Chicago Become The Place Where A Black Teen Dies Daily

It's been another violent weekend in Chicago, with at least 15 people wounded by gunfire and 2 killed since Friday afternoon.

On Saturday night, a 12-year-old girl was standing on a sidewalk in the 500 block of North Springfield Avenue when she was shot in her left foot, the Chicago Tribunereports. Though the circumstances of the shooting were unclear, police told the paper that the child's family did not cooperate with police. She was hospitalized in good condition.

Donnel Rankin, a 16-year-old from suburban Sauk Village, was not so lucky. Rankin was found in the 12100 block of South Green Street Friday night with a gunshot wound to his head, the Tribune reports. He was dead on the scene. No one was in custody for the slaying as of Saturday night, and police told the Chicago Sun-Times it was likely gang-related.

Also on Friday night, a 17-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man were standing outside a party in the 7000 block of South Clyde Avenue when more than one assailant approached on foot and opened fire, NBC Chicago reports. The 17-year-old was critically wounded, and the 21-year-old was in "stable" condition. No one was in custody, but police told the station the shooters fled in a blue van.

As CBS Chicago reports, the shootings continued through Saturday and into early Sunday morning, when 33-year-old Devon Paramore was gunned down in the 8600 block of West 87th Street. Paramore was taken to John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County, where he was pronounced dead.

Source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/06/chicago-weekend-shootings_n_1489919.html

Why Are So Many Black Males Die In The Streets Of Chicago?

Homicides in Chicago spiked by 60 percent during the first three months of the year despite an increase in police resources in some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, according to new police crime statistics.

The Chicago Police Department data showed that nonfatal shootings also rose sharply in the first quarter compared with the same three months in 2011.

Chicago police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel say the city has increased efforts to combat gang crime, including adding officers and other resources in trouble spots such as the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. Police blame much of the violence on the city's more than 70 active gangs and their tens of thousands of members. The mayor has urged residents to take a stand against gangs in their communities.

The police statistics show 120 homicides from Jan. 1 through April 1, compared with 75 over the same period in 2011.

One criminologist said unseasonably warm weather might have contributed to the spike.

"In better weather, people are outside more, interacting more with neighbors, acquaintances, even strangers, and there's greater opportunity for conflict than when it's cold and windy," James Alan Fox told the Chicago Tribune.

Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston, cautioned that it's too early to draw hard conclusions from three months of data, noting that the number of homicides in Chicago has been at historic lows in recent years.

All six other crime categories tracked in the police statistics were down, including a 15 percent decline in sexual assaults and a 9 percent drop in robberies. Car thefts declined 16 percent to 4,081.

Source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/chicago-murder-rate-up_n_1420382.html?1334239048&ref=chicago

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