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Highest in 25 Years: Cook County Saw 1,087 Homicides in 2021, 836 of Which Happened in Chicago

On the bright side, Chicago had its lowest amount of burglaries since the 1960s!
Posted by Mary Chastain Monday, January 3, 2022 at 07:00pm 40 Comments

   

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s (CCME) officer recorded 1,087 homicides in 2021, 836 of which happened in Chicago.

Gun-related homicides made up 1,002 of those homicides.

The CCME has not handled this many cases since 1994:

    Blacks accounted for 80 percent of the county’s homicide victims, with Latinos accounting for more than 14 percent of county-wide homicide deaths in 2021. Men accounted for 88 percent of the county’s homicide victims.

    In 2021, 86 homicides were recorded with victims under the age of 18. Of those, 12 were under the age of 10.

The Chicago Police Department said 797 were killed in the city. The number did not include those killed on the expressways since the Illinois State Police handles those crimes.

But when you include those homicides the number goes up to 836. Chicago saw 4,300 gunshot victims. The number includes those who died and were wounded.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/highest-in-25-years-cook-county-saw-1087-homicides-in-2021-836-of-which-happened-in-chicago/

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Wanna know why Lightfoot isn't too concerned about the skyrocketing death rate in Chicago?  Because all those dead people go from being unreliable democrat party voters who have to be cajoled with payoffs and driven to the polling place, and reminded, frequently, to go vote, to the most reliable of voters who never have to be paid off, never miss a vote (some of them vote repeatedly, in the same election, even), and will never rat her out.

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Beetlejuice should be proud, under her administration homicides for one year have eclipsed what it took fours years during prohibition to achieve, by over a hundred!

According to the Chicago Crime Commission (CCC), 729 people were slain gangland style in Cook County, IL during the Prohibition Era from 1919 to 1933.


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Some common sense to lessen crime

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Spiraling Violence in Chicago: Causes and Solutions
For several years prior to 2020, violent crime in America’s major cities was on the decline. But since the riots that summer following the death of George Floyd, it is heading in the opposite direction.

Murders nationwide in 2020 rose a stunning 29.4 percent over the previous year, the largest annual increase since the FBI began tracking that data in the 1960s. The number of murders in Chicago climbed even more sharply, rising 55 percent. It was as if a switch had been flipped. At least ten major U.S. cities hit new murder highs in 2021, but Chicago led the way with 797, the city’s highest number in 25 years.

Chicago’s violent crime epidemic is not limited to murder. The city’s 3,561 shooting incidents in 2021 were up 63 percent over 2019. Expressway shootings in Chicago-Cook County rose even more dramatically, from 51 in 2019 to 130 in 2020 to 273 in 2021. These expressway shootings pushed Chicago’s actual 2021 murder total north of 800.

Expressway killings aren’t counted in the official city numbers because expressways are under state jurisdiction. But try telling that to Chicagoans. “It’s almost like a modern, 21st century form of dueling,” said Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly. “[People get into fights with] each other on social media, they threaten one another and they say . . . ‘Let’s take this out to the expressway.’”

One of Chicago’s expressway murder victims was a dearly loved wife, mother, grandmother, and special education teacher named Denise Huguelet. Sixty-seven years old, she was being driven home from a White Sox game last summer when she became collateral damage in a shootout on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Then there are the carjackings, 1,836 of them in Chicago in 2021—a 204 percent increase over 2019. One victim was a Democratic state senator. Her husband had a gun and returned fire. In another incident, a Cook County judge had to pull her three-year-old son to safety before the carjackers drove off.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/spiraling-violence-chicago-causes-solutions/
Interesting that the crime in Chicago is even worse as Expressway killings are not included although within city limits as it is a state reported crime.
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