CHICAGO (CBS) — With 78 homicides, October was the second deadliest month of 2016, and Chicago surpassed 600 homicides for the first time in more than a decade.
The last time Chicago had at least 600 homicides in a single year was 2003.
Homicides and non-fatal shootings have skyrocketed in 2016, with 605 homicides and more than 3,600 shooting victims through the end of October.
In October, there were 78 homicides and 427 shooting victims. Only August had more homicides, when 90 people were slain in Chicago. It was the bloodiest month in the city in 20 years.
The city is on pace for 726 homicides in 2016, a number not seen since the late 1990s.
Chicago police said the majority of the increase in violence this year has happened in five districts on the South Side and West Side, but Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said his officers were not outmanned in those areas.
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3 comments:
3,600 shootings = with 600 of them DEAD and nobody says a damn thing or does anything about it. Yet a policeman (white or black) shoots a black man and all hell breaks loose. Marchs, riots, protests, convoluted knashing of teeth. Why is there such a double standard and how come the black community doesn't rise up and say ENOUGH? As pogo said, "we have met the enemy and he is us" (sic). Not the kind of article I enjoy reading with my morning coffee. Sad.
I do love it when records are broken! It's like being a spectator for your favorite sport.
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