In many aspects, Chicago’s story is a tale of two cities.
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Among the killed was Nykea Aldridge, cousin of Bulls star and area native Dwyane Wade.
JOHN YANG: Aldridge was caught in crossfire as she pushed one of her four young children in a stroller near a school on the city’s South Side.
Aldridge was among more than 80 people killed in Chicago this month.
August 2016 is going down as the most violent month in Chicago in the past 20 years. He said this year to date, 85 percent of the non-fatal and fatal shooting victims are on the department’s “strategic subject list”.
The department says five districts on the city’s South and West sides account for the majority of the violence.
Tio Hardiman, head of CeaseFire Violence Interrupters – an organisation that intervenes in gang violence – said: “You have to watch yourself every minute of the day, and that’s what is sad”. “We’re at an in-between stage right now”. We’re too divided as a people.
Despite these grim numbers, there persists among many the notion that it is the city’s police officers who bear the greatest share of blame for all that ails Chicago.
Among the African-American males shot during the time period covered by the Chicago Tribune’s database was 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was struck by 16 bullets during a confrontation with police in October 2014.
Gun violence is ravaging America’s second-largest city.
When asked what advice he would give to Supt. You have got to watch the police, you have got to watch the brothers in the community.
“There has been a decrease in the productivity of police” nationally, says Michael Jenkins, an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Scranton, who studied under “broken windows” theorist George Kelling. The city’s black population, the most vulnerable to gun violence, is on the decline, as residents with the means to do so leave for the suburbs and other states. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, police said.
However there does not seem to be a clear cause of the rise, although police and mayor Rahm Emanuel frequently point to gang violence and the easy availability of guns.
Gov. Bruce Rauner froze $4.7 million in funding for the CeaseFire program in 2015.
Chicago City Council drop the Blue Lives Matter ordinance and close CPD’s Homan Square facility. The unfortunate occasion? A Town Hall discussion, hosted by The Undefeated, that addressed gun violence, policing and responsibility.
The White House did not immediately respond to Jackson’s criticism.
A call for action, in Chicago, after the deadliest month, from homicides, in 20 years.
And there are two days left in the month.
Over the last six years, police in Chicago, Illinois have fired 2,623 bullets at citizens, killing 92 people and injuring 170 others, according to a new database by the Chicago Tribune.
Chicago is in a state of undeclared war. At the end of August previous year, 331 people had been killed, according to stats from the Tribune.
This is an emergency. Wasn’t bothering nobody. Just going to register her kid for school but bullets fly around and have no name made a decision to find its way to her head.
Here are the two men. No one wins and everybody loses. We need more help& more hands on deck. We must not surrender or accept this as the norm. “We’d be glad to take that information and stop this violence”. Meanwhile, the rest of Chicago doesn’t seem to experience that much violence.
Superintendent Johnson announced in a press conference. “We’re gonna grow bigger and stronger because (there) has to be some healing”.
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And we have heard nothing from City Hall, nothing to help us.
