As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, homicides totaled 135, a 71 percent jump over the 79 killings in the same year-earlier period, official Police Department statistics show. That represented the worst first quarter of a year since 136 homicides in 1999, according to the data.
Shootings have jumped by comparable numbers as well. As of Wednesday, at least 727 people had been shot in Chicago so far this year, a 73 percent rise from 422 a year earlier, according to a Tribune analysis of department data.
Worse yet, that jump follows two consecutive years in which shootings rose by double digits, the analysis found. Homicides also rose by about 12.5 percent last year over 2014.
The murder rate is not high enough. It’s going to take too long to clear out that vipers nest at that rate.
They should have really strict gun control laws to stop that. /s
It would probably be best to break Chicago up into different cities. The South side could merge with...Gary, IN.
Same prescription for CA.
All the high crime cities have one common factor; Democrat administrations, some for generations.
Dead silence from the race hustlers all over the country right to the White House. Black lives matter? Not to them unless they can extort money from someone.
Chicago, the epicenter of Democratic party politics. Chicago, the city that works?
They are just reaping what they have sowed in a trashy city.
#blacklivesmatter
They should give out BLM Awards every month to the shooter with the highest score.
As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, homicides totaled 135,
Aren’t these really just Post Term Abortions?