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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com

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"Violent crime in Chicago has dropped significantly in the first half of the year, according to official data released by the city. Shootings are down 37% and homicides have dropped by 32% compared to the first half of 2024, while total violent crime dropped by over 22%..."

At least eight people have been killed and 58 others injured in shootings across Chicago over Labor Day weekend, according to police.

58 shot over weekend in Chicago as governor rejects Trump's threat to send in National Guard

At least eight people have been killed and 58 others injured in shootings across Chicago over Labor Day weekend, according to police.

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    Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social

    I love how the article repeats Trump's claim that Chicago is the "most dangerous city in the World, by far," and then never bothers over 36 paragraphs to fact-check this absurd and easily debunked claim. Or to even mention Chicago's size.

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    MikeKN @mikenp40.bsky.social

    ABC is 100% onboard with fascism now. Unless of course, they park the Humvees in front of David Muir's house or roadblock checkpoint Martha Raddatz's street.

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    Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social

    The president is not telling the truth when he frames the narrative as “these cities are hellholes.” If he genuinely cared about law enforcement and crime, he would not have pardoned violent insurrectionists nor had Ghislane Maxwell moved to cushier confinement location.

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    @bootowl.bsky.social

    I hate this conversation. It doesn't matter. In America, we don't use the Army to fight crime. No matter how bad it is. Crime could be at record levels, and it would still be illegal to send in the Army. If the Feds want to help, send in more FBI and ATF agents.

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    Axeshun @axeshun.bsky.social

    So...were 58 shot as the headline says? Or were 8 'shot & killed' and 58 others shot, as the lede implies?

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    Star @starmann.bsky.social

    This is pure fascist framing from ABC. They've basically converted to regime media, but won't get any credit from MAGA for their editorial shift. Pathetic

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    BlueBird @sun2stars.bsky.social

    I read to the end of articles to see that this was the same or less than deaths in other Labor Day weekends in Chicago and violent red cities, per capita. Only thing common to ALL shootings in every city: GUNS.

    Require waiting period, test, registration for all guns. Ban/Buyback ARs/AKs

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    Corey Caddell @pielmast.bsky.social

    Chicago is a city of 2.7 million. Even 58 violent acts is such a tiny number statistically. That is .002 percent. You are 3 times more likely to be struck by lightning than be shot in Chicago.

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    Beeds7 @beeds7.bsky.social

    That’s a shooting rate of .0002% for a city of 2.8 million. Also, notice shootings and not deaths. The lengths they go to to normalize that clown is amazing.

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