at least 150 people in the USA became victims of more than 400 incidents with shooting in the past long weekends, when the Americans celebrated Independence Day (July 4).
According to TASS, it reported on Monday evening CNN television company with reference to the data of the GUN Violence Archive research group, tracking cases of violence in the country.
The group stated growth in most American cities in the last year and a half violent crimes, especially with the use of firearms. In New York, on July 2-4, 21 incident was recorded, the victims of which were 26 people. This is less data for the same period last year when 30 people received in the course of 25 incidents with shooting firearms. In general, CNN states, in New York there is an increase in violence with the use of firearms “to levels that have not registered there for many years.” In the current year, this figure increased in a city by 40% compared with the same period of 2020 – 885 victims of 767 incidents.
In Chicago (Illinois), according to the Chief Commissioner of the City Department of the Police of David Brown, the last weekend were issued “the most difficult in the year” – 83 firearms, 14 of which were fatal. Killing including two girls of five and six years.
US President Joe Biden presented on June 23 a strategy to combat crime in the United States. The administration intends to achieve the goal by bringing to the responsibility of illegal weapons traders and providing support from the federal authorities to local law enforcement agencies. In the statement of the White House, it is noted that the number of murders in large cities of the country increased by 30% by 30% compared with the previous year. An 8% increased the number of attacks using firearms, and in the first quarter of this year the number of killings increased by 24% compared with the first quarter of last year and by 49% compared with the first quarter of 2019.