Chicago’s homicide problem isn’t going away

Published June 13, 2021 6:21pm ET



Just because many have become numb to headlines about the continued violence in American cities doesn’t mean the situation is any less dire now. Nowhere is that more evident than in Chicago.

In the first 12 days of June, 32 people have been killed in Chicago, according to the Chicago Sun-Times homicide tracker. At least 21 of them were black. Three people were killed on Friday night, when a total of 32 people were shot across the city. Another eight people were injured in shootings on Saturday night, with two in critical condition.

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