For August in Chicago , more than 300 people were wounded in the shootings. In addition, the city has undergone, at least 52 murders.
This was reported in the police Department of the city.
However, according to the police, even such sad statistics is better than last year. Compared to August 2016 the number of shootings in Chicago declined to 45.4%, while the number of murders – by 47.4%.
As reported Chicago Sun-Times 2016 th year was one of the bloodiest for the largest city of Illinois for twenty years. Then it was wounded more than 4,300 peopleand killed about 800!
From the beginning of 2017 in Chicago, 2500 people were injured during the shooting, and the murder rate is 470.
As of late August, officers of the Chicago police Department seized more than 6100 units of illegal weapons.
«While we certainly can’t call this a victory and progress in reducing violence in August was significant,» said first assistant chief of the city police Department, superintendant Kevin Navarro. «And this is largely the merit of the dedicated staff of the Chicago police Department, which have strengthened the work in our most «active» areas,» added Navarro.
