“Chicago, Chicago, That Toddling Town”

[longknife]

Remember that great Frank Sinatra tune lauding the Windy City?

Well, it's not toddling any more and is more of a Bloody City than windy.

Chicago gripped by rash of deadly weekend gun violence — again

Four dead, more than 30 injured as governor reiterates appeal for tougher gun laws

Read more @ Chicago gripped by rash of deadly weekend gun violence ? again | Al Jazeera America

 

[waltky]

Yeah, blacks still think it's open season on people in Chicago...

40 People Shot in Chicago Over Holiday Weekend
December 26, 2016 - Police in the Midwestern U.S. city of Chicago say more than 40 people were shot over the Christmas weekend, with 12 of the victims dying.

The news comes as Chicago, the nation's third-largest city, faces a wave of violence, with homicides increasing 40 percent since last year. The holiday violence includes a family Christmas party where two people were killed and several others wounded. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters Monday that 90 percent of those killed this weekend had gang affiliations, criminal histories, or were pre-identified by officials as being a potential offender or victim of gun violence.

Chicago police display some of the thousands of illegal firearms that were confiscated in Chicago​

Johnson argued that politicians need to strengthen gun sentencing laws. "This unacceptable level of violence demonstrates the clear and present need for policymakers to convene in January and give Chicago the gun sentencing tools against repeat gun offenders so that we can begin to change this narrative. "If you pick up a gun and shoot somebody you should go to prison, period, that's the end of that story. ... Some people want to give them a pass for it. I don't," he added.

Johnson said officers also seized 45 guns from city streets this holiday weekend, which he said is higher than a typical weekend. More than 700 homicides have been reported in Chicago this year. That is up from less than 500 homicides last year. Police say most of the killings have occurred in Chicago's southern and western neighborhoods. Although crime rates in Chicago and the rest of the United States remain well below those between 1990 and 1995, homicides began to surge in numerous large cities last year.

40 People Shot in Chicago Over Holiday Weekend

 

[waltky]

Christmas in Chicago...

Nearly 50 People Shot in Chicago Over Holiday
December 27, 2016 — Five people were wounded in shootings in Chicago early Monday, bringing to almost 50 the number of people shot in the city since Christmas weekend began Friday afternoon.

Much of the violence happened in areas “with historical gang conflicts on the south and west side of Chicago,” said Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department. He also referred to the department’s “strategic subject list,” which is generated daily from a computerized algorithm and assigns a score from 1 to 500 based on such factors as a person’s arrests and the activities of his or her associates. Those people with a score in the upper 200s or higher are considered in danger of being shot or of shooting someone else. “Ninety percent of those fatally wounded had gang affiliations, criminal histories and were pre-identified by the department’s strategic subject algorithm as being a potential suspect or victim of gun violence,” Guglielmi said.

A woman talks with members of the Chicago Police Department at the scene where at least six people were shot, one fatally, on the 8600 block of South Maryland Avenue on Dec. 25.​

The shootings Monday included a man shot in each leg in the North Lawndale neighborhood, a man shot in the hand in Englewood and two people in the Park Manor neighborhood who were shot, one in the head, authorities said. Monday morning’s shootings came after two brothers were killed and five other people were wounded while shooting dice at a family Christmas party in East Chatham late Sunday. That shooting, and the others Sunday, added to the tolls this year in Chicago, where more than 700 homicides have been recorded and more than 4,000 people have been shot—a level of violence not seen in Chicago since the late 1990s. Last year, 488 people were killed in Chicago.

Nearly 50 People Shot in Chicago Over Holiday | Officer.com

 

[waltky]

Black community backlash provokes police enforcement slowdown...

1 of Chicago's bloodiest years ends with 762 homicides
January 1, 2017 — One of the most violent years in Chicago history ended with a sobering tally: 762 homicides, the most in two decades in the city and more than New York and Los Angeles combined.

The nation's third largest city also saw 1,100 more shooting incidents last year than it did in 2015, according to data released Sunday by the Chicago Police Department. The statistics underline a story of bloodshed that has put Chicago at the center of a national dialogue about gun violence. The numbers are staggering, even for those who followed the steady news accounts of weekends ending with dozens of shootings and monthly death tolls that hadn't been seen in years. The increase in homicides compared to 2015, when 485 were reported, is the largest spike in 60 years. Police and city officials have lamented the flood of illegal guns into the city, and the crime statistics appeared to support their claims: Police recovered 8,300 illegal guns in 2016, a 20 percent increase from the previous year.

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said during a news conference Sunday that Chicago is among many U.S. cities that have seek a spike in violence, including in attacks on police. He said anger at police, including in the wake of video released that showed a white Chicago officer shooting a black teenager 16 times, has left criminals "emboldened" to violent crimes. He also said it's becoming clearer to criminals that they have little to fear from the criminal justice system. "In Chicago, we just don't have a deterrent to pick up a gun," he said. "Any time a guy stealing a loaf of bread spends more time pre-trial in jail than a gun offender, something is wrong."

Johnson, who has for months complained about Illinois' lax gun laws, said he thinks more and more gang members are arming themselves because the price for being caught is small compared to other large cities. He said gang members he has spoken to consider the court system "a joke." The bulk of the deaths and shooting incidents, which jumped from 2,426 in 2015 to 3,550 last year, occurred in only five of the city's 22 police districts on the city's South and West sides, all poor and predominantly black areas where gangs are most active. Police said the shootings in those areas generally wasn't random, with more than 80 percent of the victims having previously been identified by police as more susceptible because of their gang ties or past arrests.

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[yiostheoy]

CBS' 60 Minutes went into this earlier tonight as well.

Gang warfare and drug dealing has taken over Chicago.

If you must go there stay inside your hotel.

Don't go out on the streets.

The streets there are flowing with blood.

Crime there is worse than in NYC and L.A. combined.

 

[Metzor]

Rahm should build a nice cooncrete wall about 20 feet tall and 5 feet thick.

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[Political Junky]

Rahm should build a nice cooncrete wall about 20 feet tall and 5 feet thick.

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Walls, the Alt-Right answer to everything.

 

[Metzor]

Murder, the left's answer to everything.

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[dannyboys]

Rahm should build a nice cooncrete wall about 20 feet tall and 5 feet thick.

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Walls, the Alt-Right answer to everything.

What do you call the 'thing' that is surrounding Hillary's mansion?
Why does she have that 'thing'? What possible purpose could it be serving?
Fucking MORON!!!!!!

 

[indago]

From 60 Minutes

Crisis In Chicago

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Chicago is the left's model for the country.

 

[MACAULAY]

I hope the Republican Caucas in Congress...which for 8 years has been filled with more Pussies than 20 Bunny Ranches...all but a handful scared shit-less of a Black Socialist President and his Pravda-like Media...I hope they will be ready to sack up when Chicago tries to hit up the Federal Government for a bailout of their corrupt Socialists practices...ones which have got them in the awful mess that we now see before us.

 

[waltky]

Drug scene is pushing up shootings toll nationwide...

35 Shot, 8 Fatally, in Chicago Over Weekend
Jun 5, 2017 — Eight people were shot dead and 27 other people were wounded in attacks across Chicago over the weekend, including two shootings involving police officers from a summer mobile detail that happened 24 hours apart.

In the first police-involved shooting, officers fatally shot Corsean Lewis, 17, about 11:10 p.m. Friday in the Washington Park neighborhood, according to officials. Officers with the summer mobile unit had responded to a call of a person with a gun and were approaching a group of people when someone fired a shot at the officers, hitting the front bumper of the unmarked police car, according to officials. Officers returned fire, striking the teen multiple times, according to police. Officers found a gun at the scene, and they believe the teen was the one who had fired the shot at them, according to officials.

About 24 hours later, officers working a similar summer mobile unit farther south were involved in another shooting. A Chicago police officer and another man were both wounded. In that incident, a man ran from officers who had seen him drinking outside. He went into a nearby apartment building, where a struggle over a gun ensued between an officer and the man. An officer was shot in the hand, and the officer’s partner shot at the man, critically wounding him, police said. In addition to the police-involved shootings, two men were killed and six others were wounded within about an hour early Sunday. Among those killed was 41-year-old Edward Mason, who was shot in the head and chest just before 3:15 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police work the scene where a man was killed in an officer-involved shooting near the intersection of West 59th Street and South State Street in the Washington Park neighborhood on Friday, June 2, 2017 in Chicago​

Sunday afternoon, Shantae Nevith, 22, was fatally shot in an apparent murder-suicide about 12:30 p.m. in the Logan Square neighborhood, police said. The 23-year-old man, who police believe shot Nevith, was found dead hours later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. Despite the violent weekend, the number of people killed and shot in Chicago is down compared with last year, when gun violence rose to levels not seen in two decades.

The city has recorded 259 homicides this year compared with 271 this time last year, according to data compiled by the Chicago Tribune. The number of shooting victims has decreased by about 9 percent. As of Monday, 1,434 people had been shot compared with 1,588 people this time last year, according to Tribune data.

35 Shot, 8 Fatally, in Chicago Over Weekend | Officer.com

 

[Silent Warrior]

governor reiterates appeal for tougher gun laws

He didn't say how many of the shooters got their guns legally. My guess would be none. What new law will stop that?