Posted on 08/17/2016 7:15:57 PM PDT by Lorianne
Nearly 100 people have been shot in Chicago in less than a week, pushing the number of shooting victims so far this year to more than 2,500 — about 800 more than this time last year, according to data kept by the Tribune.
Between last Friday afternoon and early Thursday, at least 99 people were shot in the city, 24 of them fatally. At least nine people were killed on Monday alone, the deadliest day in Chicago in 13 years, according to Tribune data. Among the wounded that day was a 10-year-old boy shot in the back as he played on his front porch in Lawndale. The number of shooting victims in Chicago stood at 2,514 Thursday morning. At this time last year, 1,725 people had been shot. The city has not seen this level of gun violence since the 1990s, a trend the Police Department has blamed on lax gun laws and feuding gang factions.
Over eight hours from Wednesday evening through early Thursday, three people were killed and at least 10 others were wounded in the city.
A 45-year-old man was killed and two others were wounded when someone walked up to their van in the Gresham neighborhood around 1:55 a.m. Thursday, yelled "Hey" and started shooting, police said.
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I saw an excellent expose about this on CNN, last night. No, wait...maybe it was NBC. Hmmmm.....no, it was on ABC. No, SeeBS. No...
NOT!!
Exactly. Did you see the article yesterday (I believe here) about how they have collected $100 million? Nice work if you can get it. And how the police chief in Milwaukee said the Revolutionary Communist Party from Chicago had come up to stir up things after the most recent shooting? These troublemakers have their fingerprints on a lot of things: from BLM to the Bernie movement to anti-Trump protests to even various actions by the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Last year there was a Marxist conference held at Northwestern University. Attending and in some cases presenting were teachers’ union officials and public school teachers. One presentation was about how CTU strikes and protests were steps toward a more general revolution.
Black lives don’t matter unless they’re shot by cops.
Thanx Didn’t see it, But I’m a big Sheriff Clarke fan
That is so true. My dad grew up at 22nd and Pulaski. He lived his last days at a nursing home in Wisconsin. When I was visiting him this spring, we started talking with one of his caregivers, a lovely young woman (can't remember her name now, but she was so kind and attentive and patient with my dad and the other patients, who had Alzheimer's).
She is black and said she was from Chicago. :) She and my dad had eaten at the same restaurants! He was so happy.
Anyway, she told us that she visits her parents, who still live on the South Side, hardworking people. She said that they have installed motion detectors all around their property, and that it is like a war zone outside.
She said, "I love my parents and visit them, but I go to see them and then get the heck out of there."
It is sad because her parents are basically prisoners in their own home. They won't be able to sell their house (they don't really want to, because they raised their children there, but still). It is so sad.
Guns are guilty....
Yes, they are truly stuck.
“Some really heartbreaking cases. Kids out playing. Innocent people just going about their lives. One man, married 18 years to the mother of his children, employed, who caught a stray bullet as he was sitting at his kitchen table paying bills. I feel for the good people who have to live with this every day just outside their homes. As far as I can tell, there is nothing that can be done about it. Too many are have no concept of civilized behavior. As Stalin said, “the death of one man is a tragedy; the death of millions is a statistic.” The names and faces of this week’s victims will be forgotten by all but their families and friends by the time next week’s statistics are out, if they are not forgotten already.”
I’m sure someone said words similar to yours about New York City before Giuliani became Mayor. Amazingly, he changed the stats to basically next to zero crimes - now how is that possible?
Hint: Chicago has been under Democrat control for God only knows how many years.
Hint 2: Giuliani is not a Democrat
Dreadful.
I seem to have missed all the news coverage about the BLM protests in Chicago after that dreadful week./s
Dems don’t care,that’s for sure.
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Do you think the police department is going to admit they are STANDING DOWN to avoid PC CRAP or putting their jobs on the line due to the back lash from BLM !!! So they just say lax gun laws are the problem Chicago has the most stringent guns laws in the nation!!! Police are going to continue to just let them shoot each other up WHY should they even try to protect these people the thugs are the ones being protected!!! It won’t be long before the communities rise up against the thugs themselves maybe THEN the police can return to the communities and protect the people WHO WANT their protection!!!
I wish I could be that hopeful. The last Republican mayor of Chicago was Big Bill Thompson, who left office in 1931 and was a piece of work by anyone’s standards. Chicago is essentially a one-party state. The Daley’s did a lot to make that happen. There is nothing that I can see that in any way resembles a conservative movement (least of all in the Republican Party), but I actually know a lot of people who could be considered socially conservative. They just don’t have anyone to vote for. Rahm had a fairly serious challenge last time, but it was from the Left. Rahm wound up sounding like the sensible one. I know that there was a movement by some black leaders to support Republican Bruce Rauner for governor. One of the leaders was a black minister and former state senator, James Meeks. So who knows — maybe any hope for Chicago might just come from working, law-abiding, church-going blacks, if they could somehow organize. (I’m just throwing stuff off the top of my head, now!) And if they got together with working, law-abiding, church-going Latinos and Whites, they might just have something. But they all have to escape the plantation first.
I already tried putting Sinatra’s My Kind of town, Chicago is, with a dubbed background of various shots and screams, but beyond running two you tube sights together I don’t know how to do it, If you can, just think how many hits you will get on it. Send me my share of the check when if you do.
“But they all have to escape the plantation first.”
You might consider the same advice yourself and get outa Dodge before it goes entirely to the status of Zimbabwe. I used to live on the south side (Oak Lawn), now I get free snow removal in Southwestern Florida.
For them, the only thing that could be possibly un-lax enough would be to be able to systematically search every household at will. The gun genie can’t be stuffed back into the American bottle. The only thing that can be done is to let reasonably honest people pack and have sane self/neighbor defense laws. If gang shooters did not dare show their faces lest they be shot back at, there would be far less of them.
We have plans to do that. We moved to an Indiana suburb three years ago— better than Chicago but not far enough away. We had to stay near Chicago for the short term for various reasons. Our son is in a good high school here. When he is finished in two years, we’re gone.
They need to pass some laws restricting gun possession.
Seven men shot and killed on Valentine’s Day, 1929. Became famous. Now seems so dated...
And it was a year ago that BLM really started warming up - BLM caused an increase in Chicago shootings...
These a-holes are like parrots. They are either too stupid, or too politically driven, to give the real reason (and we all know what the real reason is, although you can't say so out loud), so they give this answer over and over again.
The Brady Center to Prevent Violence rates Illinois a "B" overall for its gun laws, and their puppet site, CrimAdvisor, rates it number 10 in the top 10 for trafficking unfriendly states.
Can we make it a Federal felony for the police to lie to us like this? Or at least pass laws that make it a requirement for our police leaders to actually understand criminal behavior before they get to these leadership positions?
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