Chicago shootings leave at least 58 people wounded and 9 dead this weekend

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The corrupt pro-criminal Mayor Lori Lightfoot refuses to deploy the National Guard, because that would require her to work with President Trump. Instead she sits back as her citizens get slaughtered. Shame on the MSM for not exposing Mayor Lightfoot.

Chicago shootings leave at least 58 people wounded and 9 dead this weekend

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By WGN, July 2020

At least 58 people have been wounded and nine killed in 40 shooting incidents across Chicago this weekend, police said, continuing a trend of increased shootings and murders in the city.

Seven teenagers and two boys were among those wounded in multiple shootings reported since Friday evening, police said.

A 10-year-old boy and 11-year-old boy, along with a 27-year-old man were injured during a drive-by shooting in Auburn Gresham Sunday evening.

The violence fits a trend seen across major US cities this year: a sharp rise in shootings and murders in the past few months, even as overall crime complaints have declined. These trends coincide with the end of pandemic-related shutdowns and the mass protests against police violence and racism.

As of July 12, Chicago police reported 385 murders this year, a 48 percent increase from at the same point in 2019, and 1,541 shootings, a 46 percent increase from the same point last year.

The increase has been particularly stark in the past month. There were 116 reported murders in the 28 days before July 12, about three times the murders in the same period in 2019.

Total crime complaints are down 9 percent compared to last year, led by steep declines in theft and criminal sexual assault incidents, according to Chicago police.

Compared to 2016, crime complaints have declined 23 percent, with 10 percent more murders so far this year but 11 percent fewer shooting incidents. Historically, this year’s murders and shootings are well below the heights of the 1990s, when crime peaked in US cities.

Crime experts believe this year’s increase in murders and shootings relates to the heightened distrust between police and the communities they serve, exemplified by Black Lives Matter protests across the country.

Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, said it’s highly likely that widespread social unrest in response to George Floyd’s death and other police violence is contributing to an increase in violent crime. When people don’t trust the police, he said, they’re more likely to take matters in their own hands.

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

I’m sure Lori’s “wife ” is very proud of her husband.
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ed
ed
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

YIIIIIIIIIIIIKES !!!!!!! A little early for Halloween, “ladies”…..

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

beetlejuice, and the city council is full of cross dressers, gays, and transvestites. All good at making rational decisons. hahahahah. The people failed to go out and vote, so live, or die with it

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

first carpet bombings, then carpet burns, and now carpet munching….comment image

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Could this be the next name to be cancelled?comment image

Kuffar
Kuffar
3 years ago

Slow weekend in Chi town… Only 67 shootings and 9 dead.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
3 years ago

Evidently Richard Rosenfeld, the criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is not much of a criminologist and selective in his evaluations. When communities such as black communities have a high disposition toward committing crime, a low regard for law and order, perceive that police have been rendered on the back foot (as is the case in Chicago and New York), general level of education is low, are thus easily influenced to consider the police violent despite them simply doing their job and think they can get away with criminal activity, they resort to violent crime. By now only an imbecile does not recognize that the death of George Floyd was a pretext for the left and anti-white racists of BLM to create chaos and resort to violence.

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