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Buried in Democrat gun laws Chicago police express jubilation after more than 100 blacks shot in violent Fourth of July weekend

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Guns are not the problem.  Black behavior is the problem.  Until 
Democrats acknowledge it, this shit will happen.

The Chicago Police Department says it is conducting "a very 
comprehensive review" after the city experienced one of its most 
violent Fourth of July weekends in recent years, with at least 
102 people shot between late Friday afternoon and early 
Wednesday.

"We're doing a debriefing," said chief police spokesman Anthony 
Guglielmi. "The mood here is frustration."

The review will include an analysis of how "amateur fireworks" 
might have affected the ShotSpotter system, which captures audio 
of gunfire and attempts to pinpoint its location for quicker 
deployment of officers.  The system is deployed in the Englewood 
and Harrison districts, traditionally among the city's most 
violent.

"It's perplexing," Guglielmi said. "We deployed some very 
successful tactics over the Memorial Day weekend." Yet those 
same tactics did not seem to work as well over the Fourth 
holiday.

Fifteen people were killed and 87 others were wounded.  Nearly 
half the shootings occurred in the last 12 hours of the long 
holiday.

The last time the Fourth holiday spanned four full days was in 
2013, when July 4 fell on a Thursday and many people had Friday 
off.  At least 74 people were shot between Wednesday evening and 
early Monday that year, and 12 of them died, according to 
Tribune data.

The violence this year was largely confined to the South and 
West sides, where hundreds of officers on overtime were 
deployed.  The youngest person shot was a 13-year-old boy 
seriously wounded in Gage Park on Friday night. The oldest was a 
60-year-old man in the Lawndale neighborhood.

The weekend had been relatively calm when police Superintendent 
Eddie Johnson held a news conference early Tuesday afternoon and 
announced the arrests of 58 people on drug and gun charges  "to 
keep residents and visitors safe in every neighborhood."

But within hours, violence erupted in nearly every police 
district south of North Avenue, according to data kept by the 
Tribune.  At least 43 people were shot between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday 
and 3:30 a.m. Wednesday.  Only two of those 43 were shot north 
of Chicago Avenue.

As part of its review of what happened over the weekend, the 
department is looking at how fireworks may have interfered with 
the ShotSpotter system, a relatively new technology the 
department hopes to expand.

The spotters register a shooting and deploy cameras in the 
direction of the shots while officers are deployed.  Analysts at 
the district station look at the data in real time to decide 
what steps to take next.  Guglielmi called it "micro-deployment."

The department is also reviewing calls for service, particularly 
as the weekend ended.  "A lot of incidents happened in a short 
amount of time.  We're also looking at that.  We did typically 
see it (violence) where we typically see it."

A lot of the shootings appeared to be over "petty disputes that 
escalated into somebody pulling out a gun."  He mentioned some 
examples: A shooting in Smith Park that started as an argument 
over where people were sitting; a confrontation between a driver 
and bicyclists on State Street, with the driver getting a gun 
from his trunk and officers intervening.

He said a "handful" of shootings were "retaliatory .. People 
drinking all day and then things escalating ... It's just 
enormously frustrating."

A total of 1,300 extra officers were deployed over the long 
weekend through 6 a.m. Wednesday. The additional officers came 
from the summer mobile teams, organized crime units and area 
saturation teams.  "I don't think lack of resources was an 
issue."

A total of 159 guns were seized by Chicago police since Friday. 
"We have to change the underlying culture," Guglielmi said.

The weekend began with 19 people shot on Friday night and 23 on 
Saturday.  Sunday and Monday nights were both relatively quiet, 
by summer standards, with 17 people shot over the two days, 
according to Tribune data.

The Harrison District on the West Side, which had gone without 
any shootings over the Memorial Day weekend, recorded 14 people 
shot over the long Fourth weekend.

At one homicide scene in the district, onlookers peeked around 
the entrance to the Green Line station at Pulaski Road and Lake 
Street, trying to get a glimpse of the body of a man chased down 
and shot  early Wednesday.

The shooting happened on two sides of a popular West Side liquor 
store. Officers found shell casings and one man shot behind the 
store, next to an alley. The other wounded man fell face-up on a 
sidewalk underneath the elevated train tracks.

A garbage can fire burned as officers counted shell casings and 
draped tape from support pillars holding up the "L" tracks. A 
fire engine backed down the alley, and firefighters dumped the 
trash and pumped water from a tin can onto the smoldering waste.

Other scenes from the weekend

• The only shooting north of North Avenue happened about 50 
yards from the street that marks the West Side's northern edge.

A 56-year-old man died and a 19-year-old man was seriously 
wounded around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 1600 block of North 
Major Avenue -- the same block where an 8-year-old girl was shot 
last August. The house where the two men were shot was home to a 
young man killed last year around the corner. The older man was 
pronounced dead overnight at Loyola University Medical Center.

Tuesday night, a man approached the crime scene with a toddler, 
who seemed to be just learning to walk as she ambled ahead of 
him. An officer walked up to the little girl and gently turned 
her around, while another yelled at her father for walking under 
yellow tape officers had stretched across Major Avenue.

• Seven miles to the south, shortly before midnight, a woman 
searched the 1900 block of South Spaulding for shell casings by 
the light of her cellphone before officers arrived. Two people 
walked into St. Anthony's Hospital, a block from Mount Sinai 
Hospital, saying they had been shot there.

• Earlier Tuesday, officers found a woman shot on Roosevelt 
Road. She was in a silver car just east of Independence 
Boulevard and had been shot around the corner, on Lawndale 
Avenue. Every few minutes, officers found a few more shell 
casings, each a little farther from the alley south of Roosevelt.

• Police found a 42-year-old man in "extremely critical" 
condition on Laflin Street just south of 62nd Street, and he was 
later pronounced dead from gunshot wounds. Neighbors gathered on 
a front porch nearby and in a smaller group across the street, 
on church steps, while paramedics worked on the man. The 
ambulance left after a few minutes with a squad car in tow.

• Just before 3 a.m. Wednesday, police taped off Roosevelt Road 
because they found a person shot where the road intersects with 
Loomis Avenue in the University Village/Little Italy 
neighborhood. He had been shot about a block south on the 1300 
block of West 13th Street.

• A shooting in the 3400 block of West Grenshaw Street about 
10:15 p.m. left two men wounded. People nearby said they 
hesitated when they heard the gunfire but weren't certain 
because of the frequency of the fireworks. A woman, who 
neighbors said was the young man's grandmother, stepped to the 
ambulance to find out what happened.

"Right now, ma'am, he's worried about you. He's going to be OK, 
but he's worried about you," a paramedic told the woman. She 
stepped away, and the ambulance pulled off toward Mount Sinai 
Hospital.

"I can't go with him?" she asked.

Mount Sinai Hospital treated at least 22 of the 102 people shot 
over the weekend. At one point early Wednesday morning, five 
ambulances crowded into the emergency room's small ambulance bay 
and a Chicago police squad SUV sat parked nearby.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-
july-4-weekend-shootings-violence-20170705-story.html
   

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