New year holiday shootings in Chicago frequently cause 6 deaths and 25 injuries

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China News Service, New York, January 3rd, Chicago, the third largest city in the United States, has frequent shootings during the 2022 New Year holiday , Resulting in 6 deaths and 25 injuries. Among the victims was a minor, which caused widespread concern.

According to the CBS report, from the evening of December 31 last year to the late night of January 2 this year, the Chicago Police Department reported more than 20 shootings. case. Although no mass shootings occurred, 31 people were killed or injured.

It is reported that a shooting that occurred in the Southern District of Chicago at 11:25 pm on the 2nd was extensively affected by the society due to the murder of minors. pay attention to. That night, a 12-year-old boy was sitting at the foot of the bed at home. He was shot in the chest and died after being sent to the hospital. Police records show that the gunman has a criminal record, but no more information was disclosed.

The Chicago Sun said that in the past year, the number of shootings in Chicago was as high as 3561, an increase of more than 300 from 2020 There were 1,415 incidents more than in 2019. In addition to shootings, statistics released by the Chicago Police Department on the 1st showed that there were 797 homicides in the city in 2021, the highest number of homicides since 1996. However, various departments in the city have been arguing over how to deal with the chaos of social security, and relevant measures have failed to effectively reduce the overall crime rate in the city.

In the past two years, the Chicago Police Department’s annual overtime expenditure has exceeded 15 million U.S. dollars, and the special expenditure on community anti-violent crimes has increased year by year. However, Areas with high crime rates in the city have become “increasingly dangerous.” At the end of December last year, Chicago Mayor Lightford called on the federal government to provide assistance to combat rampant criminal activities in the area. “We urgently need additional resources before the summer of 2022.”

According to data released by the US non-profit organization “Gun Violence Archives”, in the past 2021, a total of 44,700 people died from gun violence in the United States Among them, more than 20,600 people died of homicide, and about 24,000 people died of suicide. Among the dead, 1,533 were teenagers and children under the age of 18. (End)

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