{"id":1127894,"date":"2021-12-17T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1127894"},"modified":"2021-12-17T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:58:44","slug":"over-800-homicides-year-to-date-in-mayor-lori-lightfoots-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-800-homicides-year-to-date-in-mayor-lori-lightfoots-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 800 Homicides Year-to-Date in Mayor Lori Lightfoot&#039;s Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fover-800-homicides-year-to-date-in-mayor-lori-lightfoots-chicago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1127894&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">There have been over 800 homicides at this point in 2021 in Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s (D) Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2021\/12\/16\/22840108\/800-homicides-crime-violence-shooting\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;the city hit the figure of 800 homicides on Tuesday, when 23-year-old&nbsp;Sheridan Freeman was shot dead inside a home in West Pullman.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>By Thursday, WBEZ Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/stories\/chicago-has-exceeded-800-homicides-in-2021\/f5518836-b3a2-490f-8cf3-ca503b6640ba\">noted<\/a>&nbsp;the number of homicides in the city was at 812 for the year.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago has long had a problem with gun crime and the vast majority of this year\u2019s homicide victims were killed with guns.<\/p>\n<p>For example, HeyJackass.com <a href=\"https:\/\/heyjackass.com\/\">lists<\/a> 776 people shot and killed in Chicago this year and another 4,403 shot and wounded.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>At least 11 people have been shot and killed this week alone in the troubled city.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17216466\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/07\/AP_21141028634703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17216466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP_21141028634703-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>People gather to protest Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s policies as they march towards her home on the two-year anniversary of her inauguration, Thursday, May 20, 2021 in Chicago. (AP Photo\/Shafkat Anowar)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>FOX32 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/shootings-and-murders-have-increased-in-chicago-in-2021-compared-to-previous-years-cpd-data-shows\">tracked<\/a> this year\u2019s surging Chicago homicides and noted in November that the city\u2019s death numbers were well-ahead of those posted during recent years.<\/p>\n<p>They&nbsp;contrasted the number of homicides recorded January 1 through October 31 during the past three years and found 432 homicides during that time-frame in 2019, 661 homicides during that time in 2020, and 678 during that same time in 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"29.96017699115\">\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been over 800 homicides at this point in 2021 in Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s (D) Chicago. 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