{"id":1791454,"date":"2022-12-31T11:05:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T16:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1791454"},"modified":"2022-12-31T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T16:06:02","slug":"chicago-to-end-the-year-with-over-700-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-to-end-the-year-with-over-700-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Ends the Year with More Than 700 Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fchicago-to-end-the-year-with-over-700-murders%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=1791454&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mayor-Lori-Lightfoots-Chicago-Will-End-The-Year-with-at-Least-723-Murders.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s Chicago will end 2022 with at least 723 homicides, another tragic figure showing the city is far from ending its bloodbath epidemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The city had 723 homicides in the past year as of December 30. <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2022\/12\/30\/23529499\/crime-murder-shootings-year-end-2022-lori-lightfoot-police-cpd-david-brown-carjackings-robbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> The Chicago Sun-Times<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chicago\u2019s motor vehicle theft was 95 percent in 2022 compared to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Theft was up 50%, burglary was up 10%, and theft was up 10%.<\/p>\n<p>2021 proved the deadliest year for Chicago, with 797 homicides \u2013 the largest in a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s 723 homicides in 2022 are a slight drop from 2021 but still represent a dangerous city, according to some city leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Less (former deputy mayor for safety) said that gun violence in the area has started to decrease.<\/p>\n<p>Less <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2022\/12\/30\/23529499\/crime-murder-shootings-year-end-2022-lori-lightfoot-police-cpd-david-brown-carjackings-robbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>: \u201c[We] should not be patting ourselves on the back when the \u2026 absolute number of shootings and homicides is so high that people are afraid to do their daily functions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still in a crisis,\u201d Less said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/lori-lightfoot-demands-5-pay-rise-as-chicago-crime-rates-spiral-out-of-control\/\">Lori Lightfoot Demands 5% Pay rise as Chicago Crime Rates Spiral Out of Control<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Others, however, were more optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Asher is a crime analyst. \u201cIt\u2019s a decline, and it\u2019s significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot every city saw declines. Not every city saw declines as big as Chicago, which still has a lot of murders and shootings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Chicago Suntimes noted, the police budget will swell to nearly $2 billion next year \u2014 up from the $1.66 billion that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel set aside in his 2019 budget.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in anti-violence spending was caused by the federal stimulus money that the federal government provided to the cities, counties, and states in order to avoid a deeper economic crash in the aftermath of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in her 80s was interviewed earlier this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/woman-robbed-gunpoint-dog-lincoln-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">robbed at gunpoint<\/a> in broad daylight while walking her dog in Lori Lightfoot\u2019s Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Fox 32 reported that a man entered a blue Honda CRV and pointed a gun towards the woman as she was walking her dog.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye out<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<noscript>[embedded content]<\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s Chicago will end 2022 with at least 723 homicides, another tragic figure showing the city is far from ending its bloodbath epidemic. The city had 723 homicides in the past year as of December 30. according The Chicago Sun-Times Meanwhile, Chicago\u2019s motor vehicle theft was 95 percent in 2022 compared to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1791457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[12678,5458,4387,9032,3819],"class_list":["post-1791454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-12678","tag-bongino","tag-chicago","tag-murders","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}