Thin blue line
This is a sad Monday in the Windy City. It seems as if the gang bangers in Chicago are trying to give Baltimore a run for their money. In just a single weekend, the Chicago PD recorded more than fifty shootings leaving ten people dead. And this is all happening in a city with some of the toughest gun laws in the country. (NBC News)
At least 52 people were shot and 10 killed in Chicago’s most violent weekend so far this year, leading police Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Monday to declare the uptick a “despicable level of violence.”
At a news conference, Johnson described how police were within blocks of some of the shootings — one commander in the Austin neighborhood was only a half-block away — and how “emboldened some of these individuals are” who opened fire.
Police attributed the majority of the gun violence to gangs, and Johnson ordered targeted patrols in areas where retaliation is likely to occur, including the West Side and the South Side districts.
