ended up in hundreds or thousands of $h!tcago police officer personal stashes. It would be a bet I would surely win.
They should auction them off to Texas before they cut them up and pay some bills. Our Sheriff depts have auctions every year to raise money for equipment. I’m sure we would buy them for bulk prices to auction them off. I barely missed a Desert Eagle .44 mag for $600 year before last. I’m still sick. The only thing worse would be to know some asshat put it in a crusher.
Yes. He actually said that.
IIRC in Chicago less than %10 of homicides result in a arrest, conviction, and prison sentence. I think it may have even been less that %5.
If they did prosecute every crook who deserved it to the full extent of the law our prisons would be bursting at the seams with Sons of Obama and the Sons of Mexico. It would be RACIST! It would cost too much. Plus, having street thugs roaming about helps keep the middle-class in line.
how could this possibly be?? Guns are illegal and therefore not available in Chicago. Do they need to pass more laws restricting gun acquisition. They should stop this foolish gun conficastion and rely on new legislation to fix the problem.
They should instead show mugshots of all the criminals that the guns were confiscated from and any/all victims of violent crime associated with that criminal.
In fact, the Chicago PD should publish a giant coffee table book each year containing mugshots of all the violent criminals who use illegal firearms, their rap sheet, and if possible photos of their victims and the circumstances of the crime. I've suggested for years that gun control advocates publish such a book and let America see the faces of criminals and the poor unfortunate victims of their crime. Maybe they can even expand to stabbings.
Gosh, why don't they do that?
Oh, I know why: Doesn't fit their agenda. The average American would spend one minute flipping through that book and think either "OOh, I think I'm seeing a trend here..." or "Yep. Just as I suspected." and just possibly resolve right then and there to acquire their very own first gun.
Right, better just allow the press to photograph scary guns and put the blame on those. Good work Chicago PD, you louses.
So they didn’t know where one gun was since the 1970’s. So?
Here’s the rest of the story Chicago police Supt. Garry McCarthy didn’t tell the NBC reporter. The CPD has this huge stash of seized guns. Every Friday and Saturday night they sell off part of their stash back to the thugs and gang bangers to make some loot for themselves. Cycle: confiscate illegal gun, put into CPD “gun vault” until the heat is over, then sell gun back to bad guys. This is the essence of “good business” in Chicago.