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Top cop after violent holiday weekend: 'It's not a police issue, it's a society issue'
[Chicago Tribune] After another violent holiday weekend, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Tuesday his department is doing all it can to combat violence rooted in "impoverished neighborhoods" where "people without hope do these kinds of things." "It's not a police issue, it's a society issue," Johnson told news hounds outside police headquarters after a long weekend that saw 65 people shot, 13 of them fatally. "Impoverished neighborhoods, people without hope do these kinds of things," he said. "You show me a man that doesn't have hope, I'll show you one that's willing to pick up a gun and do anything with it. "Those are the issues that's driving this violence. CPD is doing its job," he continued. Johnson pointed to increases in gun arrests this year over last year -- and more than 6,000 illegal gun recoveries so far in 2016 -- as evidence that officers are out on the streets working. But he acknowledged that the fallout from last year's release of the Laquan McDonald video, and the amplified distrust between the police and African-American community, doesn't make it easy for his officers. Posted by: Fred 2016-09-07 |
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