25 shot in multiple-victim shootings over 2.5 hours in Chicago

[left-of-center2012]

At least 41 people were shot from 11 a.m. Saturday through Sunday morning, four fatally, police said.

Resources at local hospitals were taxed as victims and their families poured in. Access to Stroger Hospital was tightened. At one point, more than 200 people had converged on the hospital. Mount Sinai Hospital had to stop accepting new emergency cases for a while.

About 15 were in their teens. One victim was 11. In the shooting in Gresham, seven of the victims were 21 or younger.

One man stood by himself, leaning his back against a chain-link fence on the north side of 16th Street, watching police work the large crime scene to his east. He commented on the brazenness of shootings he’s grown accustomed to.
“If they shoot you, they don’t even run,” he said. “They just walk away, they ain’t trying to run.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chicago-shootings-violence-20180804-story.html

[Tipperary]

1. There was another thread about this earlier. I do not believe it got much attention.

I doubt this one will either. Not a topic du seems to care too much about. Wonder why?

[matt819]

5. What would have them respond?

Gun control?

Race?

Ineffective government?

Ineffective police?

It’s not an unsolvable problem, though no administration in Chicago or Illinois have managed to do so in decades. So we on DU should do what? Rage? Send thoughts and prayers? Demand action? From whom? Call in the national guard?

[Tipperary]

6. Great question. What is the city government doing there?

Not a damn thing.

[VMA131Marine]

2. 320 homicides in Chicago so far this year

Which extrapolates to 548 for the whole of 2018. There were 650 homicides within the city limits in 2017. While this was a horrible 2.5 hour period the overall trend for the year looks like an improvement.

NYCs murder rate is up slightly over last year but even so it looks like there will be fewer than 320 homicides for all of 2018 based on the current rate.

[ananda]

3. Now it's 59 shot, 8 dead -- gangland stuff

Here's the kicker: nobody is in custody yet!

[nycbos]

4. People are probably too afraid to speak out.

[Tipperary]

7. Yeah, a six year old was killed last year if I remember correctly, but hey...

“Snitches get stitches” - what a great community.

[nycbos]

9. And all the decent people caught in the middle of the mess.

[Roland99]

8. When is Rahm going to take charge?