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2021-07-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-
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Chicago expressway shootings continue to surge despite $12.5M grant, federal intervention
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[FOXNEWS] There have been 137 shootings on reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
 ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
-area expressways so far this year as of Sunday, Illinois State Police confirmed to Fox News. There were 128 expressway shootings in Chicago in all of 2020, and 52 in all of 2019.
Dan Ryan Expressway, which runs from Circle Interchange with I-290 near downtown through the South Side, is perhaps the most dangerous highway in Chicago. A Jeep Wrangler was riddled with bullet holes near 37th Street on the Dan Ryan Wednesday, which marked the 43rd shooting so far this year on that roadway.
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"The Dan Ryan, in particular, has certain intervals where it’s probably repeat offenders here," Dr. Joe Schwieterman, an expert in transportation and urban planning, told WBBM-TV. "We have enough problems right now with our image with crime without this sort of drive-by motorist risk."
Arrests are infrequent in Chicago-area expressway shootings, which are rarely fueled by random road rage, WMAQ-TV reported in June. Victims rarely cooperate with police and often know their assailants.
Law enforcement have fallen victim to the expressway shootings. Earlier this month, one officer from the Chicago Police Department and two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents were shot and maimed while inside their undercover vehicle driving on the entrance ramp to Interstate 57.
Expressway shootings have continued to surge in Cook County despite the Illinois State Police receiving a $12.5 million grant in February from the Illinois Department of Transportation for the purchase and installation of automated license plate readers, software and specialized cameras. A state police spokesperson told Fox News the department hopes the cameras will be installed "in the coming weeks."
Illinois State Police said it will continue "to proactively patrol and saturate the Chicagoland expressways with the goal of ensuring public safety." The spokesperson highlighted ongoing initiatives with the Chicago Police Department and other local and federal agencies "on a variety of enforcement and gun violence reduction efforts."
"We are reallocating additional troopers from around the state to combat gun violence and future cadet classes are committed to District Chicago to increase manpower to fight gun violence on the expressways," ISP said. "We are also working with our state and federal partners on gun enforcement details to keep those who are prohibited from carrying weapons from having them. We continue to work with our state and federal partners to share intelligence on gun violence and gun trafficking."
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