Another Brandon Body

All those promises of a ShotSpotter replacement.

All those victims waiting for an ambulance that might never come:

• Passersby found a gunshot victim lying near a Chicago Lawn intersection overnight, marking another case of a delayed emergency response after nobody called 911 to report gunfire in a neighborhood that was once monitored by the city’s gunfire detection network. Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected the ShotSpotter system in September 2024 despite strong objections from a supermajority of the City Council, his handpicked police superintendent, and, according to one poll, 70% of Chicago residents.

  At about 2:10 a.m., someone walked into the Chicago Lawn (8th) District police station and reported that a man was lying on the ground near the intersection of 64th Street and Troy Street, according to CPD radio transmissions. Moments later, the Chicago Fire Department requested police assistance at 64th Street and Kedzie Avenue after paramedics found a man who had been shot.

He's alive....for now.