Alderman wants task force after CBS 2 Investigation exposes Black women bear burden of crime
CHICAGO – 'Shock. Sadness. Unbelievable. That this is not garnering more attention.' Those words from Ald. Gilbert Villegas , after watching the CBS News Chicago's Investigating Injustice series of reports.CBS 2 analyzed decades of police crime data connected to every crime victim in the city. The findings revealed that one in three victims is a Black woman. That's 33% of all crime victims.
'We've got to do a better job as a society to make sure that every resident of the city is safe, especially when it's overwhelmingly impacting one segment of our community,' he said.Now, he said he is exploring a task force to study the impact of crime on Black women in Chicago.'What I want to do is get folks together from the Department of Family Services, Chicago Park District, Chicago Police Department, and the Mayor's Office,' he said.
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