Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago Sees 55% Rise in Homicides in 2020
Chicago has just concluded one of the most violent years in its history, with a massive increase in shooting incidents and homicides, Time magazine reports.

Chicago has just concluded one of the most violent years in its history, with a massive increase in shooting incidents and homicides, Time magazine reports.
There have been more than 3,300 shooting victims in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago thus far this year and there are still over two and half months until year’s end.
A man disguised in an Islamic hijab opened fire on the streets of Paris’s 12th arrondissement on Friday evening, in which investigators believe was a targetted attack.
An unnamed gunman killed a 62-year-old New Yorker who was walking his dog in Brooklyn on Monday morning, as rising shootings continue to plague the Big Apple.
On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) New York City passed the grim milestone of 1,000 shootings so far this year.
Swedish economist Tino Sanandaji has revealed that while the number of reported crimes in Sweden has remained fairly steady, the severity of crimes and criminal violence has surged in the 21st century.
A Swedish police officer has claimed that the gang members who shot a 12-year-old girl caught in their crossfire last weekend are also victims.
A 12-year-old Swedish girl was killed over the weekend while walking her dog by alleged gang members as one criminologist has warned Sweden is becoming like the “Wild West”.
Five men were shot during three separate shootings across London, and in the early hours of Sunday, four men were stabbed during what is believed was a street brawl in High Holborn.
Police have arrested three suspects who belong to the Hells Angels gang and charged them on Tuesday for allegedly killing a rival gang leader in May.
Shootings in New York City, New York have surged 220 percent compared to the same week last year while other violent crimes have increased as well.
The husband and son of federal judge Esther Salas were shot at their New Jersey home Sunday afternoon, sparking a massive law enforcement response.
Americans are seeking homes outside of the cities in the aftermath of riots, looting, police defunding campaigns, resurgent crime, and months-long lockdowns
More than two dozen shootings across New York City over the weekend left a one-year-old dead and at least 34 others injured, some potentially fatally, dwarfing the number of people killed there by the coronavirus during the same period.
At least six children ranging from ages 6 to 14 have been killed in shootings across the country over Fourth of July weekend.
Close to 300 New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have filed for retirement over the last month amid riots against the police and as violent crime keeps surging.
The movement to defund, abolish, and weaken law enforcement embraced by Democrats and their media enablers is recipe for disaster, most especially in predominantly black neighborhoods.
Reports indicate that shootings in New York City surged this week following the NYPD’s decision to disband its plainclothes anti-crime unit.
Police officers in the United States have been killed feloniously every year at similar rates to unarmed suspects who were killed each year by law enforcement, federal data shows.
A man accused of shooting a Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer in the South Austin neighborhood of the city has been charged with attempted murder.
While some crime has gone down significantly since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in Sweden, gang shootings have actually increased since last year.
Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg lectured Americans on Friday for the level of gun violence in the United States, suggesting that God was judging them for their failures.
We are seeing the right of each state to make its own decisions—for better or for worse, as the case might be—as enshrined in our founding document, the U.S. Constitution.
The December 29, 2019, Texas church shooter has been identified as a 43-year-old man who allegedly wore a disguise, “including a fake beard,” into the church.
The man who shot and killed the White Settlement, Texas, church shooter on December 29, 2019, says, “I feel like I killed evil.”
The Naval Air Station Pensacola attack reminded us once more that gun-free policies on military installations make U.S. troops sitting ducks.
The individual who attacked Naval Air Station Pensacola hosted a party to watch videos of mass shootings before the incident, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
The number of people in Sweden treated for gunshot wounds soared 20 per cent in 2018 and has more than doubled compared to 2012.
The majority of the suspects in shootings in the city of Malmö come from migration backgrounds, according to a report from Swedish media.
Swedish lawyer Henrik Olsson Lilja, who initially represented U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky, was shot in the head and chest after leaving a residential building in Stockholm.