Following on Tuesday's "New Chicago Mayor's First Memorial Day Weekend: 12 Killed, 49 Wounded".
From ABC News 7, May 31:
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed for the first time a surge in deadly gun violence in Chicago following the Memorial Day weekend.
Fifty-three people were shot, 11 fatally, over the holiday weekend.
"What we saw this weekend was a manifestation of community disinvestment, poverty, trauma that our city has struggled with far too long," Johnson said....
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The TV station's numbers may be in error. We rely on Hey Jackass!* who have shown themselves to be the statistical standard against which all others are compared.
There was one non-shooting homicide in the Hey Jackass! tally and the final count for the wounded was bumped up to 50.
As noted in our earlier post, the political machine from whence sprang Mayor Johnson has controlled the mayor's office for the last 92 years.
Maybe 91 years too long.
The Wall Street Journal story was dripping with disdain:
Another Shoot-’em-Up Memorial Day Weekend in Chicago
The city’s new mayor attributes shootings to the ‘trauma’ of disinvestment....The country shrugged because, well, this is Chicago, and if the new mayor doesn’t care, why should anyone else?...
We compile our own dataset using the following sources: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Homicide Watch Chicago (no longer updated), DNAInfo Chicago (out of business), Chicago Redeye Homicide Tracker (long gone), NBC5 Chicago, Chicago Tribune’s Shooting Tracker (no longer updated) & Homicide Tracker (declared dead), Sun-Times Homicide Tracker, Cook County Medical Examiner, CPD’s Historical Data Set, City of Chicago Data Portal, Chicago Police Department Arrest Record Search, CPD CLEARMAP, Various CPD Dashboards, ISP Expressway Shooting Dashboard, CPD’s Media Major Incident Notifications and the needlessly woke Chicago Violence Reduction Dashboard.
Community areas and neighborhoods are determined by Crimeisdown.com’s most excellent Incident Map or the Chicago Tribune’s Boundaries App.
Editor’s note: All murders are homicides, but not all homicides are murders. We count
Editor’s note: All murders are homicides, but not all homicides are murders. homicides, whereas the CPD counts murders. A homicide, or a non-fatal shooting, regardless of type or by whom, within the city limits of Chicago counts towards our total metric, including anything on the expressways. CPD-involved, ISP-involved and justifiable homicides all count. Reckless homicides may count if the Medical Examiner rules that the cause of death was a homicide. Suicides do not count. Additional definitions can be found on the Glossary page.
