Shootings by Chicago cops on rise in 2011, but why?

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/6650643-418/shootings-by-chicago-cops-on-rise-in-2011-but-why.html

BY FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter/[e-mail] July 23, 2011 12:10AM

Chicago Police officers have shot 40 people this year, nearly as many as in all of 2010.

No one knows for sure why police-involved shootings are up.

But Officer Danny O’Toole — who killed a suspect in 2009 and was wounded in a shootout just two weeks later — thinks he knows why.

“The younger generation is brazen, they just don’t care,” he said. “It’s ‘shoot at the police and make my escape.’ And we shoot back.”

Police point to statistics that show aggravated assaults and batteries on police officers have risen from 739 in 2000 to 1,789 last year.

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1. Lot of reasons....Just think about it

People are broke, they are feeling desperate, many are homeless and hungry. Then we have politicians talking crazy shit ex....Palen...then to we have more guns on the street thank you NRA..Read an interesting story in our local paper yesterday about two ladies going in to Kroger and walking out with over $700 in groceries, when questioned why they said the food was needed to feed their families....