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By Chicago standards they had a very quiet weekend with less than homicides than the Denver area or Houston.
It certainly was not a peaceful halloween in Chicago or Philadelphia.
14 shot in a mass shooting in Chicago's Garfield Park and 3 Halloween homicides in Philadelphia and many others injured.
It was rather odd how in years the violent crime often plummeted in the Autumn and Winter in these Northern cities like Chicago and Philadelphia but that does not seem to be the case recently.
Halloween Night those shootings must have seemed like a scene out of one of the Purge movies. Even more troubling is that's what they are doing do their rival-eliminating or purging them from the game of life.
Garfield Park is the west side actually, but very messed up in what happened. Almost sound like the shooters were literally looking for people to shoot. Among the 14 wounded, three are ages 3, 11, and 13.
By Chicago standards they had a very quiet weekend with less than homicides than the Denver area or Houston.
It certainly was not a peaceful halloween in Chicago or Philadelphia.
14 shot in a mass shooting in Chicago's Garfield Park and 3 Halloween homicides in Philadelphia and many others injured.
It was rather odd how in years the violent crime often plummeted in the Autumn and Winter in these Northern cities like Chicago and Philadelphia but that does not seem to be the case recently.
Sadly, this is what many have come to expect from our nation's most prominent major cities
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Didn’t mayor Beetlejuice say crime wasn’t a problem and that the Republican were just lying?
I believe that was Kathy Hochul. As if ignoring the crime and pretending it doesn't exist will make it stop... Although perhaps Beetlejuice did adopt the same strategy and I didn't hear about it. In the past, she just became enraged and branded people racists if they brought the issue up. But I don't think she went as far as to say it was Republicans lying. Kathy Hochul stepped into that deep end of the twilight zone for which there is no return.
Didn’t mayor Beetlejuice say crime wasn’t a problem and that the Republican were just lying?
Chicago crime is mostly a problem in the poor areas which means the city can largely ignore it and get away with calling for peace marches and blaming guns.
75% of the shootings are gang\drug related. (per CPD)
The big deflections have been:
-It's happening everywhere, no it's not.
-It used to be worse 25 years ago so losing a decade or more of progress is no big deal.
Garfield Park is the west side actually, but very messed up in what happened. Almost sound like the shooters were literally looking for people to shoot. Among the 14 wounded, three are ages 3, 11, and 13.
Said they were attending a vigil for someone that had died of "natural causes". (That they'd specifically note that is an odd thing to hear in most of the country but if you've been around big cities you know why they said it.)
While it could be mistaken identity, smart money is that they had a beef with some of the group at the vigil and knew they'd be there.
Funerals and vigils get shot up from time to time.
Chicago with 39 mass shootings so far, probably finish well below the 71 they had last year but still about double anybody else (Philly has 23).
Will be interesting to see what the 2023 numbers look like after the Safe-T act kicks in.
Gee, why isn't the media all over Chicago demanding for change? Where's the national outrage that there are vast swaths of cities, that Americans can't go to, without fear of getting attacked?
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