Report: Chicago shootings leave 9 dead, 28 wounded over the weekend

By: Casey Glynn
Topics: Daily Blotter

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(CBS) CHICAGO - Nine people died and another 28 were wounded after another bloody weekend of gun violence in the Windy City, reports CBS Chicago.

Chicago police also arrested more than 300 people, most of whom they say are gang members, and seized more than 100 weapons in a city-wide drug bust, the station reports.

According to the station, Police Supt. Garry McCarthy announced the weekend drug crackdown aimed at reducing drug-related gang violence, and said that news reports tallying murders and shootings in Chicago could be exaggerating the city's violence problems.

McCarthy reportedly said that although the city's murder rate is up about 30 percent compared to last year, the murder rate was much higher earlier in the year, proving anti-gang strategies have been working to cut down on violence.

While Chicago police are trying to stem the surge of shootings in the city, an analysis shows that they often get little help from victims.

The Chicago Tribune reports that investigators have suspended nearly 80 percent of their investigations into nonfatal shootings in Chicago because the victims wouldn't cooperate. The newspaper reviewed more than 1,100 cases through the first seven months of the year.

Chief of Detectives Thomas Bryne says it's frustrating that there's still a "no-snitch" code at work.

The Tribune reports that records show that 75.9 percent of the cases the newspaper examined were classified as "suspended" because the victims wouldn't cooperate with police. An additional 4.4 percent were cases in which police had identified a suspect but the victims wouldn't help with the prosecution.

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by Unsilent_Majority August 28, 2012 10:25 AM EDT

A typical weekend in Chicago. The fact that 9 were killed and 28 wounded doesn't seem to be making national headlines. But if those 9 dead and 28 wounded were all innocents sitting in a crowded theater and shot but some whack-jon with a legally purchased gun, the media would run the story for weeks, if not longer.

The truth is, as tragic as the Colorado shooting was, those type occurences are rare. But what happend in Chicago this weekend is not rare, it's actually normal...violence fueled by drugs an illegal guns. Drugs and illegal guns are where are efforts ought to be.

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by dynamud August 28, 2012 11:35 AM EDT: wow this is so true!


by Martha12345 August 28, 2012 8:44 AM EDT: Rahm is doing a "bang up" job in Chicago. This center of democratic party inbreeding is a sink hole and has been one for many years.; Reply to this comment


by sweetcakesmaria August 27, 2012 6:56 PM EDT: The Government is discussing means to intervene to stop the level of violence in Syria when they should be discussing means to end the gang warfare in Chicago. Chicago is a prime example of what illicit drugs can do to a State.; Reply to this comment