Chiraq’s bloody streets are, somehow, only getting bloodier. According to shocking new data released by the Chicago Sun-Times , more people were shot in the 16 beats composing the Central, Near North, and Near West police districts in any year since 2016. In fact, the number of shooting victims in the first ten months of this year alone, 77, is over triple what it was in all of 2019.
More specifically, the Chicago-Sun Times has this to say :
In just the Central police district — which includes much of the downtown business district — the total number of shootings and total shootings per 1,000 residents has shot up nearly 220% since 2019 — by far the largest increase in any police district in the city.
The Near North district, which includes parts of downtown and also Lincoln Park, saw the second-highest rise in shootings in that time — […]
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