Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson needs to reconsider his anti-police, pro-criminal, soft-on-crime ideology. It’s not working. Of all the increased homicides in Chicago, 77% are black victims.
Chicago Police Department data shows that there were 725 homicides across the city in 2022, a 43% increase over the 508 that were recorded in 2019, or the last year of the dawn before the COVID-19 pandemic, Just the News reported.
Data shows practically every area of the city was impacted by the increased violence in 19 of the 22 districts recording more murders; black communities were hit the hardest. Black Chicagoans represent 77% of the homicide victims while making up only 29% of the overall population.
Additionally, nearly 25% of all homicide victims were 21 or younger, with gang activity (40%) proving to be the primary motive behind most of the violence.
Organizations like Violence Interrupters were making a difference, but it became derailed by the Covid lockdown.
The executive director of Violence Interrupters, Tio Hardiman, said that one reason why shootings and homicides spiked was “due to the fact, a lot of the social-political leaders became soft on crime. A lot of legislators have made decisions from the mountaintop when it comes down to criminal justice, reform, and policy was put in place like the no-chase. I think police should be able to chase; they just have to use discretion when they chase.
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77% of victims and 70.5% of offenders were African American, 18.9% were Hispanic (20.3% of offenders), and whites were 5.6% of victims (3.5% of offenders). Looks like whitey knows how to behave himself. Its a hopeless cause trying to stop the violence in the black community. Best advice is to stay the hell away from them.
Yep, that problem will eventually take care of itself. Lem ’em have at it.