Chicago Police Stops Down By 90 Percent As Gun Violence Skyrockets

CHICAGO (DNA Info) — Police stops in Chicago are down nearly 90 percent as the Chicago Police Department continues to struggle with bad morale and incessant violence.From the start of the year to last week, police made only 20,908 recorded investigative stops, said Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago Police Department spokesman. Over the same period last year, there were 157,346 recorded stops.

…At the same time, shootings across the city are up 80 percent, a DNAinfo Chicago analysis found. In 650 shootings so far this year, 123 people have been killed and 652 wounded. County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez has warned the city is on track to have 700 murders this year.

The Tribune reports similar numbers:

Chicago off to deadliest start in nearly two decades

(Tribune) – As the first quarter of 2016 nears an end, violence in Chicago has reached levels unseen in years, putting the city on course to top 500 homicides for only the second time since 2008.

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.

That’s even with the “massaging” of the numbers, where cases like the guy who died from getting decapitated with a coal-powered chainsaw (with defensive wounds to the hands) are counted as suicides.

I know this isn’t the medium to post but yesterday a cfd truck company on a well being check found a male who had been decapitated with a electric chainsaw and he has his hands on the blade like he was trying to block it.he was found on his back so it was obvious he was trying to resist, no mention in the news or blogs but OT was an obvious message to be sent

Maybe Chicago Police on TV will have an upcoming episode about this case…

Meanwhile, Hey Jackass reports significantly higher numbers.

Shot & Killed: 132
Shot & Wounded: 685
Total Shot: 817
Total Homicides: 150

It’s not just homicides and shootings.  All manner of violent crime is through the roof in Chicagoland.

What else is going on in Chicago?

Well, the thug culture is going strong, along with the “snitches get stitches” mindset.