Chicago's Holiday Toll Was 82 Shootings, 14 Deaths

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The spree of shootings in Chicago during the long holiday weekend reached 82 incidents and included 14 deaths, according to a tabulation of police reports.

 

 

That number marks a significant jump from the same period last year, despite an increase of "hundreds" of officers on the street to prevent violence.

"It’s groundhog day here in Chicago again," Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said this morning, in an apparent reference to repeated spasms of violence in the city.

Of the 14 fatalities, two were shot dead by police.

More Than 60 Shot, 9 Dead in Chicago's Bloody Holiday Weekend

The Chicago police department released different statistics claiming the weekend saw 50 shootings that included nine fatalities.

The difference in the statistics is the difference in the time frame. Chicago police figures spanned a period from 6 p.m. Thursday as the long holiday weekend began to midnight Sunday. Figures calculated by ABC News' affiliate WLS began at 4 p.m. Thursday to 3:30 a.m. Monday and totaled 82 shootings.

The violent weekend ended with a barrage of 21 shootings on Sunday, McCarthy said.

McCarthy said in a press conference today that the department had deployed "hundreds" more officers over the weekend in anticipation of holiday violence.

"The results were a lot of shootings and a lot of murders unfortunately," he said. "Yesterday was the day that really blew it up for us in our strategy."

"It all comes down to these guns: there's too many guns coming in and too little punishment going out," McCarthy said.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel put out a statement Monday afternoon calling the violence "simply unacceptable" and said that it "points out that we still have work to do".

http://abcnews.go.com/US/chicagos-holiday-toll-82-shootings-14-deaths/story?id=24452637

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I bet most of them happened in Chicago south parts

Chicago South is in the pits of hell The Olympics Committee should've chosen Chicago to host Olympics. They had a plan to rebuild southern parts of the city

North on the other side is one of the best and high-quality places to live in America

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Not surprised at all 

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SouthsideChicago, East Saint Louis, Flint, Detroit are all scary tbh

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"Ever wonder how Toronto stacks up for crime rates and number of police officers to a few big American cities?

Toronto's population is about 2.6 million, which is close to Chicago with 2.7 million and Houston with 2.1 million residents. Houston has about 5,400 police officers, which is similar to Toronto's number of officers at about 5,600. Chicago has about 12, 000 police, which is more than double what Toronto has, but Chicago also has an extremely high homicide and gun-crime rate.

Toronto is currently sitting at 33 homicides and 141 shootings for the year so far and Chicago is currently looking at 313 murders and a whopping 1,453 shootings, according to the statistics on the Chicago Police website. Chicago tops the violent-crime rate with already a count of 45, 571 this year.

Chicago's rate has already surpassed the violent-crime rate for 2011 in Toronto, which was 31,332 and 25,592 in Houston for '09."

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/17/toronto-crime-stats-vs-american-cities

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This was all over the news today. What a great place to live.... :fat: