Posted on 09/01/2016 7:29:52 AM PDT by simpson96
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 24-year-old man was killed and a 23-year-old man was grazed by a bullet in a shooting in the West Lawn neighborhood late Wednesday night, capping off the most violent month in Chicago in 20 years.
Chicago police said there were 90 homicides in August, and a total of 472 people shot in 384 separate attacks. The city has not had that many murders in one month since August 1996.
As he has several times before, Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said a relatively small group of repeat gun criminals are responsible for the the vast majority of gun violence in Chicago. The department maintains a watchlist of sorts, called the “strategic subject list,” which relies on an algorithm to try to predict who is most likely to be involved in a shooting – either as the shooter or victim – by analyzing data such as gang affiliations, criminal records, past shootings, and previous contact with police.
Most of our violence is driven by 1,400 individuals in this city. So until we hold these repeat gun offenders accountable for their actions, we’re going to continue to see this violence,” Johnson said.
Overall this year, there have been 467 homicides in Chicago, more than New York City and Los Angeles combined.
“We also recover more guns than New York and L.A. combined, but that just shows you the proliferation of guns out here in the streets of Chicago,” Johnson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...
They’ll get a 3 day weekend come Labor Day.
Global warming?
Another Obama accomplishment. His telling POCs that he has their back, his stoking of racial grievances, and his persecution of police and getting them to back off on enforcement is getting people killed and furthers his drive to collapse the US.
Wait.....repeat offenders? They know who they are? The solution sounds fairly simple.
Probably just another terrible consequence of man-made GoreBull warming.
The Utopia the Left has always promised they will achieve just around the corner, looks more like this than not.
None the less, many folks keep voting for people who manage to facilitate things more like this than not.
Man there are a lot of folks who take pride in being stuck on stupid.
They just need more midnight basketball programs, right?
Still, the article helps show how being PC harms efforts to do anything about this situation as it says that some 1,400 people are responsible for most of this but says away from identifying them.
Chicagoans need more guns and ammo. Just put up some huge shipping containers full of automatic weapons and ammo right down, say, near the bus station. Take as much as you like, sort of like a buffet. That will cure the Chicago violence problem.
wow, the cops killed that many people? (/sarcasm)
Rahm EManuel can’t even run his own city.
what a d*ckhead
“The solution sounds fairly simple.”
Solution? They don’t need no stinkin’ solutions!
Its my fault. When I am not working, or doing projects, or eating, or reading, or 4 wheeling, or otherwise occupied, I spend the remaining part of my day when I am not sleeping oppressing black people
From the article linked below...
“But there is another way to analyze the violence that is remarkably straightforward: So many shootings are gang-related that the police can use arrest and intelligence data to predict who might shoot or be shot. In fact, the police keep a running list — another bizarre, grim roll call — of 1,300 individuals most likely to be involved in a shooting or killing, either as a victim or an offender.”
#BlackLivesMatter*
*except in Chicongo
DNC run city profiles!
The department maintains a watchlist of sorts, called the “strategic subject list,” which relies on an algorithm to try to predict who is most likely to be involved in a shooting – either as the shooter or victim – by analyzing data such as gang affiliations, criminal records, past shootings, and previous contact with police.
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