Via the Chicago Tribune
Chicago close to recording 600th homicide for only second time since 2003
Chicago is close to recording its 600th homicide for the year, only the second time the city will have reached the grim milestone since 2003, according to data kept by the Tribune.
After a weekend when 30 were people shot, five of them fatally, the number of homicides stands at 593 this year, according to the Tribune’s database.
That’s below the 681 homicides this time last year but substantially above other recent years.
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Last year saw gun violence at levels not recorded since the late 1990s. This year has not been as bad, but the last time the city hit 600 homicides was 2003, and that was for the entire year, according to statistics kept by the Chicago Police Department.
The Chicago Police Department’s count of homicides this year is 581 because, unlike the Tribune, it does not count homicides on expressways as well as fatal shootings by police officers and homicides considered justified.
Shootings have shown the same trend: This year trails last year but not other recent years. Nearly 3,200 people have been shot so far in 2017, down from the roughly 3,800 shot this time last year. That’s compared to 2,609 at this time in 2015, 2,208 in 2014, 1,923 in 2013 and 2.162 in 2012, according to Tribune data.
Among those shot over this past weekend was a 14-year-old boy, who was grazed in the right foot and leg on Saturday afternoon. He and a 22-year-old man were fired at from a black sedan in the 2200 block of South Oakley Avenue in the West Side’s Heart of Italy neighborhood.
In another double shooting late Saturday night, a 37-year-old woman was killed while attending a party to celebrate what would have been the birthday of a man killed in August as he left the Cook County criminal courthouse. A 25-year-old man was also shot and injured.
Ca’mon bros, I know you can do it!
How stupid do you have to be to attend a vigil for someone killed by gang violence? Might as well shoot yourself and cut out the middleman.
Hard to believe the level of violence in black neighborhoods if you can call them that.I used to do runs into Chicago and there were some parts of the city we were warned Never to go in or through.I stayed as fall away as I could.
I stay over the county line in DuPage County, nice and safe.
They could give them stuffed animals – the kind you win at the fair.
Or perhaps ‘hash marks’ on their sleeve.
Apparently those Black anti-police protests in Chicago have worked out well for the Blacks.
If somebody drugged the Chicago water supply, and the blacks all woke up a few days later in West Africa, I wonder how long it would take them to figure out what happened?
Where is the legislation demanding Chicago dwellers be given marksmanship training? The kill rate is unacceptable.