{"id":1982470,"date":"2023-07-25T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/33-shot-in-chicago-in-bloody-weekend-under-soft-on-crime-mayor\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T17:15:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:15:49","slug":"33-shot-in-chicago-in-bloody-weekend-under-soft-on-crime-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/33-shot-in-chicago-in-bloody-weekend-under-soft-on-crime-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"33 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend under a lenient mayor on crime."},"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\">30<\/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%2F33-shot-in-chicago-in-bloody-weekend-under-soft-on-crime-mayor%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=1982470&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--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"33 Shot in Chicago in Bloody Weekend Under Soft-on-Crime Mayor\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/hillary-clinton-points-finger-at-maga-republicans-for-hot-summer-weather\" data-post-url id=\"print-1771962\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>A crime scene in Chicago, 2021 \u2063(Getty Images)<\/h2>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A slew\u200d of weekend shootings over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlanta-community-looks-to-separate-from-the-capital-amid-skyrocketing-crime-rates\/\" title=\"Atlanta community looks to separate from the capital amid skyrocketing crime rates\">weekend left<\/a> at least <strong>33 shot\u2014with 6 dead and 27 wounded<\/strong>\u2014in Chicago, where the Democratic mayor has called &#8220;defund the\u200b police&#8221;\u200c a \u2063&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wsj-editorial-board-democratic-proposal-will-let-the-irs-snoop-on-your-bank-account\/\" title=\"WSJ Editorial Board: Democratic Proposal Will Let The IRS Snoop On Your Bank Account\">real political goal<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city \u200dhas averaged <strong>13 homicides \u2063per week<\/strong> in the past year, compared with 10 per week in 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/feature\/tracking-crime-and-safety-in-your-neighborhood\/12385906\/\">according<\/a> to a local ABC affiliate. The bloody weekend was the deadliest this month.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d shootings come under the tenure\u200c of recently \u2063elected mayor Brandon Johnson, \u2063who \u200ctook office in May after <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-defund-the-police-advocate-chicago-just-elected-to-deal-with-its-crime-spike\/\">arguing<\/a> the city should &#8220;have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">health professionals<\/a>, not police,\u200c respond \u200dto crisis calls.&#8221; He was the\u200d only candidate who did \u2063not support filling the 1,600 vacancies\u200c in the Chicago Police Department. Johnson\u2019s predecessor,\u200d former mayor Lori Lightfoot, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-defund-the-police-advocate-chicago-just-elected-to-deal-with-its-crime-spike\/\">pushed<\/a> similar soft-on-crime\u200b policies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/33-shot-in-chicago-in-bloody-weekend-under-soft-on-crime-mayor\/\" title=\"33 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend under a lenient mayor on crime.\">included hiring mental \u2064health workers<\/a> &#8220;to \u200crespond to 911 calls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The City Council is <a href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/news\/wex\/chicago-mayor-enacts-policing-and-housing-agenda-as-he-works-to-pick-next-police-superintendent\/article_d6e44a0d-0ead-557d-a2c3-a13c8f30912b.html\">set<\/a> to hold\u2063 a hearing titled &#8220;Treatment, Not\u2062 Trauma,&#8221; which aims to \u200dreform how\u2064 the\u2062 police respond to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-promotes-program-focused-on-dismantling-racism-in-mathematics-says-finding-the-right-answer-a-sign-of-white-supremacy\/\" title=\"Oregon Promotes Program Focused On \u2018Dismantling Racism In Mathematics,\u201d Says Finding The Right Answer A Sign Of White Supremacy\">mental health crises<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After a violent weekend in April in which hundreds\u2063 of juveniles wreaked havoc downtown, Johnson \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/chicago-mayor-elect-blames-weekend-violence-on-lack-of-spaces-for-youth\/\">said<\/a> the smashed windows \u2063and wounded \u200bbystanders were due to a lack of &#8220;spaces for youth to gather safely.&#8221; The city sent \u2063&#8221;peacekeepers&#8221; into the streets to stop violence during Memorial Day weekend but\u200d subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/chicago-sent-peacekeepers-to-stop-memorial-day-weekend-violence-it-didnt-go-well\/\">charged<\/a> a man wearing a peacekeeper\u2019s vest\u2063 in\u2064 connection with a street scuffle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surge of shootings in Chicago this weekend resulted in 33 people shot, leaving 6 dead and 27 injured. The city&#8217;s Democratic mayor acknowledges &#8220;defund the police&#8221; as a genuine political objective. Over the past year, Chicago has witnessed an average of 13 homicides per week, surpassing the previous average of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2083,"featured_media":1982471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1982470","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\/2083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}