A new report by the Anti-Defamation League found that racist propaganda campaigns and antisemitic acts more than doubled last year…
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One U.S. Attorney described Rudolph Acosta III “one of the most prolific and successful cooperators with our office” in the last decade.
This year, Chicago has recorded 779 shooting incidents and 194 homicides, compared to 898 shootings and 207 homicides during the same period in 2021.
Like many victim compensation funds, the Illinois program offers survivors and victim’s families up to $27,000 to cover expenses like medical and funeral costs. But families say they’re being left behind, and researchers uncovered that the average compensation is lower than ever.
Chicago police solved only 17 percent of homicide cases last year. The Chicago Tribune examines the challenges faced by police. Some 75 people were shot on the first weekend in August, but those cases have so far resulted only in two arrests.
More than 1,600 people in Chicago have been victims of nonfatal shootings this year. Based on data for recent years, fewer than 10 percent of incidents will result in arrests.
Chicago is flourishing economically but the wealth is not equally distributed and neither is crime. A dozen poor, minority neighborhoods account for half of the city’s shootings.
Violence in the Chicago’s troubled Englewood police district has dropped dramatically in 2017, with shootings falling 44 percent and homicides down 45 percent. It’s only one year, experts, cops and even residents caution. Still, it’s happening in Englewood, whose name has long been synonymous with violence, gang warfare, poverty and despair.
The president declined to identify a Chicago motorcycle cop he says told him on the campaign trail that “if they let us do our job we could stop [violent crime] immediately.” A spokesman says Mayor Rahm Emanuel is “all ears” to identify the officer.
After criticism of his initial comments on Charlottesville violence, the president retweeted a post on Chicago crime by conservative Jack Posobiec, which linked to a story from an ABC affiliate and read, “Meanwhile: 39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths. No national media outrage. Why is that?”