Posted on 04/25/2022 11:16:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In January, just days after Chicago closed the books on its deadliest year in a quarter-century, Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared 2022 a “make-or-break year” for tamping down surging violent crime. This weekend, however, proved to be the year’s first major stumbling block.
Seven people were killed, a man was critically wounded in a police-involved shooting and 36 others were shot across Chicago this weekend, marking the city’s most devastating toll so far this year as temperatures rose ahead of the typically violent summer months.
Just last week, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown touted encouraging drops in homicides and shootings as the department pushes to tamp down the surging violent crime that has become a serious political liability for Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
During a news conference last week, Supt. Brown detailed a new deployment strategy that focuses on 55 police beats that he said account for half the city’s violence. The new emphasis on “beat integrity” and community-based policing marked a major departure for Brown, who initially built up citywide teams when he was tapped by Lightfoot as top cop.
He said the new strategy relies on coordination with other city agencies and efforts to bolster social services and build up neighborhood block clubs.
“We really are, in my opinion, collaborating as we move into the warmer months to really continue our momentum in reducing crime,” he said.
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More and more gun control laws are needed.....because the ones we have aren’t working...../s
So, it’s officially Spring?
Any bets on which shooting is going to pushed and looked into by blm and the media?
Those lives don’t matter. /s
Burn Loot Murder sure is busy.
Blame warm weather. Blame guns. Blame anything and everything other than the specific demographic that is behind the killings.
Weak percentage. August will set a record this year, I can feel it...
First real warm weekend, their numbers will get bigger as it gets warmer.
Other than to use as a cudgel against white males, no lefty in the world cares when the blacks kill each other. No protests, no riots, no hand wringing, not even a sing-along. Hell, they didn’t even care when 800k Tutsis were chopped into pieces in a week by their Hutu race “brothers”.
The murders continue because leftists like it that way. Law enforcement minded people can only be targeted by the left so long as the killings continue. Without a steady stream of murders to blame on the whites they got nuthin’.
Laws enforced = reduced crime.
Laws ignored = murders/crime spree continues unabated.
Disgusting and monstrous yes, but not hard to understand.
I’m waiting for the extended July4 th holiday-. Triple numbers last year!
Milwaukee a close second - 20 shot, 3 killed including 13-year old.
I’m hoping for a 75 shot 15+ killed.
If you really want to achieve, you need to push through the plateaus...
Temps were in the 70s - it was like early summertime
There’s a direct correlation between weather / temperatures and violence in Chicago
44 Black Lives Splattered.
They don't matter in Chicago apparently.
Keep voting blue…
I still say they need more range time.
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