The Chicago Sun-Times tells \u201cthe story of why they won\u2019t stop shooting in Chicago.\u201d The newspaper said the story is told \u201cby by the wounded, the accused and the officers who were on the street during a 2008 weekend when 40 people were shot, seven fatally.\u201d Two years later, nearly all the shooters from that weekend have escaped charges. \u201cYou don\u2019t go to jail for shooting people,\u201d says Dontae Gamble, who took six bullets that weekend, only to see his alleged shooter walk free. So far, not one accused shooter has been convicted of pulling the trigger during those deadly 59 hours from April 18-20 of that year, a Sun-Times investigation found.<\/p>\n
Only one suspected triggerman \u2014 a convicted armed robber caught with the AK-47 he allegedly used to blow away his boss \u2014 is in jail awaiting trial. Three other victims said they know who shot them but refused to testify. Six murders from the weekend remain unsolved. Time\u2019s running out to catch the bad guys who shot 29 other people because there\u2019s a three-year statute of limitations on aggravated batteries with firearms. The Chicago police batting average for catching shooters has fallen to an alarmingly low level. Detectives cleared 18 percent of the 1,812 non-fatal shootings last year. They were slightly better in catching killers \u2014 30 percent of murders were cleared. Even though detectives cleared 18 percent of non-fatal shootings last year, almost half of those were cleared \u201cexceptionally,\u201d records show. That means more than 90 percent of those gunmen weren\u2019t charged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, don’t let people defend themselves Mayor Daley! \u00a0If you can’t do it, why should they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Remember all those shootings in Obama’s Chicago? \u00a0The gang warfare that’s made Chicago just about the most dangerous city between Juarez and Kandahar? Maybe not – the national media has been pretty hands-off on “gun violence” in Chicago since The One’s ascenscion. And it turns out that it’s even worse than the shooting figures indicate; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12742,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}