Trevor Schakohl on January 2, 2023
Over the New Year’s Day weekend, eight people were killed in shootings in Chicago, a higher death toll than during the same weekend last year.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, several of the recent shootings happened on New Year’s Day 2023, while shootings on New Year’s Day weekend 2022 left six people dead and 25 injured.
The weekend brought an end to a year of reduced murders but broader rising crime in America’s third largest city. Complaints of murder, criminal sexual assault, and aggravated battery fell by about 13%, 2% and 8% respectively compared to 2021, but the combined number of complaints for those crimes and robberies, burglaries and thefts went up by roughly 41%, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) indicated.
The CPD deployed 1,300 extra officers over the New Year’s weekend to deal with large crowds, Fox 32 reported. Hundreds of officers resigned from the department in 2022, according to data obtained by CBS Chicago.
Seven Chicago Police Department officers took their own lives last year, with three doing so during one week in December, according to WTTW.
The Chicago Police Department did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Chicago Streets See 8 Killed, More Than 20 Injured Over New Year’s Weekend
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