...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...authorities said Sunday that gun violence in the city saw at least 47 victims shot, including five who died, according to ABC7Chicago.
In one incident cited in the report, six people were shot on Saturday morning in Chicago in a single incident, which involved an unidentified gunman opening fire into a crowd.
Darryl Martin, who told the outlet he witnessed the shooting, described it as a "conversation with bullets; people were shooting it out."
It comes on the heels of a report last week from the Chicago Police Department (pdf), which noted 2,898 shooting incidents so far this year, compared to 1,899 by the same time in 2019, a 53 percent increase. The report also noted that homicides in Chicago were up by the same percentage, with 692 so far in 2020, compared to 451 by the same period last year.
Overall crime complaints in Chicago, however, are down 7 percent so far in 2020 compared to last year, with a 27 percent drop in thefts and a 22 percent drop in criminal sexual assaults.
Violent and property crime across the United States have fallen significantly since the early 1990s, when crime spiked across much of the nation, according to statistics published by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical arm of the Department of Justice.
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