The City of Chicago hit a deadly milestone over the Labor Day weekend — the 500th homicide of the year.
And with that tragic tally, the Windy City has
now logged more homicides than New York City and Los Angeles combined —
and is on pace to reach a homicide level not seen since the 1990s, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday.
Don't blame the cops, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said outside police headquarters Tuesday.
"It's not a police issue, it's a society issue,"
Johnson said after a Labor Day weekend during which 65 people were
shot, 13 of them fatally. "Impoverished neighborhoods, people without
hope do these kinds of things. You show me a man that doesn't have hope,
I'll show you one that's willing to pick up a gun and do anything with
it."
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