Rut row! The Ferguson Effect is in full swing in Chicago, with 57 homicides this past month. It stands as the deadliest January in at least 16 years, and perhaps ever.
301 people have been shot.
This is what happens when police contacts in the first weeks of the new year are down 80%. And arrests in the entirety of Cook County are down 70%. Look for more of the same until and unless these prosecutors get serious about putting bad people away for extended terms. Playing Patty-Cake with violent criminals willing to use guns and shoot at people doesn’t work. It only emboldens them.
Chicago Tribune counts it as 50 dead, but we’d go with Hey Jackass and their 57. Hey Jackass has them all listed.
Two hours into 2016, DeAndre Holiday, a 24-year-old father of three, became another sad statistic of Chicago’s runaway violence, fatally shot in the chest as he left a New Year’s Eve party in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side.
In the weeks since, the tally of those killed has hit 50, making January the deadliest start to a year in Chicago in at least 16 years.
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