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The defund the police movement is alive and well in Chicago.\u00a0 The first weekend in August was a bloody one in the windy city, as reported<\/a> by the Sun Times, with 27 shootings and seven fatalities.\u00a0 Among the victims was an 8-year-old girl playing in front of her house.\u00a0 The suspect, who was tackled and held for police by the girl’s father, walked up and intentionally shot the child in the head.\u00a0 She died.\u00a0 A 14-year-old boy is in critical condition with two gunshot wounds in the head from a Saturday night shooting.\u00a0 Among the other victims was a 35-year-old man shot while sitting in his home.\u00a0 The Chicago Police Department has lost 1,700 officers since Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office in 2019.\u00a0 Newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson has no plan to add more officers.\u00a0 Arrests in the city have dropped by 50% since 2019 and a suspect is arrested in only 5% of non-fatal shootings.\u00a0 Amid this bloodletting, uber-liberal Illinois Governor J.D. Pritzker is busy virtue-signaling, signing a new law that mandates the hiring of non-citizens as police officers.\u00a0 How bad does it have to get before state voters start electing people committed to cracking down on criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The defund the police movement is alive and well in Chicago.\u00a0 The first weekend in August was a bloody one in the windy city, as reported by the Sun Times, with 27 shootings and seven fatalities.\u00a0 Among the victims was an 8-year-old girl playing in front of her house.\u00a0 The suspect, who was tackled and held for police by the girl’s father, walked up and intentionally shot the child in the head.\u00a0 She died.\u00a0 A 14-year-old boy is in critical condition with two gunshot wounds in the head from a Saturday night shooting.\u00a0 Among the other victims was a 35-year-old man shot while sitting in his home.\u00a0 The Chicago Police Department has lost 1,700 officers since Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office in 2019.\u00a0 Newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson has no plan to add more officers.\u00a0 Arrests in the city have dropped by 50% since 2019 and a suspect is arrested in only 5% of non-fatal shootings.\u00a0 Amid this bloodletting, uber-liberal Illinois Governor J.D. Pritzker is busy virtue-signaling, signing a new law that mandates the hiring of non-citizens as police officers.\u00a0 How bad does it have to get before state voters start electing people committed to cracking down on criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nAnother Summer Weekend in Chicago: 27 Shot, Seven Dead - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9390\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Summer Weekend in Chicago: 27 Shot, Seven Dead - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The defund the police movement is alive and well in Chicago.\u00a0 The first weekend in August was a bloody one in the windy city, as reported by the Sun Times, with 27 shootings and seven fatalities.\u00a0 Among the victims was an 8-year-old girl playing in front of her house.\u00a0 The suspect, who was tackled and held for police by the girl’s father, walked up and intentionally shot the child in the head.\u00a0 She died.\u00a0 A 14-year-old boy is in critical condition with two gunshot wounds in the head from a Saturday night shooting.\u00a0 Among the other victims was a 35-year-old man shot while sitting in his home.\u00a0 The Chicago Police Department has lost 1,700 officers since Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office in 2019.\u00a0 Newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson has no plan to add more officers.\u00a0 Arrests in the city have dropped by 50% since 2019 and a suspect is arrested in only 5% of non-fatal shootings.\u00a0 Amid this bloodletting, uber-liberal Illinois Governor J.D. 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