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Chicago’s Top Cop Blasts Prosecutor, Courts For Releasing Violent Offenders As City Logs 2,000th Shooting Victim

Emily Zanotti
Chicago’s Top Cop Blasts Prosecutor, Courts For Releasing Violent Offenders As City Logs 2,000th Shooting Victim
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Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown blasted the city’s judges and prosecutors Tuesday, at a press conference discussing the city’s bloody Fourth of July weekend, which saw record-breaking gun violence with more than 100 people shot, and at least 18 people killed.

Like other cities, Chicago is experiencing a spike in gun crime, but unlike other cities, Chicago saw more shootings over the Independence Day weekend than it did during the same holiday weekend last year. Brown, on Tuesday, said that the Chicago Police Department is stretched to the limit and blamed the city’s judicial system for turning violent offenders back out onto the street for the shocking rise in crime.

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