15 shot in Chicago

[novasteve]

Chicago Tribune

Local news only

 

[Big Black Dog]

Sounds like a slow weekend in Chicago.

 

[Rat in the Hat]

How many people were shot in the town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky??

 

[waltky]

Dindu Nuffin found guilty o' doin' sumpin'...

Chicago gang violence: Six Hobos leaders convicted
Wed, 04 Jan 2017 - A federal jury convicts six leaders of Chicago's notorious Hobos gang of racketeering conspiracy.

Six senior members of a notorious Chicago gang accused of murder, robbery and drug dealing have been convicted by a US federal jury. The leader of the Hobos, Gregory "Bowlegs" Chester and alleged hitman Paris Poe were among those found guilty of racketeering conspiracy. Prosecutors alleged the conspiracy involved nine murders in a decade punctuated by ruthless violence.

Alleged Hobos hitman, Paris Poe​

The verdict comes amid continuing concern at Chicago's murder rate. Officials say 762 people were killed in Chicago last year, far more than any other US city, with much of the violence attributed to gangs. Among the most vicious killings was that of government informant Keith Daniels, who was shot dead in front of his step-children and fiancee three years ago.

The court heard how Poe, wearing a mask and dress in black, shot Daniels more than dozen times outside his apartment. Poe was also alleged to have robbed NBA player Bobby Simmons at gunpoint outside a nightclub, making off with a $200,000 (£162,000) diamond and gold necklace. Prosecutors described how the gang gloried in extreme violence on Chicago's South Side, including the use of a hot iron to torture robbery victims. All six will be sentenced later this year and face possible life sentences.

Chicago gang violence: Six Hobos leaders convicted - BBC News

 

[EverCurious]

Semi-related:

Anchorage, Alaska had a rough year, 34 murders, it's insanely high, damn near the record for the state. Of course the entire state's been up in arms about the murder rate, railing about it constantly and so forth. I read an interesting tidbit though. Out of the 34 murders, only 4 went without an arrest. Report said that Chicago only arrests in 22% of murders. I was like WTF how can the folks of Chicago accept that?!?

 

[waltky]

Granny says she don't think even the wild, wild west was this wild...

Nearly 300 people Shot So Far in Chicago
January 30, 2017 - With two days to go in January, the number of shootings and homicides in the city is close to the entire first month of 2016.

A 3-year-old boy and an off-duty Cook County sheriff’s deputy were among 27 people shot across Chicago over the weekend, a drop from last weekend but enough to push the number of people hit by gunfire so far this year to nearly 300. With two days to go in January, the number of shootings and homicides in the city is close to the entire first month of 2016. Last year ended up being the most violent year in decades. As of Monday morning, 295 people had been shot in Chicago this month, two shy of the entire month last year, according to data kept by the Chicago Tribune. At least 52 homicides have been recorded, five fewer than all of January last year.

Chicago Police Department statistics are lower because they do not include shootings on expressways, police-involved shootings, homicides in which a person was killed in self-defense, or pending death investigations. But still, its numbers are close to last year too. As of Monday morning, the department had logged 49 homicides, one short of the 50 it recorded all of last January. The department did not provide statistics on the number of people shot so far this year, but instead it released figures on the number of “shooting incidents.” Those incidents could include more than one person shot. There have been 220 shooting incidents this month compared with 219 last January, the department said. A total of 231 incidents were reported for all of January last year.

Chicago Police guard the scene of a shooting involving multiple victims, including an off-duty police officer, inside a parking garage on the 1200 Block of North State Parkway​

The level of violence so far this year prompted President Donald Trump to tweet last week that he “will send in the Feds!” if the city doesn’t reduce it. By the end of the week, Police Department brass had come up with a plan to flood the city’s most violent neighborhoods with hundreds of extra officers over the weekend. The officers — assigned to tactical, gang, saturation and mission teams — saw their regular days off canceled from Friday through Sunday, according to police sources familiar with the change. The city’s beat officers also were given the option of earning overtime by working weekend days off, the sources said. Adding so many officers to the street on their days off is more typical during hot summer months or special occasions, such as when the president is visiting the city.

Shootings were down, but the weekend was not the least violent this month. The second weekend of the month saw only two killed and seven wounded. Over this past weekend, four people were shot to death and 23 people were wounded, according to Tribune data. The weekend was markedly colder than last weekend, when 54 people were shot, six of them fatally. There were seven attacks that wounded three or more people, according to police. This past weekend, a 3-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet in a Southwest Side home early Saturday when someone fired shots into the residence. A 23-year-old man was shot in the arm in the attack. Both were listed in good condition. Two hours earlier, an off-duty Cook County sheriff’s deputy was among three people shot in a nightclub district of the Gold Coast neighborhood. A person has been charged. Police have released no details about the shooting.

Nearly 300 people Shot So Far This Year in Chicago | Officer.com

See also:

Chicago Police Expand Tech to Curb Shootings
January 30, 2017 - Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Department commanders on Friday touted advances in technology that could help officers pinpoint gunfire instantly, part of their newest efforts to combat gun violence plaguing the city.

Putting a new spin on gunshot detection technology police have used on and off for years, 150 cellphones will be distributed to officers in the Englewood and Harrison districts equipped with apps that deliver shooting and incident information in real time. Police also announced the expansion of the ShotSpotter system and predictive data methods in the Englewood and Harrison districts, two of the city's highest crime areas. ShotSpotter now covers all portions of the Englewood and Harrison districts -- 13.5 square miles, city officials said. Police also expanded the footprint of the Police Observation Device cameras by 25 percent to try to work better with ShotSpotter.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Department commanders on Friday touted advances in technology that could help officers pinpoint gunfire instantly, part of their newest efforts to combat gun violence plaguing the city.​

The goals, Emanuel and police commanders said, is to respond swiftly to shootings and use neighborhood data to target problem areas and thwart violent crime. "Crime and violence presents a complex problem that has to be dealt with in complex ways," Emanuel said. Emanuel and the Police Department have been under fire for a dramatic increase in homicides and shootings in Chicago, after 2016 ended with 783 homicides, the most since 1996, according to data collected by the Tribune. As of Friday afternoon, there had been 42 homicides, according to Police Department statistics. Friday's news conference came three days after President Donald Trump called out the city for its violence, saying in a tweet he would "send in the Feds!" if Chicago cannot fix the problem.

ShotSpotter captures audio of gunfire and attempts to pinpoint its location, officials said. The technology will be integrated with districts' computerized map-based prediction tools, which the mayor and police commanders said will help reduce shootings. The new phones will be bought with donations from the Chicago Police Foundation and allow officers on patrol to receive alerts regarding possible gunfire, on the go. Police in the two districts have expanded the system to better record sounds throughout the neighborhoods. "I believe this is the most advanced platform of its kind in the country," said Jonathan Lewin, the Police Department's deputy chief for information technologies.

MORE

 

[waltky]

Chicago more violent than last year so far...

Chicago Violence Continues to Outpace 2016
February 28, 2017 - Four people were killed and 10 others were wounded over the weekend in Chicago as violence this year continues to outpace last year.

As of Monday morning, the city had logged 103 homicides, compared with 101 this time a year ago, according to data compiled by the Chicago Tribune. At least 513 people have been shot this year, compared with 466 over the same time last year. Homicides had been lagging behind last year, but that changed last week when the city experienced its deadliest day this year with seven people shot to death.

Chicago police investigate after a shooting at 6200 S. Rhodes on Feb. 25 in Chicago.​

Over the weekend, the city recorded its 100th and 101st homicides when shots were fired early Saturday at a house party in Woodlawn on the South Side. Samuel Head, 38, and Lance A. Jefferson, 20, were pronounced dead at the scene after someone inside the house on South Drexel Avenue opened fire, authorities said. Head was hit in the chest, and Jefferson was shot in the face and torso, police said. A 29-year-old woman was grazed in the thigh. Among those wounded over the weekend were two teens shot in separate attacks.

A 15-year-old boy was shot several times Sunday evening on South Mayfield Avenue, police said. He was taken in serious condition to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. Saturday morning, a 15-year-old girl was one of three people shot while in a black Toyota van on South Baldwin Avenue, police said. The girl was hit in the left buttock, and her condition was stabilized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Chicago Violence Continues to Outpace 2016 | Officer.com

 

[waltky]

Shotspotter and other technologies to solve Chicago's gun crime problem?...

Can technology solve Chicago's gun crime problem?
Fri, 03 Mar 2017 - US police have turned to technology to help fight crime, but can the solutions really solve the problem?

Chicago has one of the highest murder rates in the US, with 51 homicides in January alone. And President Donald Trump has threatened to "send in the Feds" if the "totally out of control" city cannot halt the "carnage". But, now, Chicago has spent $1m (£800,000) on ShotSpotter, installing hundreds of sensors in high-crime areas across two of its districts. And whenever a gun is fired, police officers are immediately given the exact location via a smartphone app. Nearly 100 US cities are now using ShotSpotter - but, despite its success, some remain unconvinced. Dover, the second largest city in Delaware, for example, has said the $195,000 annual cost could be better spent elsewhere. Quincy in Washington and Charlotte in North Carolina have also decided the technology is not for them.

In Chicago, there were 51 homicides in January 2017​

Serious criminals

But ShotSpotter chief executive Ralph Clark said some of the cities that have signed up have seen a 35% year-on-year drop in gunfire. "We are seeing thousands of incidents," he told the BBC. "These are not homicides or woundings, but they are still serious crimes. "These gunshots are not coming from thousands of people messing about, we are finding that it is from a few serious criminals - the authorised shooters in gangs who are using it to intimidate people, protect their turf." "The biggest lever in reducing gun violence is to de-normalise it, and people are now seeing the police respond to these incidents, and they can see that the police are serving and protecting their communities."

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/6989/production/_94771072_mediaitem94771071.jpg[img]
The police are sent real-time information about the exact location of gunfire [/center]

Heat list

Three years ago, Chicago made a $2m investment in a predictive policing algorithm, which calculated potential victims of gun crime based on two variables, including how many times they had been arrested with others who later became gun crime victims. Developed by the Illinois Institute of Technology, the system generates a heat list of people most likely to kill or be killed. But according to a recent report from non-profit organisation The Rand Corporation, the investment has had little effect and simply means those on the watch list are more likely to be arrested. The Chicago Police Department countered that the report did not represent the prediction model as it currently worked and denied the system was deficient.

[center][img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/9B29/production/_94912793_chicago_shotspotter_624.png
How ShotSpotter works​

Threat level

Fresno Police Department, in California, recently tested software known as Beware - which sifts through address-specific public data and individuals' public postings to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter - to alert first responders on the way to a 911 emergency call. The platform, built by security company Intrado, colour codes people's threat level as green, yellow or red. But one member of the city council told the Washington Post that his threat level was yellow, due to a previous occupant of his address. "Even though it's not me that's the yellow guy, your officers are going to treat whoever comes out of that house in his boxer shorts as the yellow guy," he said. The software proved too controversial, and in April the council decided not to renew its contract.

Chicago also invested in an algorithm that could spot potential victims or perpetrators​

Wicked problems

Rob Kitchin, an expert on smart cities from Maynooth University, Ireland, said: "There is this idea that technology can solve the problems of a city. "People are treating cities as if there are technical systems, and you can pull a data lever and it will steer a city. "But cities are much more complex - full of politics, culture, community, and wicked problems. "Cities have to look at the problem and decide what solution is best. "If it is technology, then great, but it could be economic investment or a change in social policy."

Can technology solve Chicago's gun crime problem? - BBC News

 

[Roudy]

Meh, culprits are black. Nothing to report on.

 

[Marianne]

Chicago Tribune

Local news only

Just a normal day in Chicago. They should try some gun control...oh wait...

 

[MaryL]

Let me see here, black lives MATTER, unless it's in Chicago and its black on black violence...WAIT WAIT, I am trying to do the basic math and add up all the facts here, standby...So racism is bad, but huge predominate black on black crime numbers are...wait, racism is bad, but HUGE PREDOMINATE black on black crime numbers, Sorry, I am stuck in a negative feedback loop, all I hear is the same old crap over and over again and it resolves nothing.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Chicago Tribune

Local news only

Damnit!

I had 18 in the pool!

 

[Borillar]

Chicago Tribune

Local news only

Damnit!

I had 18 in the pool!

Why don't you go to Chicago and shoot 3 more then?

 

[Fang]

Chicago Tribune

Local news only

Unless they are blacks shot by whites no one cares.

 

[Juicin]

yea violence in chicago has nothing to do with gun control (It's very easy to get a gun in Illinois, it's only a misdemeanor to have one unregistered, we don't have very strict gun control. Not to mention we border red states)

But if you think you have a right to a gun but I don't have a right to snort cocaine

You're the problem

The highest violence rates ever recorded in Chicago had nothing to do with black AMericans. And everything to do wtih alcohol prohibition and white on white bigotry.

Jews, Italians, Irish, and some germans killing each other over alcohol profits and other black markets.

Now black and latino men kill each over a different set of black markets because they couldn't find gainful employment somewhere else. I don't have an answer for discrimination, I do have an answer to remove incentive for violence.

The pattern is pretty fucking clear here. If you want this sort of obsene violence to come to a halt in major America cities. You have to give those people selling in the black market a way to enter the market above board. Where they can call police and use courts. Without it you'll get men in Chicago, Baltimore, NY, and LA killing each other because it's the only recourse they have in their "line of work"

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - ya can't have it both ways...

WH: Crime-Ridden Sanctuary City of Chicago Can’t Have It Both Ways: No Federal Funds for Situation They Created
March 31, 2017 | When asked whether President Donald Trump would still cut off law enforcement funds to the city of Chicago because it’s a sanctuary city even though it could hamper police from fighting violent crime, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said sanctuary cities can’t have it both ways - refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials and still expecting to get law enforcement grants to handle a situation they created.

“You can't be a sanctuary city and at the same time seem to pretend or express concern about law enforcement or ask for more money when probably a number of the funds that you're using in the first place are going to law enforcement to handle the situation that you’ve created for yourself,” Spicer said. As CNSNews.com previously reported, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this week that the Justice Department would not only block sanctuary cities from receiving future DOJ grants, it would recoup the federal funds it already sent to those jurisdictions. “Chicago gets about $12 million a year in law enforcement assistance from the federal government. Would President Trump cut off those funds due to the sanctuary city status even though it would greatly hamper the police fight against street violence, something the president has repeatedly said troubles him greatly?” a reporter asked.

“It's interesting, you talk about street violence and then we cut off the funding for sanctuary cities. I think it would be interesting to want to send more money to a city that is allowing people to come into the country who are breaking the law, who, in many cases, are committing crimes -- member of gangs,” Spicer said. “And so you can't be a sanctuary city and at the same time seem to pretend or express concern about law enforcement or ask for more money when probably a number of the funds that you're using in the first place are going to law enforcement to handle the situation that you’ve created for yourself,” he said. Spicer noted that the president’s belief on sanctuary cities is shared by “upwards of 80 percent of the American people” that U.S. taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund cities, counties and, in some cases, states that allow people illegally in this country to potentially do us harm.

Spicer said the president’s “intentions have been very clear from the beginning.” “I think it's vastly supported by the vast majority of the American people, but I think that to suggest that somehow they’re not inextricably linked is a failure to fully appreciate the scenario,” the press secretary said. “Does that mean the president is more interested in deporting illegal immigrants than he is with putting shooters and killers in jail?” the reporter asked. “No. Because if a shooter or killer is here illegally, and he’s in this country, then I think that -- again, I think, respectfully, you're delinking the two issues. If you have people who are in this country illegally that are part of a gang, that are ... a threat to public safety or committing a crime, then funding that activity and allowing that to fester is in itself a problem,” Spicer said, adding that “by not rooting that out in the first place is allowing the problem to continue and not exactly showing an attempt to solve it in the first place.”

WH: Crime-Ridden Sanctuary City of Chicago Can’t Have It Both Ways: No Federal Funds for Situation They Created

 

[DrainBamage]

Chicago Tribune

Local news only

Yeah strange how local news is only reported by a local newspaper.

I would expect the Atlanta Journal to report on local Chicago news, and vice versa.

 

[waltky]

52 people shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend...

Chicago sees 52 people shot over Memorial Day weekend
May 30, 2017 - The Windy City saw 52 people shot over the course of the Memorial Day weekend, resulting in seven dead and 45 wounded according to the Chicago Tribune. The number is actually down from year ago when 62 people were shot — six fatally — over the same weekend.

To combat the violence this year, Chicago police deployed 1,300 extra patrol officers over the weekend through early Tuesday. Those shot fatally this year include a 15-year-old boy killed about 6:30 p.m. Sunday in Lawndale during a neighborhood drive-by shooting, which also wounded a 16-year-old girl. An unnamed 18-year-old man was shot in the head an hour earlier at 5:40 p.m. on Sunday. Police pronounced him dead on the scene and said witnesses described an unknown man who fired multiple shots at the victim.

An unidentified 17-year-old boy was shot in the head by an unknown male assailant around 9:50 p.m. on Sunday. A second 17-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man, both unidentified, were shot as well. The two victims have been stabilized and are expected to survive. Oscar Clay, 52, was killed in a domestic-related shooting at 1:32 p.m. on Sunday after he got into an argument with an unidentified 27-year-old man who pulled out a handgun and shot Clay. Police have still not captured the shooter.

Tiara Goodman, 25, and an unidentified 32-year-old man were found around 10:50 a.m. on Sunday. Police said both Goodman and the man were shot in the head with a gun found on the scene, leading police to believe the deaths were a result of a murder-suicide. It was not clear which of the two was the alleged killer. At 2:45 a.m. Tuesday, an unidentified 21-year-old man was shot multiple times while he was sitting in his vehicle, hitting his back and heart. He was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Chicago Tribune reported that despite the violence occurring all over the city, Chicago’s Harrison District on the West Side, one of the city’s most violent police districts, saw zero shootings occur. This was a stark difference from last Memorial Day weekend when 21 people were shot.

First Deputy Superintendent Kevin Navarro told the Tribune that the lack of violence was a result of police proactivity and the placement of officers “in all the areas that we knew we should have them.” He also credited officers with talking to people on the streets instead of just responding to crimes over the radio. “I think the officers are out there doing a great job, also doing proactive stuff and interacting with the community, that’s a big thing,” Navarro said. Chicago is often hailed as one of the U.S.’s most violent cities, with 762 homicides in 2016 alone.

Chicago sees 52 people shot over Memorial Day weekend

 

[waltky]

Drug gangstas still killin' ever'body in Chicago...

Chicago Closes in On 500 Homicides for 2017
Sep 12, 2017 — At least 39 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, six of them fatally, as the city closes in on 500 homicides for the year, according to data kept by the Chicago Tribune.

The violence included a shooting in Roseland on the Far South Side that killed two women and a man. There were five other attacks with multiple victims. More than half the weekend’s shootings took place over 22 hours from Saturday morning to early Sunday. With the weekend toll, at least 2,651 people have been shot in Chicago this year, according to the Tribune’s data. There have been at least 485 homicides.

A Chicago police detective investigates the scene where a deceased male, 30, lies in an alley west of the 0-100 block of North Laramie Avenue Saturday, July 19, 2014, in Chicago.​

Both numbers are below last year at this time, when at least 3,021 had been shot and there had been at least 527 homicides. Violence last year reached levels not seen in two decades. Among those killed over the weekend was Dominic Morris, 30, Tyson White, 36, and a 26-year-old woman. They were standing near a parked car in Roseland when two gunmen opened fire, police said. All three died at the scene Saturday night.

About an hour later, 19-year-old Juan Flores was fatally shot by police about 12:50 a.m. Sunday on North Laramie Avenue on the Northwest Side, according to Chicago police. The officer opened fire after he was pinned by Flores’ car, police said. Early Saturday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, Carlos Cortez, 22, was killed in a rifle attack on South Seeley Avenue, according to police. Cortez was taking a child out of a car when the shooting took place. About 14 rifle shell casings littered the ground next to a silver Ford sedan, which had its windows shot out.

Chicago Closes in On 500 Homicides | Officer.com

 

[EverCurious]

We're sitting at 24 last I heard, and people are beside themselves about it. ( Sunday killing marks 2 dozen Anchorage homicides in 2017 ) We flipped out last year and made the APD bring back their gang and drug divisions because the numbers were absolutely unacceptable to us.

I cannot even fathom accepting the numbers of deaths Chicago has - we'd have the military folks vigilante patrolling the streets with those kinda numbers...