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The entire city of Chicago is a gun free zone and leads the nation in gun deaths.
Memorial Day weekend closes with 69 shot in Chicago, many of them on West Side (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-shootings-memorial-day-20160530-story.html)
Something is definitely going on currently in major cities across America. As murders have had dramatic jumps this year in many of them. Take a look at this report on what the FBI is saying:
Murders in Major U.S. Cities Are Up Again This Year (http://time.com/4329688/murder-rate-u-s-cities-increase-2016/)
Some are claiming that this is a "Ferguson Effect", that is affecting how major police departments are behaving. Many of the cities now reporting dramatic rises have had major protests against their police departments regarding police brutality and shootings.
Could police departments really be pulling back, and feeling fearful that they will be condemned for aggressively going after criminals? And could this then be resulting in more inner city violent crime?
Could the police be in retreat?