[Comprehensive News from Qiaobao.com] From Monday to Wednesday (12th to 14th), there are shooting cases every day in Chicago . Some people lament that Chicago has become "Gotham City" - Bat in DC Comics The "Crime City" where Batman is located, but there is no Batman in Chicago, and there are not even enough law enforcement officers. Local police data shows that the ratio of the number of local gangs to the number of police officers has reached 9:1.
" New York Post " (NY Post) reported that Chicago Police Chief David Brown said on the 13th that it was estimated that there were about 117,000 gang members in Chicago in the past year, belonging to 55 known gangs in the city. A gangster.
This number far exceeds the city's police force - there are approximately 13,000 police officers in Chicago.
The "Chicago Sun-Times" reported that a large number of police officers in the city have retired or resigned this year, which means that the 9:1 disparity in the number of gangsters and police officers will continue to widen.
Data from the Police Pension Board show that from January to June this year, 363 police officers left Chicago. If the trend continues in the second half of the year, the number of police retirements in the city may hit a new record this year.
According to previous reports, 560 people from the Chicago Police Department will retire in 2020, 475 people will retire in 2019, and 339 people will retire in 2018, which is an increasing trend year by year.
Councilmember Ray Lopez partly blamed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, criticizing her "anti-police rhetoric" for demoralizing the force. Lopez said many officers are choosing to retire early and transfer to other departments "because they feel unappreciated and under-respected in their hometown of Chicago."
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera called on Twitter (Twitter) on the 12th to work together from federal, state and local governments to maintain the city’s law enforcement force. Rivera said that the 9:1 ratio is a "miracle". The police force is so stretched, but the number of homicides in the city has not increased - according to Chicago Police Department statistics, there have been 382 homicides in the city so far this year There were 5 fewer cases than the same period last year.
But police department data also shows that as of June 27, 1,489 shooting incidents have occurred in Chicago this year, an increase of 12% from 1,333 in the same period last year. During the Independence Day celebration weekend (from the evening of July 2 to the early morning of July 5), multiple shooting incidents occurred in Chicago, resulting in a total of 14 deaths and 74 injuries. From Monday to Wednesday this week, gunfire rang out every day in the city, and the pressure on public security remained high. (End)
