The Chicago Police Department has used gun buybacks to get thousands of guns off the street, but at least two of them have resurfaced at crime scenes, a joint investigation between the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Sun-TImes found. [Watch]
The cops don’t keep a documented cha9n of custody>
Forget it, Jake, it’s Chi-Town.
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“The Chicago Police Department has used gun buybacks to get thousands of guns off the street …”
But apparently have yet to make a scratch, much less a dent, in the ongoing violence on Chicago’s South Side.
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Could it be that the number of “guns on the street” have little or nothing to do with their problem?
If, however, the mayor were to call in the police chief and say something along the lines of “Get these thugs off my streets in the next 72 hours or your replacement will!” things would probably change.
This is where we go back to our previous discussion on the probability, or lack thereof, of the College of Cardinals electing a Jewish Pope.