Top News
Chicago Lawmakers Want National Guard to Reduce Gun Crime
April 26, 2010
|
Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis is speaking out against the offering by two Illinois legislators to send the Illinois National Guard to help reduce the amoung of gun violence in the city, the Sun-Times reports.
At a press conference Sunday, Rep. John Fritchey and Rep. LaShawn Ford asked Mayor Daley and Gov. Quinn to use the reservists. So far this year, 113 people have been killed across the Chicago area, the same number as U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the legislators said.
Read the full story.
Tags: Chicago PD, Military-related
Loading...
Be the first to comment on this story
Other Recent News
Streamlight Inc. has upgraded the lumen light output of its compact ProTac tactical...
A New Mexico State Police trooper and several bystanders lifted an overturned vehicle and...
The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police...
A determined and courageous mother chased the man who abducted her little girl across...
Cotati (Calif.) Police officers entered the home of a military veteran after a neighbor...