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07-07-2014, 01:36 PM #1
82 shot, 14 killed in 84 hours during July Fourth weekend in Chicago
82 shot, 14 killed in 84 hours during July Fourth weekend in Chicago
At least 11 people have been killed and 60 others have been wounded over the long holiday weekend in Chicago. The weekend's violence also includes six police-involved shootings, two of them fatal.
MICHAEL MUSKALcontact the reporter
At least 82 people shots, 14 killed in spate of holiday weekend violence in Chicago
Overall homicides are down in Chicago, but city beset by violent weekend: 84 shot, 14 killed
Over the course of 84 hours during the Independence Day holiday in Chicago, from 3:30 p.m. Thursday to 3:30 a.m. Monday, 82 people were shot and 14 were killed.
The number of dead could rise because several of the injured are listed in critical condition. Five people were reportedly shot by Chicago police and two died.
Related story: Bloody Chicago weekend raises questions about guns, gangs and morals Michael Muskal
“Chicago’s violence problem is largely a gun problem,” according to a May proposal to toughen the city’s gun laws. “Every year, Chicago police officers take thousands of illegal guns off the street. But, despite these efforts, it remains far too easy for criminals to get their hands on deadly weapons.”
Chicago has become the poster child for urban violence, fueled by gangs and involving drive-by shootings or attacks from cars on other vehicles. People of all ages have been shot on streets and in some cases while sitting on their porches.
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Yet homicides have actually been going down since 2012 when the city surpassed 500. By 2013, the number of homicides had fallen to 415, still the largest in the nation and substantially more than New York City, with less than 350 and Los Angeles at 255. When computed as the number of murders per 100,000 people, Detroit zooms to the top of the heap in a virtual tie with New Orleans. But Chicago still has the largest number of killings.
Fourth of July is deadliest holiday weekend Maya Srikrishnan
According to the Chicago Tribune, which keeps a tally of shooting victims, 1,129 have been shot so far this year in Chicago. According to the Tribune, there were 2,185 shooting victims in Chicago last year.
Last week, Chicago police reported that the number of homicides in Chicago fell during the first half of the year compared with the same period last year. This year, Chicago had 172 homicides through June 30 — nine fewer than the same period last year and 82 fewer than during the first six months of 2012.
In 2012, an armed gunman invaded a Colorado movie theater killing 12 and injuring 70. Later in the year, Adam Lanza attacked the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 pupils and six educators before killing himself. Those and other mass murders touched off a call for greater control of gun violence. But Congress generally ignored lobbying by gun-control groups, though some of the states tightened their rules, including limiting the size of ammunition magazines and other steps to hinder the spread of weapons.
On Monday, the gun control group funded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced its latest campaign aimed at giving voters information as the nation heads into the mid-term election.
The group is sending political candidates 10 questions on gun issues and will use the questionnaire to mobilize what it said will be 1 million Americans who back gun safety measures.
In May, Chicago’s City Council unanimously approved two measures to toughen gun laws. One law clarifies which types of assault weapons are banned.
According to the city, from 2009 to 2013, 60% of the guns used to commit crimes in Chicago were originally bought out of state, mainly in Indiana, Mississippi and Wisconsin. Three of the top four sources for guns recovered in Chicago were gun dealers in Illinois cities near Chicago.
Not all of Chicago’s efforts have been successful. In January, a federal judge ruled that an outright ban on gun shops in Chicago was unconstitutional, citing the 2nd Amendment.
“The city of Chicago does not have a problem of too few guns,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel noted in May. “There are way too many guns from shops in Cook County and from neighboring states that come into the city of Chicago. On any given weekend, our police officers take more guns off the streets than either New York or L.A.”
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07-08-2014, 12:46 PM #3
Report: Chicago July 4th weekend shooting death toll climbs to 16
CHICAGO - Chicago's Fourth of July weekend death toll has climbed to 16 with the death of two men shot just before midnight Sunday and early Monday, reports the Chicago Tribune...CBS News - 27 minutes ago NO AMNESTY
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