Another weekend of violence in Chicago is ignored for an anti-police agenda

Chicago suffers through dozens of shootings each weekend with little media notice, yet when police shoot one man who was trying to murder them, suddenly, it's a national story.

At least 43 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, including at least four children. Seven people were killed, bringing Chicago's total number of homicides this year to at least 127. That is more than one homicide per day and means Chicago is still on a more lethal homicide pace than it was in 2019 before the pandemic. In total, Chicago has seen 2,973 homicides since the beginning of 2020, nearly two homicides per day.

For some reason, this is all considered normal and unremarkable despite it being far worse than the already-high number of homicides Chicago was seeing before the pandemic. It has become predictable to expect upward of 50-70 people being shot over holiday weekends. Yet despite all this, Chicago does not get national outcry or outrage over how dangerous it is from liberal media, nor does it earn outrage from the city's Democratic leaders.

Meanwhile, national media did manage to blow up a police shooting into a national story despite the fact that the officers were fired on first. A man with a history that included illegal possession of a firearm defied police instructions during a traffic stop and then fired on them first, and national media have turned it into a national story so that they could further demonize police officers.

Or take the reaction of Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson. Here is Johnson after that police shooting, in which police were defending themselves from a man who fired on them first: "As mayor and as a father raising a family, including two black boys on the West Side of Chicago, I am personally devastated to see yet another young black man lose his life during an interaction with the police."

And here is Johnson after 53 people were shot and 11 were killed last year over Memorial Day weekend — the holiday weekend has become synonymous with violence in Chicago: "We understand that when communities have been disinvested in and traumatized, that you're seeing the manifestation of that trauma."

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Johnson was personally devastated over the death of a man who tried to kill police officers and implied it was the result of racism, but over 50 people shot and nearly a dozen killed are just proof of "trauma" and another excuse to support whatever economic plans Johnson wants to push.

The normalization of Chicago's homicide numbers is made all the more pathetic by the wall-to-wall coverage of and outrage over a justified police shooting. Weekend after weekend of shootings and murders is considered unremarkable by national liberal media, which are happy to blow up local crime stories when they fit (or are made to fit) an anti-police agenda, and it is considered inconvenient by local politicians who would rather condemn police than reckon with the city's violence. It is the worst impulse of everyone involved and helps explain why Chicago's problem has only grown worse.