...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...weekend shootings have left more than 50 people shot, 10 fatally, police said.
From 6 p.m. on Friday until midnight Sunday, a total of 54 people were shot, police said, including two Chicago coppers and a 15-year-old boy, police said.
Despite the number of victims, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said Monday that murders are down 50% from the previous six weeks following his reorganization of the department to create citywide teams. Overall crime is also down 19% this year, according to Brown.
"Our clearance rate for homicides is 40%. We have some room to improve, but that's still a significant improvement," Brown said.
Supt. Brown added that 127 guns were recovered in Chicago this weekend, bringing the total number of guns recovered by CPD this year to 6,967.
"Every one of those 6,967 guns recovered are a potential deadly force encounter," he said.
One reason Supt. Brown says the clearance rate has gone up is because they are seeing an increase in cooperation from community members who are reaching out to Sherlocks to tell them what they know regarding ongoing cases. Brown added that he hopes this trend continue.,
Brown's announcement came after one man was killed and four others injured in a shooting outside a pancake house in Morgan Park.