Pants-of-dog wrote:So the WP data shows 14 unarmed black people shot and killed by police in 2019.
In Chicago, there were 18 people murdered in just one day.
18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago"While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.
From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 5 a.m. Monday, June 1, 25 people were killed in the city, with another 85 wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times."
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"Most homicide victims in Chicago are young, black men, and the suspects are, too. But murders have fallen significantly in recent years, along with police-involved shootings. There were 764 murders and 12 fatal police-involved shootings in 2016, compared with 492 murders and three fatal police-involved shootings last year."
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020 ... lice-crime