Chicago: One hundred people – including two police officers – shot in Chicago during the fourth weekend of July, including 18 murders, the city police department on Tuesday.
Among those who were injured at least a dozen children.
None of them died on Tuesday morning, but at least three minors were in critical condition.
The bloodshed was proportional to the fourth weekend of July last year, when 17 people were shot fatally and 70 more injured.
A seven-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy was among the dead weekend.
Police Inspector David Brown has blamed many pistol violence in the court system that allows people to be charged with violent crimes, including murder, to be released from electronic monitoring detainees.
“The court released people who were charged back to the community …
Creating an unsafe environment for all of us,” Brown said at a press conference.
Brown has been under pressure for the crime of violence that rose dramatically in 2020 compared to the previous year and showed a slight increase as far as this year.
Even before the weekend vacation, the department said in the first six months of this year there were 332 murders compared with 338 for the same period last year and that there were more victims of shootings and shooting incidents than during the same six-month period last year.
He took Tuesday where he left last week when he was called before the city council explained the strategy of his crime battle in front of what was traditionally one of the most cruel weekends this year.
As he did in the appearance of the city council, Brown defended his department, including in his briefing to reporters that his officers had restored 244 illegal weapons during a long weekend.
“Strategy-wise, we do our part,” he said.