Posted on 05/07/2018 2:27:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The last seven days in Chicago have been the most violent week of the year, with just three police districts on the West Side bearing the brunt of the recent violence, according to data kept by the Tribune.
At least 85 people were shot between Monday, April 30, and this past Sunday, including a 4-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy, a 15-year-old on a CTA bus, a young mother, several other young teens, a federal agent and two relatives of a gunshot victim waiting outside a hospital.
Of those shot, at least nine died.
The city had been averaging about 42 shootings each week this year, according to Tribune data. With last week’s shootings, the average rises to almost 45 people a week. The least violent period was the week of Feb. 5, when 16 people were shot in Chicago.
Nearly half of those shot in the last week were hit by gunfire in three police districts that have long been troubled by violence: Harrison, Ogden and Austin.
The recent burst of violence brings the number of people shot in the city this year to at least 804, according to data kept by the Tribune. That's below the previous two years, when violence hit record levels. Last year at this time, 1,087 people had been shot. In 2016, the number was 1,199. But this year's numbers are still substantially higher than other recent years.
Homicides have followed the same pattern, with at least 161 this year. That compares to 198 this time last year, and 205 in 2016, according to Tribune data.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
If only all law-abiding, assault rifle-owning citizens turned in their weapons, none of this would happen. Some Hogg says so.
GloBULL Warming caused it...
Look at the biceps on that creature with the head scarf. She could feed a small African village for 30 days.
It's three neighborhoods that are well known to have these kinds of violence statistics. They're primarily on Chicago's west/near west sides.
It's not the entire city.
BTW: I work in Chicago and I happen to give a damn'. I'd like to make it home safely every night back to the suburbs without some butthead like you broad-brushing everyone who lives in/around the city.
As Chicagoan who live there for 20 years, I welcome the news. The more dead the better. This is the most effective crime reduction. Lets them kill each other off. Many people do not know that almost all victims of such homicides are criminals as well. No other way to reduce crime rate in Chicago. The best we can do is to contain these homicides in certain neighborhoods.
Never going to be accurate like that.........
You are for a lost cause
Chicago is a cancer on America
You welcome innocent kids < 10 years old getting killed? Really? Have you seen who many of the victims are of these stupid gang banger attempted killings? Kids, who have absolutely nothing to do with the idiots spraying their neighborhoods with bullets.
If it were really only the gang bangers killing each other, I'd be like you and not give a damn'. As long as they're only killing each other, good riddance I'd say. Unfortunately that's not what's happening.
You’re an ignorant jackass. I’ll stop there.
Posters like you are a cancer on Free Republic.
Unless a victim was shot by a cop, we won’t hear a peep out of Black Lives Matter.
Good thing Chicago has such tough gun laws.
...and the idiots who “live” there keep voting-in the same LIB criminal trash. Hahaha.
At least there’s a significant downward trend for these shootings. You gotta start somewhere.
Kudos for Chicago.
Summer is heating up.
Rahms “crisis” not going to waste.
Indeed.
This out of control violence is completely ignored by the media. This carnage dwarfs that of the school shooting but gets zero coverage.
I regularly listen to the scanner at night....pity for the poor blue having to go into those areas. Every 15 minutes it’’s “shots fired” .
It’s a multi generational way of life. Bad Bad Leroy Brown.
I blame the funny looking Police Hats.
They obviously drive the Natives crazy.
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