Shootings Are Down
Posted on May 21, 2015
We’re constantly told how crime is at its lowest level since Potawatomi Chief Blackbird reclassified killing Fort Dearborn civilians from casualties of war to workplace violence. However, one stat that has fallen no matter who is doing the counting is the number of people shot by the CPD:
“Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy credited better training and supervision as well as restraint by officers Wednesday for police-involved shootings plummeting so far this year.
Through Tuesday, officers fired their weapons at people on 10 occasions, down sharply from 18 over the same period last year and 25 in both 2013 and 2012, according to department statistics.
Of those 10 police-involved shootings this year, people were shot in half of them, one fatally, McCarthy said. The department released comparable numbers for only 2011, saying at the same point in the year police had shot at 37 people, striking 21 of them, nine fatally.”
That’s good news for a number of different reason, but on the flip side the number of non-police people shooting other non-police people has jumped nearly 18% since last year. And that would be bad news.
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