Jackson noted that the president has repeatedly visited communities across the U.S. during his presidency after they have suffered mass shootings to mourn with the victims’ families and talk about the larger issue of gun violence.
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Two brothers who were on parole for prior criminal activity have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the cousin of National Basketball Association star Dwyane Wade, Chicago police announced Sunday.
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Rauner meet with young people and parents to discuss full funding for: Teen Reach, Ceasefire, youth summer jobs and other programs proven to reduce violence.
But we can not just throw up our hands and go about business as usual.
As the department gears up for what could be a violent Labor Day weekend, the union that represents the department’s 10,000 rank-and-file officers has called on officers who are scheduled to be off not to work overtime shifts.
“I’m frustrated, you should be frustrated, all Chicagoans should be frustrated”.
Police say two men were hit and wounded as someone approached them on a porch in a neighborhood on the west side of Chicago and started shooting.
Cohen said proactive stops by police “is the primary way you deal with this type of violence”.
Arthur Stringer, a former leader of the Black Disciples in Woodlawn, supported Hardiman’s calls for funding and said Aldridge’s murder was part of a dispute between members of the same gang.
On the west side, five men shot dead a 38-year-old man parking his vehicle, leaving a puddle of blood behind.
“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 American Medical Association, who claims the incidents as a public health crisis, is now working on eliminating a 20-year-old law that prevents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to study gun violence as a medical matter.
Authorities said Sunday that the brothers were aiming at a driver bringing several women to Parkway Gardens from the suburbs.
Just less than 24 hours before Diann Aldridge’s death, her cousin, Dwyane Wade, spoke in front of a crowd at a YMCA in Chicago’s South Side. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tried to use her death to gain political support among African American voters on Twitter.
A memorial sits along the street near the location where Laquan McDonald was shot and killed in Chicago, Illinois. And that vision for America would continue to flood cities like Chicago with even more guns and put even more innocent lives on the line – like those who are playing in parks or walking down the street.
“The historical cycle of violence we have seen in some communities must come to an end”, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a statement. “I think in some cases for good reason, but it comes from crime control effects”, he tells The Christian Science Monitor. “Ask yourself, are you trying to win this battle alone?”
There were 244 homicides in Los Angeles area, according to numbers from the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Banks said later Tuesday by email that he was never questioned or charged in the probe. What is the solution to gun violence problem, and is everyone on the same page? While law enforcement officers are working hard in IL to keep guns out of the hands of risky people, they face a almost impossible task because of weak gun laws in surrounding states. “People do not want to live like this”.
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In this country, 32 states – including IN, which borders the city of Chicago – have what’s called a “private sale loophole” IN which criminals and other risky people can obtain guns online or at gun shows, without a background check, no questions asked.
