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CHICAGO  — One hundred people – two of them police officers – were shot in Chicago over the long Fourth of July weekend, including 18 homicides, the city’s police department said Tuesday.

Among those injured were at least a dozen children. None of them had died as of Tuesday morning, but at least three of the minors were in critical condition.

The bloodshed was comparable to the long Fourth of July weekend last year, when 17 people were fatally shot and 70 more were wounded. A 7-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy were among the dead that weekend.

Police Superintendent David Brown put much of the blame for the gun violence on a court system that allows people charged with violent crimes, including murder, to be

released from custody on electronic monitoring.

“The courts releasing people charged with murder back into the communities…. is creating an unsafe environment for all of us,” Brown said at a news conference.

Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans took issue with Brown’s criticism of electronic monitoring, saying in a statement Tuesday that it is “based on the constitutional principle should not be imprisonment before they are tried, unless they pose a significant danger to the community.”

Evans did not mention Brown by name or respond directly to his comments about a 7-year-old girl who was fatally shot in April, allegedly by a man who was on electronic monitoring in another case. But he made it clear that such comments were unfair.

“Looking at individual tragic cases in isolation may contribute to the speculation that releasing individuals before trial rather than incarcerating them – whether by placing them on Electronic Monitoring  or other forms of supervision – means an increase in crime,” he said. “But speculation based on isolated cases is not the same as reality based on a complete picture, and research has shown that bail reform has not led to an increase in crime.”

Brown has been under pressure for the violent crime that rose dramatically in 2020 compared to the year before and shows little sign of slowing down thus far this year. Even before the holiday weekend, the department said in the first six months of the

year there were 332 homicides compared to 338 for the same period last year and that there were more shooting victims and shooting incidents than during the same six-month period last year.

He picked up Tuesday where he left off last week when he was called before the City Council to explain his crime fighting strategies ahead of what is traditionally one of the most violent weekends of the year.

As he did in his City Council appearance, Brown defended his department, including in his briefing to reporters that his officers had recovered 244 illegal guns over the long weekend. “Strategy-wise, we did our part,” he said.

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‘This is a war zone’: Chicago alderman rips mayor after more than 100 shot over bloody July 4th weekend

One week after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spouted nonsense about crime being on the decline in the Windy City, there was a bloodbath over the Fourth of July weekend.

Over 100 people were shot in Chicago since 5 p.m. Friday, with 16 deaths, according to WGN. Included among the carnage were six children and two police officers who came under fire while trying to disperse a crowd — the cops sustained non-life-threatening injuries and there were no arrests.

The shootings were noticeably higher than the 2020 4th of July weekend, which saw nearly 80 people shot and 15 killed, according to CBS Chicago. In 2019, the holiday weekend resulted in at least 68 people shot, five fatally. The trend speaks for itself.

Calling the city a “war zone,” Alderman Anthony Napolitano was highly critical of the mayor for her “nonsense,” and also slammed Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx, whom he said was “by far the worst in the nation.”

A former police officer, Napolitano said Chicago is “averaging over 6,000 people shot over the last 18 months,” and in response to Lightfoot’s claim that illegal guns brought in from surrounding areas are largely responsible for the gun violence, Napolitano said that’s “pure nonsense.”

“We have the strongest and the strictest gun laws in the state, if not the country,” he said, adding that areas bordering the city have “nowhere near the amount of crime we do.”

“We have a people problem here in Chicago and I’ve been saying this for a long time, we have zero accountability for parents in the city of Chicago,” the alderman insisted. “Nobody is raising their kids anymore, the gangs are raising them.”

Vowing to reform the criminal justice system and lower the Cook County Jail inmate population upon taking office, Foxx dismissed tens of thousands of felony cases, even murder cases. In her first three years in office, she dropped all charges against 29.9% of felony defendants, according to Fox News.

Up for reelection in November 2020, Foxx won easily by 15 points.

As for Lightfoot, she was confronted last week by Newsmax about rampant crime and the Democrat countered with a remarkable statement.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: “Crime is not out of control in our city. In fact, crime is on the decline.”

“The premise of your question, which is it’s chaos everywhere, the fact of the matter is, sir – which you also didn’t point out, but I will so we get this straight – we’re actually seeing a decline in homicides and shootings. Yes sir,” she added.

Citing data through June 14, the Chicago Tribune reported that 1,587 people have been shot this year, which is 195 more than 2020.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that at the halfway point of the year, “more people have been shot and more people have been killed in Chicago than this time last year, when violence reached levels not seen since the mid-1990s.”

The newspaper said there have been at least 336 homicides for the first six months of 2021, which is two more than at this point in 2020, adding that “last year was one of the deadliest in the city in decades, with 775 killed, a sharp spike from the 500 homicides in 2019.”

There were a total of 252 homicides in 2019.

In addition to blaming illegal guns, Lightfoot claimed at a June 28 news conference that “our criminal courts have been shut down for 15 months,” this being a reference to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I’m calling upon our county partners, and particularly those in the criminal courts: Open up the courts,” Lightfoot said. “People need their day in court. Justice delayed is justice denied, and you’re hurting not only those who are charged but also those in the community.”

In effect, the mayor tried to blame the courts but the Sun-Times dispelled that claim, reporting that while jury trials were suspended in Cook County, criminal courts have continued their other operations over the past 15 months, adding that jury trials started up again in March.

A 20-year-old student was struck with a stray bullet on his way home from his summer internship in Chicago last week and died from his wounds Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Max Lewis was taking the train Thursday from his internship in downtown Chicago at a financial firm when a bullet broke through the window of his train car and penetrated his neck, according to the report.

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