Last week we noted that Chicago’s police officers were taking their own lives in record numbers…the devastating consequence of having to work everyday in the “war zone” that is Chicago (see: “Chicago Is A War Zone”: Police Suicide Rate Surges To 60% Above The National Average).
Now, yet another brutal weekend of violence and an ambush of police officers sitting in an unmarked vehicle offers a small glimpse of what Chicago police officers have to face on a daily basis. The escalation in violence this weekend even prompted Chicago’s police department to issue a new bulletin warning officers of an ongoing gang war in which “gunmen are using weapons powerful enough to pierce bullet-proof vests” which shows an increasing tendency to “arm themselves with weapons most associated with soldiers in battle.” Per the Associated Press:
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Given the very real possibility that the gang war has not played itself out, the department has saturated the same area with officers and tactical teams, Guglielmi said. It also has issued a warning about gunmen with weapons powerful enough to pierce bullet-proof vests.
“Given the type of shootings and the incident last week (in which two offers suffered gunshot wounds about two miles away) we have put out an officer safety bulletin,” said Guglielmi.
Meanwhile, prosecutors said Monday that a reputed gang member sprayed a police van with more than two dozen rounds from an assault rifle after mistaking the vehicle and plainclothes officers inside for rival gang members.
Guglielmi said the incident in which two officers were shot while sitting in a car does not appear to be connected to the bloody gang feud that erupted Sunday. Combined, however, they are the latest examples of what they have seen as a greater willingness of arm themselves with weapons most associated with soldiers in battle.
The bulletin came after a generally violent weekend which claimed over 30 shooting victims and 5 homicides (stats per HeyJackAss!).
Chicago police issued a bulletin Monday warning its officers about gangs armed with high-powered weapons, after three people were shot to death over the weekend – including two attending a memorial for the earlier victim.
Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the three people who were killed in the shootings Sunday were all members of the same street gang.
A shooting early in the day left one man dead, and the two others were killed and eight people were injured in a spray of more than two dozen shots from two guns while attending a makeshift memorial for him. Police suspect they were all shot by members of a rival street gang in the same neighborhood on Chicago’s southwest side.
Meanwhile, the overall level of murders continues to track 2016’s violence perfectly.
Of course, according to Loretta Lynch’s analysis, those cops probably just had that one coming…after their decades of “racial discrimination.”
Gun violence is intercity black violence.Fuck Negroes.No one ever tells the truth about gun violence.
Fact is nobody cares if niggers kill niggers. Even Jesse Jackson and his Democrat white cucks don’t care as long as the dead niggers continue to vote Democrat.
Rifles being used in gang violence is on the rise in St. Louis as well. The prosecutors are not not pursuing gun charges against felons with firearms. There are adequate legitimate constitutional laws but they are not being enforced.
Gang members using armor piercing ammo on cops sitting in unmarked cars…….
Maybe, or a set up.
They are not using AP rounds, no need for it. Most, maybe all, of the commonly used police vests won’t stop a rifle bullet. The military body armor has solid ceramic or steel armor plates in addition to the kevlar or spectra soft armor – this isn’t what the police have for daily use, because it’s really heavy and uncomfortable.
It’s presumably just an attempt to use the event to whip up some nice hysteria, and pass more unconstitutional anti-firearm legislation – which will have no impact at all on the criminals.
Yep. It just means they’re using rifles. Gee, that’s not fair. And in a gun-controlled zone at that.
This is about more than gun control. It’s about militarized police and the Police State. It’s obvious where this goes. Police get tanks, we give up more liberty, and I lose my .22.
AC.
You and card have it right, I smell a rat. I shot a large black bear a few years ago with those rubber tipped hollow points and they went clean through behind the shoulders, fat and all and never expanded. I don’t think a 180 pound male in kelvar would be much different.
A couple years ago the County Mounties in the county north of mine brought out their former-USAF Airfield Security Truck (Dodge with 1/4″ steel armor) and the guy in the “standoff” put two holes in it with two shots of his .30-06 deer rifle.
Anybody remember “f=ma”?
When the media talks about “armor piercing” ammo it is the same as their hallucinations about “automatic weapons”, “assault weapons”, and “cop killer” bullets.
AC and MN Steel nailed it.
Sounds like it is time for Kurt Russell to come back with a sequel to Escape from New York called Escape from Chicago. The problem with Chicago however is that is not surrounded by water like Manhattan. You need to build a wall around it to keep the low-lifes in. Maybe Trump should start his wall around Chicago rather than down Mexico way. Just sayin’.
Well, if you shoot a T55 tank between the road wheels that support the track, a 50 cal normal non armor piercing bullet will punch right through that steel. On a tank.