Chicago Police are Better at Surveilling Law Abiding People than Protecting Them: 109 shot, 19 Fatally Last Weekend as Cops Set Records for Unlawful Stops and Searches of Black People in Liberal City

July 11, 2024 Tron Nick

Study: Black Chicagoans are 20X more likely to be homicide victims as Arrest Rate Hits Low. Cops Fail to Protect but Fill the Jails w/Blacks who Possess Guns for Self-Defense in Unsafe Liberal City

ACLU says Pervasive Mass Traffic Stops are "Urgent Problem" in Chicago as Cops Arbitrarily Interfere w/Black Peoples Freedom of Movement. An Increase of 90,000 to 500,000 Stops a Year from 2016-2023

Yet, in reality, crime data demonstrates that police don’t protect Black and Latino people and are not really involved in ‘police work’ in our communities.

Still No Charges in Chicago Cops' Massacre of Dexter Reed, Shot 96X After Unlawful Stop. Amended Complaint says Cops Continued Shooting Unarmed Black Man as he Exited Car and as He Laid in the Street

From [HERE] One hundred and nine people were shot, 19 fatally, in gun violence across Chicago from midnight Wednesday to midnight Monday during the extended Fourth of July holiday weekend, police said.

CPD Supt. Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson both called for accountability for those responsible for the shootings during a press conference on Monday.

"This is a choice. The choice to kill. The choice to kill women, the choice to kill children, the choice to kill the elderly. These are choices that the offenders made and they calculated," Johnson said. "We are holding every single individual accountable for the pain and from the torment that they have caused in this city."

Snelling said adjustments were made after the Fourth of July heading into the weekend, including canceling officers' days off, but ultimately, he said, they need communities to come forward. [MORE]