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>POTUS Letter to the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago
…I recently read an article from the Chicago Sun-Times on June 8, 2020, “18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago,” which discussed the severe crime and lack of law and order in our Nation’s third largest city. The article details how “85 people were shot and 24 killed the previous weekend, the most in modern history in Chicago.” Your lack of leadership on this important issue continues to fail the people you have sworn to protect. I am concerned it is another example of your lack of commitment to the vulnerable citizens who are victims of this violence and a lack of respect for the men and women in law enforcement. The article recounts the following horrors:
<A hardworking father killed.
<A West Side high school student murdered.
<A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down.
<18 people killed Sunday, May 31, the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades.
<The weekend of May 29, 25 people were killed and another 85 wounded by gunfire.
<The most violent weekend in Chicago’s modern history, stretching police resources that were already thin because of protests and looting.
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Full Cap: Q+'s Link in letter to Chicago Mayor and Illinois Gov.
18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago
By Tom Schuba, Sam Charles, and Matthew Hendrickson
Jun 8, 2020, 6:21am CDT
‘We’ve never seen anything like it at all,’ said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/8/21281998/chicago-deadliest-day-violence-murder-history-police-crime