Black People : Chicago Rings in First Homicide of 2016 - Count Continues into 2017 - Continues into 2018, 2019, 2020

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Chicago Crime Spikes As Police Avoid Becoming 'The Next Viral Video'


Chicago is having a bloody year.

Already since January, more than 100 people have been murdered in the city — double the number of homicides in Chicago during the first two months last year. The number of shooting incidents is also up by 120 percent compared to the first nine weeks of 2015 ...


http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr...s-police-avoid-becoming-the-next-viral-video/

Demonstrators in Chicago call for an end to gun violence and resignation of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Chicago police are under scrutiny following the release of a video showing the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer.

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Chicago attempts to recruit more diverse police candidates. Will it work?

The Chicago Police Department announced that 70 percent of a new pool of police applicants are black, Asian, or Latino. But it remains to be seen how many of these applicants will pass the police test and be hired



The Chicago Police Department has announced a 13 percent jump in black, Hispanic, and Asian applicants to the police force, the first sign of partial progress within a partnership between the police, the city, and community leaders ...


http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-attempts-recruit-more-diverse-police-candidates-214326189.html


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There's no question about it IMO. These new recruits will end trigger jittery cops and rightly so. Just ask yourself if you was a new recruit cutting your teeth in West Englewood...I won't laugh.

 

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From the article:

"At the end of the day we didn’t get the numbers we wanted as far as minorities are concerned, and it’s been a dynamic in this department that we’ve struggled with for a long time,” former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said of the 2013 process, according to The Christian Science Monitor."​

There's no question about it IMO. These new recruits will end trigger jittery cops and rightly so. Just ask yourself if you was a new recruit cutting your teeth in West Englewood...I won't laugh.

 

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For black officers, police controversies hit close to home

Black police officers know the challenges of being a cop but also say they aren't immune to the type of incidents that have made headlines in recent months


... African-Americans make up about a quarter of the police force in Chicago. But many officers, like Westley, say that the badge does not make them immune to the type of incidents that have made headlines in recent months, most notably the fatal shooting of Laquan. They recall being pulled over without reason by white cops when they’re off-duty and talk about walking the “different lanes” of black and blue ...



http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justic...ficers-police-controversies-hit-close-to-home

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