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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 02:50 AM Aug 2016

Nearly 100 People Shot In Chicago In Less Than A Week

Nearly 100 people have been shot in Chicago in less than a week, pushing the number of shooting victims so far this year to more than 2,500 — about 800 more than this time last year, according to data kept by the Tribune.

Between last Friday afternoon and early Thursday, at least 99 people were shot in the city, 24 of them fatally. At least nine people were killed on Monday alone, the deadliest day in Chicago in 13 years, according to Tribune data. Among the wounded that day was a 10-year-old boy shot in the back as he played on his front porch in Lawndale.

The number of shooting victims in Chicago stood at 2,514 Thursday morning. At this time last year, 1,725 people had been shot. The city has not seen this level of gun violence since the 1990s, a trend the Police Department has blamed on lax gun laws and feuding gang factions.

Over eight hours from Wednesday evening through early Thursday, three people were killed and at least 10 others were wounded in the city.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-violence-shootings-20160810-story.html

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Nearly 100 People Shot In Chicago In Less Than A Week (Original Post) Purveyor Aug 2016 OP
Rahm not so much Egnever Aug 2016 #1
This is Obama's fault True Dough Aug 2016 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2016 #3
go ask your buddies at the Freak Republic Skittles Aug 2016 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2016 #5
If these numbers were from a shooting at a UMC white school, there would be thousands of posts. Eleanors38 Aug 2016 #6
Man bites dog leads the news. linuxman Aug 2016 #12
This hot dry summer in Chicago is surely exacerbating things. tritsofme Aug 2016 #7
This makes the Chamber of Commerce's job kind of difficult. lpbk2713 Aug 2016 #8
Sheesh - 1400 people responsible for 70-80% of the gun violence...and they know who they are. jmg257 Aug 2016 #9
Damn Amish. Heeeeers Johnny Aug 2016 #14
Unwanted social interactions Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #10
Whooooooooo lawdy. linuxman Aug 2016 #11
Blame the NRA, Wayne La Pierre, manufacturers, law abiding gun owners in 3... 2... 1... Heeeeers Johnny Aug 2016 #13
Where is CPD? madville Aug 2016 #15
Yep - they surely do... jmg257 Aug 2016 #16

True Dough

(17,305 posts)
2. This is Obama's fault
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:46 AM
Aug 2016

He created an environment for gang bangers to thrive as recruits for ISIS. Just ask Drumpf!

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Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
6. If these numbers were from a shooting at a UMC white school, there would be thousands of posts.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:51 PM
Aug 2016

Some deaths are more equal than others.

 

linuxman

(2,337 posts)
12. Man bites dog leads the news.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:48 PM
Aug 2016

Not exactly a groundbreaking concept.

If the norm of your neighborhood is daily shootings it's not exactly "news". They might as well write "Mainstreet still paved with asphalt"

tritsofme

(17,379 posts)
7. This hot dry summer in Chicago is surely exacerbating things.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:24 PM
Aug 2016

Every night on the news there are more dead, so sad.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
9. Sheesh - 1400 people responsible for 70-80% of the gun violence...and they know who they are.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:31 PM
Aug 2016

Hopefully they'll figure out a way to deal with them.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
10. Unwanted social interactions
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:33 PM
Aug 2016


https://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2008/07_25_2008/story1.htm
Freedman suggested a different conclusion, though. Moral decay resulted “not from density, but from excessive social interaction,” Ramsden explained. “Not all of Calhoun’s rats had gone berserk. Those who managed to control space led relatively normal lives.” Striking the right balance between privacy and community, Freedman argued, would reduce social pathology. It was the unwanted unavoidable social interaction that drove even fairly social creatures mad, he believed.

madville

(7,410 posts)
15. Where is CPD?
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 09:46 PM
Aug 2016

They should be cracking down on the gangs in these problem areas, shake every one of them down, search cars, serve warrants in their houses and apartments. Surely the gang units know who the players are and where they live.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
16. Yep - they surely do...
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 09:55 PM
Aug 2016

"In a city of 2.7 million people, about 1,400 are responsible for much of the violence, Mr. Johnson said, and all of them are on what the department calls its Strategic Subject List.

So far this year, more than 70 percent of the people who have been shot in Chicago were on the list, according to the police, as were more than 80 percent of those arrested in connection with shootings."

“We are targeting the correct individuals,” Mr. Johnson said. “We just need our judicial partners and our state legislators to hold these people accountable.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/us/armed-with-data-chicago-police-try-to-predict-who-may-shoot-or-be-shot.html
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