Thread: Chicago crosses 2,000 shooting victims this year

By John Newsome CNN

Chicago crosses 2,000 shooting victims this year

UPDATED 6:56 PM CDT Jul 05, 2016

(CNN) —A war among criminals rages on in America's third-largest city, with innocent residents caught in the crossfire.

Over the holiday weekend, Chicago passed an ominous threshold: So far in 2016, 2,000 people have been victims of gun violence.

In all of last year, 2,988 people were victims of gun violence, according to records kept by The Chicago Tribune.

Over the Fourth of July weekend, four people were killed and 46 were injured in 42 shootings and a stabbing, according to a release from Chicago police. Last July 4 weekend, seven were killed and 40 wounded.

Looking at all of 2016 -- in every metric that matters in tracking gun violence -- the numbers are up.

At least 319 people have been slain in Chicago this year, about a 50% increase over this period last year. The number of shootings and the number of shooting victims in 2016 have increased at about the same rate.

Police response
Chicago police executed an aggressive gang raid on Friday, hoping to decrease violence over the holiday weekend.

Eighty-eight people were arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges, according to police. Of that group, 55 were convicted felons, and 16 were serving parole sentences for earlier crimes, police said.

Police called the levels of violence over the holiday weekend unacceptable, but noted that the city's fireworks display, lakefront and transit stations remained safe.

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the focus needs to be on stopping repeat offenders.
"We have too many guns in the streets of Chicago and too many people willing to use them," he said Tuesday.

Johnson said officials will look at whether more officers should have been deployed over part of the holiday.

http://www.4029tv.com/national/chica...-year/40369148

4 DEAD, 62 WOUNDED IN JULY 4TH WEEKEND CHICAGO VIOLENCE

Chicago crosses 2,000 shooting victims this year

Will someone tell Obama there is a huge problem in Chicago.

5 Devastating Facts About Black-on-Black Crime
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by JEROME HUDSON 28 Nov 20156,711

The mainstream American media is, again, happily hitting the Black Lives Matter crack pipe in its pernicious pursuit of high ratings. These blood-lusting junkies were nowhere to be found when, with haunting predictability, Chicago news headline after headline detailed the carnage that has consumed dozens of communities in that city where black men kill each other with terrifying regularity.

Where were these Black Lives Matter protesters after the slaying of Chicago’s little Tyshawn Lee, the 9-year-old lured into an alley and shot to death by a black man seeking gang-related vengeance against his father?

Did little Tyshawn’s murder at the hands of a black gangster–an all too common occurrence in Chicago–not warrant wall-to-wall news coverage or Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson-style calls for “justice”?

No.

Why?

Because the ugly truth behind #BlackLivesMatter is that black people killing other black people does nothing to advance its political power in the same way that one white cop killing a black criminal can.

Despite the media’s overindulgence on white cops killing blacks, there is still a far-larger amount of black bodies being sent to morgues by black killers. Here’s five devastating facts, liberals can’t deny, that prove it.

FACT 1. Over 1,400 more black Americans murdered other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968.

According to FBI data, 4,906 black people murdered other blacks in 2010 and 2011. That is 1,460 more black Americans killed by other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968, according to the Tuskegee Institute.

FACT 2. Black People (mostly men) commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime.

In 2012, white males were 38 percent of the population and committed 4,582 murders. That same year, black males were just 6.6 percent of the population but committed a staggering 5,531 murders.

In other words: black people–at just a fifth of the size–committed almost 1,000 more murders than their white counterparts.

The figures above highlight a horrific truth that black racialists and white liberals routinely ignore: Lawbreaking black Americans, young black males particularly, put themselves in close proximity to (mostly white male) police officers at rates sometimes five to 10 times higher than whites. This is a recipe for disaster. Thusly….

FACT 3. Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks committed half of homicides in the United States for nearly 30 years.

DOJ statistics show that between 1980 and 2008, black people committed 52% of homicides.

In 2013, black criminals committed 38% of the murders. Whites accounted for just 31 percent.

There are five times fewer black people than white people in America and, yet, they consistently carry out a larger share of the crimes? Given this rate, it’s no wonder that there aren’t more assistances where cops kill black criminals.

FACT 4. Chicago’s death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined.

There have been almost as many deaths in one American city as there have been in the two major wars carried out by the U.S. military this century.

Chicago’s death toll from 2001–November, 26 2015 stands at 7,401. The combined total deaths during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2015: 4,815) and Operation Enduring Freedom/Afghanistan (2001-2015: 3,506), total 8,321.

FACT 5. It would take cops 40 years to kill as many black men as have died at the hands of others black men in 2012 alone.

University of Toledo criminologist Dr. Richard R. Johnson examined the latest crime data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports and Centers for Disease Control and found that an average of 4,472 black men were killed by other black men annually between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2012.

Professor Johnson’s research further concluded that 112 black men died from both justified and unjustified police-involved killings annually during this same period.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...k-black-crime/

What it tells me are a few things:

1. Nothing serious to my knowledge is being done about black men/women/children being killed at the hands of other blacks.
2. The larger problem (# of murders) of black on black crime is being totally ignored.

No American should have to live or walk down those streets of Chicago that would instill fear into some of the bravest people on this planet. How do women and children do it everyday?

Just posted the thread, "Chicago on the Brink". A lengthy but accurate assessment of the surge and unstoppable murdering spree going on there. Police department can no longer police correctly due to the changes from the police shootings. It will not get better anytime soon and the civilians are paying the price. The prisoners are now running the prison, metaphorically.

Crime in Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Crime in Chicago has been tracked by the Chicago Police Department's Bureau of Records ... Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. ... 83% of murders involved a firearm, and 6.4% were the result of a stabbing. ... Violence in these neighborhoods has had a detrimental impact on the ...

Send in the National Guard. Mandatory curfew and do sweep loading up the thugs and gangs. Need to open Alcatraz back up.

This city is a perfect example of what a national response is for. Yes, martial law in the affected areas so human beings who are trapped there because of poverty can walk the streets safely. Round up the 1600 gang members with warrants for their arrest and restore some sensibility to that great city.

Originally Posted by joe s

. . . Round up the 1600 gang members with warrants for their arrest and restore some sensibility to that great city.

Arrest Warrant Basics

An officer typically obtains an arrest warrant by submitting an affidavit to a judge or magistrate. (Depending on state law, an officer might even be allowed to complete a warrant application by phone.)

To get a warrant, the officer has to provide information that establishes probable cause to believe that the named person committed a particular crime.

Arrest warrants typically need specify only:

• the name of the person to be arrested
• the charged crime, and
• the name of the court issuing the warrant.

http://criminal.lawyers.com/criminal...-warrants.html