Most Shooters In Chicago Don't Face Charges (94% got no criminal charges!)

[ShooterInPA1]

It’s getting easier to get away with shooting people in Chicago.

Last year, gunmen who shot and wounded someone got away without criminal charges 94 percent of the time, according to a DNAinfo.com Chicago analysis of police data.

That’s even worse than 2011, when 91.5 percent of shooters escaped charges, according to the data.

Chicago’s top cop said the “no-snitch” code of silence on the street is the biggest contributor in his department’s struggle to charge shooters.

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20130...ource=outbrain

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Why we have the problems we do. It ain't the guns. It's the selective (and sometimes non) enforcement of the laws.

[PocketProtector]

You got to be kidding.
But they want to criminalize us?
You know what?
Need more convincing why they want to ban guns?
Then you are brain dead

[ShooterInPA1]

You got to be kidding.
But they want to criminalize us?
You know what?
Need more convincing why they want to ban guns?
Then you are brain dead

It was never about the guns. It was always about the CONTROL.

If they could get away with making instant criminals of 100 million people, they would in a heartbeat.

Criminals however, can continue what they do unabated.

I am starting to question which is worse, the criminals on the streets of cities of cities like Chicago, or the criminals in the halls of Congress.

[BSH]

this also explains the difference in Japan's homicide rate - their conviction rate is about that high. (plus the cultural homogeneity)


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[fortysix]

The thing appears to imply that the stats are for all crimes, and that then means that people are just getting away with the gun crime and the major crime.

I'd like to see stats that show how many people who are caught and convicted of a crime involving a gun (murder, homicide, assault, attempted, armed robbery, etc) face the charges related to the gun portion of the crime. I'm betting that the gun charges go along with the plea bargain and get disappeared.

Why aren't murderers also being charged with the gun offense? CONSECUTIVE sentences too? I mean, if they plea on the murder charge, then they are implying they are guilty to the gun charge (possession, possession as a felon, whatever else is involved when you buy your guns from Tyrone on the corner), so why plea the gun charge? Throw the book at them, make it stick, and advertise it in the paper and TV, you will go to prison for gun charges and we will not negotiate.

Until the current laws are enforced and those guilty are actually punished as listed in the laws, I have no interest in any discussion on *gun control* or *the children* whatsoever. The laws are there, no one is bothering to use them. I say, if you aren't going to use a law, repeal it.

[father-of-five]

It is so frustrating that the state run media basically ignores what happens in Chicago. How helpful the truth would he here...

[PSUWaz00]

Was I the only one rooting for Gerald Butler in Law Abiding Citizen ?

[PaTom]

this also explains the difference in Japan's homicide rate - their conviction rate is about that high. (plus the cultural homogeneity)

That, and they only consider it a homicide if they investigate it and get a conviction.

[PSUWaz00]

That, and they only consider it a homicide if they investigate it and get a conviction.

Don't they have lots of suicides? I was watching a show on some forest ppl go into to kill themselves.