In 14 hours on Sunday in Chicago, 44 people were shot, including 5 who died, police say

[oberliner]

Source: CNN

Chicago police records show 44 people were shot on Sunday, including five who were killed.

In three hours beginning at 1:30 a.m., records show, 30 were shot and two killed in 10 incidents.

"The city of Chicago experienced a violent night," Bureau of Patrol Chief Fred Waller said Sunday afternoon. "Some of these instances were targeted and were related to gang conflicts in those areas."

In at least one incident, shooters opened fire into a crowded street party, Waller said.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/05/us/chicago-weekend-shootings/index.html

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In one instance, a 17 year old girl was shot in the face and pronounced dead at the scene.

[mucifer]

1. So far this weekend 63 shot 9 dead here in Chicago.

They say things were worse in the '90s. I don't remember it this bad.

[oberliner]

2. Here's an interesting article exploring that

How Did Chicago Get So Violent?

Did the effort to eradicate the city’s gangs in the 1990s inadvertently lead to its bloody present?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_next_20/2016/09/is_chicago_s_ghastly_murder_rate_the_result_of_its_1990s_anti_gang_policies.html

[JonLP24]

3. K&R for that article

I heard a lot about the Gangster Disciples on a lot of true crime stuff but not so much about Chicago after.

Reading it is a lot like the preferred approach to go after high end targets rather than street dealers.

[Yupster]

5. Pretty deressing read

It seems to make the case that gangs are inevitable and we just need to choose what type of gangs to accept.

Do we really have such low expectations?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Remind me again how guns make us safer?

[Locrian]

6. summary

But there is a deeper, knottier issue that’s driving the bloodshed, said Lance Williams, and that’s the almost total lack of opportunity and resources for people growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

“We look at these conflicts as gang-related because these kids have ‘gang ties,’ ” Williams said. “But it really has nothing to do with a gang. When the only thing you have, the last thing you have, is your humanity, what you think of as your manhood, you get this skewed vision of what a man is. Because it’s the last front for you. You might as well be dead if you can’t hold onto that.”

Regardless of what law enforcement officials try to do, Williams told me, the violence will continue until Chicago can give its young people something else.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Wasn't Donald going to solve this Chicago problem by sending Federal LEOs there?

Wasn't Donald going to solve this Chicago problem by sending Federal LEOs there?

Campaign promise?

Trump Says He's Sending the Feds Into Chicago Jun 30, 2017

https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/06/trump-chicago-gun-task-force/532410/

[ancianita]

8. The latest count from PBS is 11 killed, 70 wounded.

The police chief held a news conference today at noon.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/in-spasm-of-gun-violence-11-killed-and-nearly-70-wounded-in-chicago-weekend-shootings

[oberliner]

9. Thank you for sharing that

There have been some really moving tributes and vigils for the people who lost their lives in these shootings.

Absolutely heartbreaking.

For instance, Jahnae Patterson, a 17 year old girl who was shot in the face and killed.

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