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Chicago
Organizers want a community-driven approach to reducing shootings. But most candidates are focused on improving — and investing in — police.
Internal memo called for federal officers to flood the city's highest-crime neighborhoods.
“These are things that don’t cost money, and that just make sense,” Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin said.
Through March, officers had confiscated 1,100 firearms.
In a follow up to our ranking of the top 20 crime guns used in Chicago, here is an itemized list — including the make, model, and caliber — of the 4,505 firearms connected to crimes in the city in 2014.
Police data reveals that drug money is helping the city’s gang members buy more firepower, while decades-old ‘Saturday Night Specials’ continue to claim victims.
A group of neighborhood moms began camping out on a South Side street corner after a shooting there in late June. Since then, there hasn't been a single shooting in the area.
