ABC's Pierre Thomas traveled to Chicago for an exclusive conversation with police Superintendent David Brown as part of ABC's continuing coverage of guns in America.Over one recent weekend in Chicago, two children under the age of 10 became victims of the city's rampant gun violence.
"It's the most complex policing landscape ever in this country's history. We are making progress, but the complexities make it such that it is so fragile," Brown told Thomas. "The ebbs and flows of violence are persistent." According to Brown, police have also been taking an average of 12,000 guns off Chicago's streets every year -- including "ghost guns," which are unregistered firearms that can be assembled from at-home kits.
"It's like the intelligence network for how we respond to crime, how we solve crime," Brown said. "I think more importantly, this is one of our major linchpins for how we prevent crime." "You look at Harlem in New York today versus Harlem in New York 30 years ago, where you see actually some gentrification, but you see, really, a commitment to economic development. And you see Harlem much safer than it was 30 years ago," Brown said.
ABC's Pierre Thomas and Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown visited a corner once known as a hot spot for crime that has been transformed by economic initiatives into a basketball court and green space."Instead of it being an attraction to hand-to-hand drug transactions, it's an attraction to community engagement with each other and with police," Brown said.
I doubt those numbers.
Geez. Are you bragging? There should not be even 1.
Why are shootings in Chicago so high anyway?
So how many then?...😉
Good less out of control criminals are targets for us regular non criminals lol hunting season is lessening lol we ready to hunt the criminals lol watch out criminals. You are on notice for free target practice lol 😂
Lmao! Violent crime way up. So people are “getting shot less”. Every other area is up like 30%….
chicago has 3000 gangs
If the 16% drop in murders continues for the rest of the year, only 672 people will have been murdered in 2022. Congratulations Mayor Lightfoot!
Cant stress enough to you to stop trying to bolster democratic policies. The polls show it makes you look bad and in turn is creating republican voters. Do stories on dogs and small town craft fairs.
Great job 🤦🏻♀️
So the water carrying main stream media puts this article out before midterms and there is the communist base right there to cheer it on. Who actually believes this. Right before midterms all of a sudden a 20% drop ya right
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Weekend gun violence left 34 people shot, five fatally over the weekend, Chicago police said. Several children were among the victims, including a three-year-old boy killed on Friday and a seven-year-old boy shot on his way to church.
It would really help if the press would stop defining the wildly huge amount of gun violence in America, by mass shootings or what happened in Chicago. Can't be that rampant and that isolated at the same time, thanks!!
On Thursday the January 6th insurrection commission will show us what really happened & who was behind it. What I’m doing is recording CNN and Fox so I can see the difference! The last time Fox muted parts they didn’t want you to hear!
What only 1000 people murdered this year?
Still yet 500 lost their lives because of the mayor of Chicago
.PhillyMayor .PPDCommish
You guys did it.. you should be so proud
What a ridiculous article ABC. You are just another media outlet of the Democratic Party! Shame on you! Maybe you should relocate the headquarters of ABC to the south side of Chicago.
🤣🤣 yeah...ok!
Instead of percentages, give us the real numbers of how many were shot,, killed .. hell, throw in the car jackings, smash and grabs and muggings while you're at it..
Thanks Joe Biden.
Police in Chicago r using a more surgical + scientific approach to crime prevention. Just throwing good money after bad isn’t the way to reduce crime. Hiring more cops isn’t the solution either. You have to use a scientific methodology, not mindless actions w/o sound reasoning!
Not according to tedcruz
You report this as if there was little crime in Chicago. Look at all the people that were shot last weekend. What biased reporting!
Shooters have moved south on I-65 to Indianapolis. Our attorney general AGToddRokita heartily endorses the second amendment, and no gun licenses are required. Our mortuaries are thriving!
sure, businesses & corporations are fleeing because crime is down.....🤣🤣👋👌
You believe that shit? 😂
How many were shot. Your story is who cream on a pile of crap
LMFAO!!! The murder rate is still unacceptable. Vote red next time!!!
lol. Rightttttt
Those stats were doctored by the City of Chicago.
Whatever
aight lets go chicago. we know yall can do better and we love you. Good work!!
Fake news
Shootings aren't down. Authorities are not reporting every shooting to the public anymore. Many Democrat run cities stopped reporting their full crime rates this year. Some cities don't let cops respond to every 911 call bc it keeps crime rate numbers down if there's no report.
Lies
Yeah, and gas prices are down too! 😂😂😂
So policing works..
Good job, instead of someone getting shot every 1 minute and 45 seconds they get shot every 2 minutes and 22 seconds.
= CNN
at some point your have to run out of people willing to commit gun violence i suppose
Republicans will turn their heads and enable gun access.
How come when I google Chicago shootings this comes up
So the guns are still shooting each other?
Yeah? How’s theft? Why won’t Chicago give the FBI it’s crime statistics?
🤔🤔🤔 ABC has turned into CNN probably should read details.
Good give this more attention - it’s important
🤣😂 all that white supremacy up there. So out of control. On another note black ppl are still being killed at an unprecedented rate in Chicago. But that doesn’t matter I guess?
It would drop even more if they built a wall on the Indiana border.
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