8/2/2021- 10:00 p.m.
Chicago– The declaration comes following another violent weekend across Chicago in which 51 people were shot, eight fatally.
Numbers unveiled by Chicago police on Monday show that shootings across the city are on the rise.
“Gun recovery is 28% higher than last year and gun arrests are 22% higher than last year.”
“We are on pace to have 12,000 guns recovered in the city, which would be a historic high,” Chicago police Supt. David Brown said.
Getting illegal guns off the streets remains a top priority for the Chicago Police Department.
Statistics show there have been close to 2,500 people shot in the city so far this year.
In July, there were 105 murders in Chicago, compared to 107 in July of last year. “We’re pretty flat on homicides for the year. Slightly down for the month of July,” Brown said.
At face value, that might look like a tiny bit of progress, but if you consider 2019, there were 44 murders in July of that year.
During the first seven months of 2021, there were 445 murders and 446 in the same period of 2020. But back in 2019, there were 290. So in two years, the numbers have gone up by just over 53%, crime data shows.
