Submitted by Joseph Jankowski via Planet Free Will
Chicago is starting the year 2017 much like it did 2016: plagued with violence.
The number of shootings in the month of January nearly duplicated the tally from the start of last year, which was the bloodiest year in Chicago in more than two decades.
According to Chicago police, January ended with 51 murders, one more than last year. Per HeyJackAss!, here is how the daily murder totals trended over the past month:
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From ABC 7 Chicago:
Police recorded 51 murders across the city last month, one more than January 2016, the department said. Although, the department said in a release last year that 51 people were murdered in Chicago in January 2016
Three police districts on the city’s South and West sides – the Englewood, Harrison and Austin districts – accounted for about half of the city’s murders last month.
Police counted 234 shooting incidents – eight fewer than in January 2016 – with 299 victims, an increase of eight compared to the same period last year.
The Deering District, which was one of the city’s top three districts for murders in 2016, saw a 50 percent reduction in murders last month compared to January 2016, police said. The department said 59 of the city’s 77 neighborhoods either remained flat or saw a reduction in murders last month compared to last January.
Officers recovered more than 600 guns last month, an increase of more than 60 percent over January 2016, police said. The department also noted that gun arrests overall have more than doubled compared to January 2016.
At a meeting with members of the African American community on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said that if Chicago officials don’t take steps to curb the violence, “we’re going to solve the problem for them.”
“Because we’re going to have to do something… What’s happening in Chicago should not be happening in this country,” Trump said.
Trump called the violence in Chicago “totally out of control.”
Darrell Scott, an Ohio pastor who campaigned for Trump and who was present at the Wednesday meeting, said that he was talking to members of “top gangs” in Chicago who wanted to sit down and discuss how to lower the body count inside the city. Per CBS Chicago 2:
“They reached out to me, because they’re associating me with you. They respect you. They believe in what you’re doing, and they want to have a sit-down about lowering that body count. So in a couple weeks, I’m going into Chicago,” Scott said. “I said we’ve got to lower that body count. We don’t want to talk about anything else; get that body count down, and they agreed that the principals that can do it – these are guys straight from the streets, no politicians, straight street guys – but they’re going to commit that if they lower that body count, we’ll come in and we’ll do some social programs.”
“It’s a great idea,” Trump said about a possible meeting involving gang leaders and social programs.
On January 24, President Trump tweeted that if Chicago is unable to stop the “horrible carnage” going on, he would be willing to “send in the feds.”
Chicago saw a huge surge in violence in 2016: 762 murders, 3,550 shooting incidents, and 4,331 shooting victims, according to police.
Niggas killin’ niggas. What’s not to like? I just keep wondering where the black lives matter crowds are or do they only care about a black life when yt does the killin’?
Since the number of killings keeps increasing, I’d say there must be a shortage of guns & ammo in the windy shitty.
Criticize and attack the police enough when they try to stop it, and then prosecute them when they have to defend themselves against someone trying to kill them in the process, and this is what you get.
It’s not going to get better unless there is a major change somewhere along the line and I’m not seeing that happening anywhere yet.
Headline this morning says that Trump phoned the Mexican president and threatened to send troops if he does not get the “Bad Hombres” under control. There is no clarification as to who the bad hombres may be that Trump is referring to.
Seriously, are we going to send troops to Mexico? The article on Drudge also stated that Trump has made the same threat by phone to some other world leaders in the past couple of days. Why would we need to send US troops into Mexico at this time?
Fake News. Trump would have used twitter not a phone call.
“bad hombres” was used several times during the campaign in relation to Mexican drug cartels.
As for what Trump actually said in this very short and very out of context leak from a much larger transcript, that may never be known. The MSM has been known to selectively edit quotes, transcripts and such, and even outright lie, to push a view they want the public to adopt whether it is reality based or not.
Crush the cartels, Bea. We know who they are, we know where they are. They, like ISIS, aren’t going to last long under a President Trump. He’s a serious man. Mexico is going to be given a choice. Clean up the corruption, pretty much immediately, or become an extremely poor, walled off hellhole.
Nieto, current President of Mexico, has strong ties to the Drug Cartels.
They financed his campaign and put him in office and he returns the favor by protecting them from anything other than each other. As near as I can tell, he occasionally uses his military to take sides in some of their inter Cartel disputes.
Trump knows this, as would most Americans if we had a real Press that fully reported things instead of stays within a narrow political agenda that requires ignoring a lot that would work against it.
Star- Matt Drudge needs to get his shit straight. Drudge took down that TOP headline which never mentioned the phone call was light hearted and backtracked with a much different account of the situation. What a fuck up over at Drudge. Maroons!
Those tards made it sound like Trump was loading the troop carriers.
Well,, no one’s perfect.
Drudge gets it right most of the time, better than most news sources.
We need a gofundme page for better ammo and training. Lets get that wound/kill closer to 1-1.
My first impulse is not to care at all.
However, living in another city’s burb I’m experiencing my formerly white flight area be invaded rapidly by diversity. Unless we figure out how to wall them off and keep them out of our white flight suburbs we’re going to see it creep into burbs.
Cat,
“My first impulse is not to care at all. ”
Go research Dyncorp and disruption campaigns.
Someone is providing those guns intentionally.
It is best to “know.”