Essentially 15 People Shot a Day in Chicago in June

Police records exhibit that pretty much 15 people were shot in Chicago day by day all over June, including an everyday usual of more than two who died.  The branch says there were 315 homicides in Chicago in the first six months of the yr, or more than 100 more than right through the identical period last 12 months.

The grim statistics come as the department announced plans to place heaps of officers on the street for the July four weekend that has in contemporary years viewed a spike in gun violence. Superintendent Eddie Johnson says there should be greater than 5,000 Chicago police officers, FBI brokers and Illinois State Police troopers on obligation.  Johnson says residents and friends to the metropolis will be aware an accelerated police presence.  And officers on the metropolis's two airports will carry excessive-powered weapons.