Chicago hasn't seen a homicide rate like this since the 90's

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American Thinker:

March 31, 2016

Chicago hasn't seen a homicide rate like this since the 90's

By Rick Moran

Since the beginning of the year, the city of Chicago has experienced 135 homicides, a 71% increase over the same period last year. This puts the city on pace for more than 500 homicides for the year - a figure topped only once since 2008.

 

Chicago Tribune:

 

As of 6 a.m. Wednesday homicides totaled 135, a 71 percent jump over the 79 killings in the same year-earlier period, official Police Department statistics show. That represented the worst first quarter of a year since 136 homicides in 1999, according to the data.

 

Shootings have jumped by comparable numbers as well. As of Wednesday, at least 727 people had been shot in Chicago so far this year, a 73 percent rise from 422 a year earlier, according to a Tribune analysis of department data

[RandyM]

When criminals are the only ones with guns.....

[clearvision]

Put the cops in "handcuffs" and this is what you get.