China News Service, New York, January 3-The United States’ third largest city, Chicago, has frequent shootings during the 2022 New Year’s holiday, resulting in 6 deaths and 25 injuries.

Among the victims was a minor, which caused widespread concern.

　　According to the CBS report, from the evening of December 31 last year to the late night of January 2 this year, the Chicago Police Department reported more than 20 shootings.

Although no mass shootings occurred, 31 people were killed or injured.

　　According to the report, a shooting in the Southern District of Chicago at 11:25 pm on the 2nd, due to the murder of minors, has attracted widespread attention from the society.

That night, a 12-year-old boy was sitting at the foot of the bed at home. He was shot in the chest and died after being sent to the hospital.

Police records show that the gunman has a criminal record, but no more information was disclosed.

　　According to the Chicago Sun, in the past year, the number of shootings in Chicago was as high as 3,561, an increase of more than 300 from 2020 and 1,415 more than in 2019.

In addition to shootings, statistics released by the Chicago Police Department on the 1st showed that there were 797 homicides in the city in 2021, the highest number of homicides since 1996.

However, various departments in the city have been arguing over how to deal with the chaos of social security, and relevant measures have failed to effectively reduce the overall crime rate in the city.

　　In the past two years, the Chicago Police Department’s annual overtime expenditure has exceeded 15 million U.S. dollars, and its special expenditure on violent crimes in the community has increased year by year. However, areas with high crime rates in the city have become "increasingly dangerous."

At the end of December last year, Chicago Mayor Lightford called on the federal government to provide assistance to combat rampant criminal activities in the area. "We urgently need additional resources before the summer of 2022."

　　According to data released by the US non-profit organization "Gun Violence Archives", in 2021, a total of 44,700 people died from gun violence in the United States, of which more than 20,600 died from homicide, and approximately 24,000 died from suicide. Among them, 1,533 were adolescents and children under the age of 18.

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