From FOX News:
Chicago suffers bloodiest Memorial Day weekend since 2015 with at least 10 killed, report says
Ten people were gunned down in Chicago in recent days during what is being called as the city’s deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015.
The violence – which also left 38 injured – came despite Illinois’ ongoing stay-at-home order asking residents to remain indoors “unless you work for an essential business or are doing an essential activity.”
The Chicago Sun-Times’ tally defined the Memorial Day weekend as beginning at 5 p.m. Friday and lasting until 5 a.m. Tuesday. In 2015, 12 people were killed over the holiday weekend, according to its reporting.
I guess that’s what happens when:
Chicago’s biggest jail has released almost a fourth of its population over coronavirus fears
Chicago’s Cook County Jail once had a population of roughly 10,000 detainees and was often cited for overcrowding.
Now that number is down to around 4,200, an all-time low, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. One significant reason is the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Also, as WBEZ reports:
Chicago Police have been instructed to minimize contacts with the public to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Since Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker issued his stay-at-home order in March, arrests in Chicago have dropped by almost 75%, according to city data. William’s experience highlights the difficult balance police are trying to strike between public health and public safety.
Who couldn’t have predicted that letting people out of jail and stopping the police from arresting people will lead to more death in Chicago’s streets?
The government of Chicago and Illinois, that’s who.
I wonder how many more young men died of gunshots than would have died of COVID had they been locked up the way they were supposed to? What do you think that ratio is?
People are getting stir crazy but the government isn’t responding in kind. Throw in the Democrat governors promising to fire cops if they don’t get their bailout and it’s easy to imagine that street violence is going to be bad this summer as agitated, unemployed people leave the house and there are not enough cops making too few arrests to keep the peace.
But the cops had time to bang on a church door and demand everyone go home…
They call it gun violence but in the report at the end say it was gangs fighting or a drug deal. Chicago never mentions gang violence because the gangs help get idiots elected. The county attorney releases everyone caught with a gun even felons for the 4th or 5th time. Everyone in the media acts surprised at more shootings. If the gangs had target practice it would be really bad
Who couldn’t have predicted that letting people out of jail and stopping the police from arresting people will lead to more death in Chicago’s streets?
The government of Chicago and Illinois, that’s who.
You’re giving them far too much credit.
They predicted it. Hell, they probably counted on it.
After all, they can’t push for more draconian lock-down measures or stricter gun laws if nobody is going out and dying from gunfire.
To paraphrase Ayn Rand: There’s no way to dance in blood if there’s no blood in which to dance. So if there isn’t enough blood, one must make some. One sets up so many conditions to shed blood that it becomes impossible for it not to be shed.
Yes, we know Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. However, I’d argue that the “COVID release” policy (and rotating-door release policy in general) has failed so many places that it cannot be “adequately explained by stupidity”. Malice is the only reasonable alternative.