Chicago Hits 500 Murders for 2016

[Weatherman2020]

And not a peep from the usual suspects except more attacking the police.

Chicago hits Grim milestone with 500 homicides in 2016

 

[DigitalDrifter]

What a disgusting reputation they have. Dims have ran the town forever, they should be ashamed and humiliated.

 

[JimBowie1958]

And not a peep from the usual suspects except more attacking the police.

Chicago hits Grim milestone with 500 homicides in 2016

Democrats dont give a shit about black lives.

That is just their latest scare-all-the-coloreds-into-voting-Dimbocrat tactic for this election.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

And they're almost all blacks killed by other blacks. But the controlled media won't say that.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - the Donald knows what he talkin' `bout...

Murder rate highlights harsh reality
October 3, 2016 -- DURING last week's debate, one of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's better moments came when he argued that failure to maintain law and order has a devastating effect, particularly on inner-city residents. New data from the FBI backs up Trump's argument.

According to the FBI, the number of murders in the United States increased 10.8 percent in 2015 -- the largest jump in two decades. Until 2015, the largest increase of the last 20 years occurred in 2005, when the rate increased 3.7 percent. Some officials note the violent crime rate still remains far below the levels seen in decades past. Crime has fallen greatly since the 1990s. Yet the sharp reverse in trajectory is reason for concern. Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, believes the surge is tied to the "Ferguson effect," referring to the aftermath of tensions unleashed by the shooting of a black 18-year-old man in Ferguson, Mo., by a police officer in 2014.

Rosenfeld told The Wall Street Journal that incident, and others like it, have made police less likely to engage with citizens in certain neighborhoods, particularly the inner city. At the same time, residents in those neighborhoods are less likely to trust the police and report crimes. This creates a vicious cycle where residents in those neighborhoods are more likely to be the victims of crime. The increased murder rate is tied largely to crimes committed "in certain large cities where police- community tensions have been notable," Rosenfeld said. A report by the Major Cities Chiefs Association buttresses that argument. It found murders rose in 29 of the nation's largest cities, Chicago among them. In the first half of 2016, Chicago experienced 316 killings compared with 211 in the first half of 2015.

During the debate, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton suggested greater gun control was needed to reduce crime. Yet Chicago has some of the nation's most restrictive gun laws. Trump endorsed use of "stop and frisk" policies by police, a practice in which officers search individuals for weapons under reasonable circumstances. It's impossible to quantify how much effect stop and frisk alone has on crime, but that method was employed along with other forms of "broken window" policing by New York City officials in the 1990s. By aggressively prosecuting all forms of crime, including "minor" crimes like vandalism, police were able to arrest numerous individuals who committed other crimes as well. During Mayor Rudy Giuliani's tenure, the city's murder rate plummeted nearly two-thirds. Some still criticize those police methods, but there's no doubt they helped make even the inner city a far safer place for inhabitants.

That's a point Trump seemed to understand, but one that eluded Clinton. During the debate, Trump argued that "we need law and order in the inner cities," because "it's very unfair" to those who live there when politicians allow crime to surge out of deference to political correctness. Clinton weakly responded it was "really unfortunate" that her opponent "paints such a dire, negative picture of black communities in our country." Yet Trump's description isn't out of line with the realities of inner-city Chicago and similar communities with disproportionately severe murder rates. Although Clinton may think otherwise, politicians who deny reality are doing no favors for citizens in the nation's toughest urban areas.

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Review illuminates homicides in Allegheny (MD) County
September 30, 2016 --They are black men, they're under 30, they have arrest records and they make up a disproportionate number of homicide victims across Allegheny County, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, who hope training in new ways to look at homicides can help answer the question of "why."

On Thursday, local law enforcement, judicial, jail and human services officials met at Pitt to review the researchers' findings and train in new ways to look at and share homicide data that will go beyond just the facts of the crime to include the background, family life and social circle of the victim and suspect. Those aspects can help police and other agencies identify patterns and relationships among victims and suspects and help prevent more killings. "The police do their own (investigation), and that's restricted, because they're charged with solving crimes," said Steve Albert, chair of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at Pitt. "From a public health standpoint, we're interested in getting the background on every homicide as well as -- for example, what human services contacts the people had or what prior probation or parole activities they may have had."

Pitt's School of Public Health has compiled a homicide review since 2012, and its 2015 review takes a deeper look at information surrounding each homicide. African Americans make up 13 percent of the county's population, but 81 percent of the 114 homicide victims. Albert said much can be learned from factors that aren't directly related to the homicide itself -- factors that could answer the "why" behind a homicide -- and a model created by the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission brings those to perspectives together, he said. "Navigating it is difficult," he said. "But we feel that greater communication along both sides with proper involvement of the community is probably the right way to go."

The commission reviews homicides and non-fatal shootings at least once a month. Law enforcement, community groups and social service organizations are included in the review process. Once police present the facts of the case, community groups and social service organizations review what they know about the victim and suspect, from substance abuse problems to welfare benefits. After Milwaukee's homicide review commission was launched to reduce rising homicide numbers in the 1990s and early 2000s, the city saw homicides drop from around 120 to 86 in 2014. There was a spike in 2015, when many major cities reported a jump in numbers.

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Thousand more people shot in Chicago than this time last year...

1,000 More Shot in Chicago Than Last Year
October 17, 2016 - A thousand more people have been shot in Chicago this year compared with the same time last year after a weekend that saw eight people killed and at least 40 wounded.

At least 3,475 people had been shot in the city as of shortly after midnight Monday compared with 2,441 people shot this time last year, an increase of 1,034, according to Tribune data. There have been at least 595 homicides this year compared with 409 this time last year, an increase of 186. The gun violence over the weekend was at levels usually seen in the summer when shootings typically spike. A single attack Friday night in East Garfield Park killed one man and left six others wounded, according to police. The people were standing together in the 3300 block of West Maypole Street when someone opened fire from a black vehicle, police said.

A member of the Chicago Police Department works the scene where a woman was shot in the jaw while driving on the 3100 block of West 54th Street​

An attack of that scale has not occurred in Chicago since 2014, when seven people — including several young teens — were shot in Lawndale. The Maypole shooting capped off an exceptionally deadly night on the West Side. Less than a half-hour before, two men were fatally shot in a South Austin drive-by, police said. About an hour before that, an 18-year-old man was killed in West Garfield Park But shootings occurred in nearly every corner of Chicago over the weekend, from a fatal attack in West Rogers Park to a shooting in Morgan Park near the southern border. A man was shot Sunday afternoon near the 95th Street Red Line CTA station, where he ran after being hit in the shoulder.

Overall, six people were killed and 14 were wounded from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning; from Saturday morning to Sunday morning, one person was killed and 17 were wounded; and from Sunday to just past midnight Monday, one person was killed and at least nine others were wounded. In addition, a man was shot by police officers responding to a robbery at a gas station in West Humboldt Park on Sunday night, police said. He was shot in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.

1,000 More People Shot in Chicago Than Last Year | Officer.com

 

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Chicago homicides up 55%...

Homicides Increase by 55 percent in Chicago
November 7, 2016 - For the second weekend in a row, more than 50 people were shot in Chicago as the number of homicides this year rose to more than 50 percent above the same period last year.

More than 660 people have been killed in the city so far this year, according to data compiled by the Tribune. Barring an exceptional slowdown, Chicago is on pace to exceed 700 homicides by year's end for the first time since 1998. The number of people shot in Chicago this year is more than a thousand above what it was this time last year, from 2,620 to 3,795, according to Tribune data.

From Friday afternoon to late Sunday, 10 people were killed and 41 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago, police said. Among the wounded was a 78-year-old man who was dragged out of a car in Englewood on Sunday and shot in the head. He was listed in serious condition. Five people were shot in a single attack in Uptown early Saturday morning, police said. Two men, two women and a 17-year-old boy were shot about 1:35 a.m. in the 4800 block of North Winthrop Avenue. They were all taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition.

A member of the Chicago Police Department works the scene of a shooting on the 5700 block of South Calumet Avenue​

Law enforcement sources said none of them provided details of the shooting to investigators. The most recent fatal shooting was at 2:15 p.m. Sunday in Roseland, where two men ages 19 and 20 were shot. Both were hospitalized in what police initially said was good condition, but the 19-year-old later was pronounced dead. The two were shot in the 11100 block of South Michigan Avenue, the same block where another 19-year-old man was killed last week.

In addition to the fatal shootings, a man was stabbed to death in Chatham late Sunday. He was found with stab wounds to the chest after a fight in the 8300 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue and pronounced dead at the scene. On Saturday, 25-year-old Joshua Beal was shot to death by Chicago police in a chaotic encounter Mount Greenwood. Police characterized it as a road-rage incident that led to an off-duty Chicago police officer and sergeant firing their weapons. Beal's death was ruled a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds, a technical ruling that does not indicate legal culpability for the death.

Homicides Increase by 55 percent in Chicago | Officer.com