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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Trump blasts Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel for record-setting 762 homicides and 4,331 shooting victims in 2016
2017-01-03
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] One of the most violent years in Chicago history ended with a sobering tally: 762 homicides, the most in two decades in the city

  • 'Chicago murder rate is record setting – 4,331 shooting victims with 762 murders in 2016,' Donald Trump tweeted on Monday

  • 'If Mayor [Rahm Emanuel] can't do it he must ask for Federal help!'

  • Emanuel and Trump met December 7 in New York City but reportedly talked about illegal-immigrant 'dreamers,' not gun violence

  • The nation's third largest city also saw 1,100 more shooting incidents last year than it did in 2015

  • The increase in homicides compared to 2015, when 485 were reported, is the largest spike in 60 years
Posted by:Fred

#12  I think gun control (taking guns away from people) in Chicago would be a great idea.

If we start with Rahm's bodyguards.
Posted by: Barbara   2017-01-03 20:46  

#11  There is no gun control in Chicago, not where it counts. They only want more restrictions on law abiding citizens.

Meanwhile, criminals, including repeat felons who use guns during a crime, are either not charged with that offense or get off lightly with early release.

Just enforce the existing law, and the killings will diminish very quickly. That's what Trump should propose and monitor.
Posted by: KBK   2017-01-03 20:18  

#10  Rahm keeps the murders within the plantation and he doesn't care.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-01-03 20:08  

#9  Found a link to Chicago F/R through Pappy's link, thought it would be interesting to listen to a major urban w/port dispatch system - about as far away from what I am used to as one can get without going international.

Little ways in, something like, "Do we have a unit available for a reported shooting?"
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-01-03 17:01  

#8  Favorite soundbite from the article: " ... Illinois lax gun laws..."
Posted by: Capsu78   2017-01-03 13:45  

#7  Somebody asked yesterday what is the point of gun control in Chicago. Obviously it's not helping with the shootings and murders. But as long as the shooters and murderers are "confined to certain geographic and demographic parameters" Emanuel and his kind don't care. Gun control is for the control of law abiding, legal citizens.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-01-03 11:56  

#6  The Zerohedge comments on this story are along the lines of 'Where can we donate extra ammo?'
Posted by: phil_b   2017-01-03 11:25  

#5  Demoncrats blame everyone but themselves and boy... to they have a lot of blame in this.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-01-03 09:46  

#4  C'mon folks, it's 795 plus 36 "death investigations"

As has been noted repeatedly at the Burg. Feel free to peruse the archives. 'Jackass' isn't just a term of affection here.

Yes, 795 with 36 possibles - and apparently the majority confined to certain geographic and demographic parameters.

Well, it keeps the boodle flowing.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-01-03 09:26  

#3  Dims are blaming Indiana.
Posted by: Nero White 3083   2017-01-03 08:02  

#2  I'm just waiting for the elevated commuter trains to become soft rush hour targets above the hazardous 'flyover' districts.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-01-03 03:24  

#1  C'mon folks, it's 795 plus 36 "death investigations"
Posted by: Jumbo Elmilet3928   2017-01-03 01:04  

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