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Police: 65 homicides in July in Chicago
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... is poised to see the number of homicides in July dip from June, but the city is still on pace to see more people killed in 2016 than last year. "We shake our heads and ask ’Why are some of our communities on the South and West Sides being held hostage by gun violence,'" Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said Monday. There were 65 homicides in Chicago in July, according to Chicago Police. There were 71 homicides in the city in June and 66 in May. The city has recorded 381 homicides so far in 2016, police said. That’s up about 44 percent from last year, when the city had 264 murders through July 31, 2015. Police said 2,394 people were shot in the city so far in 2016, including 441 in July. In the same time period last year, 1,564 people had been shot through July 31, 2015. Johnson invited news hounds to join him in the 4400 block of West Adams next to a vacant lot where officers on Sunday seized an illegal handgun that marked the 5,000th gun police had taken off the streets so far in 2016. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-02 |
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