May 26, 2019 – In Breaking News – Fox News
Chicago saw its deadliest Memorial Day weekend for gun violence since 2015, a jarring reminder that even a coronavirus pandemic and a statewide stay-at-home order cannot halt shootings in the city.
“The violence throughout the city on Memorial Day weekend was nothing short of alarming,” Chicago police Superintendent David Brown told the media Tuesday after the first major test of his tenure as the city’s top officer ended with 49 people being shot, 10 of them fatally.
The weekend highlighted that even as the pandemic has many people staying home, homicides in the nation’s three largest cities have been on the rise.
(Mayor Lori Lightfoot gave a blunt assessment of anti-violence tactics used over a Memorial Day weekend in Chicago where 49 people were shot and 10 died: “it was a fail.” Courtesy of WGN News and YouTube. Posted May 26, 2020.)
According to Chicago police crime statistics posted online, between Jan. 1 and May 24, the nation’s third-largest city had 200 homicides, compared with 176 during the same period last year.
The number of shootings climbed from 679 to 826.
However, the number of criminal sexual assaults, burglaries and thefts all fell by double digits.
The statistics largely mirror what police in Los Angeles and New York have reported. In both cities, the number of homicides has increased so far this year while the number of sexual assaults has fallen.
The 10 homicides in Chicago that happened from Friday evening to early Tuesday morning were more than the city has seen for the same holiday weekend of the last four years, according to data maintained by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.
In 2015, 12 people were killed over the holiday weekend.
Brown, who was sworn in as police chief last month, said most of this weekend’s violence involved rival gangs and clashes over the sale of illegal drugs.
(Despite a statewide stay-at-home order, this Memorial Day weekend turned out to be the most violent the city of Chicago has seen since 2015. Courtesy of CBS Chicago and YouTube. Posted on May 25, 2020.)
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