Police Supt. Johnson: CPD Evaluating Officer Deployment On July 4
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson says there could have been more officers on the streets in the bloody end of the July Fourth weekend.
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Three people were killed and 50 hurt by gunfire over the three-day holiday weekend.
That's fewer people killed, but more being shot, compared with a year ago.
Two dozen of those shootings happened in a late hours of July 4.
"Any level of violence at any time in the city is unacceptable, but we always go back an re-evaluate what we have done and see if we can do things better," Johnson said.
"There is always a possibility we could have had more police officers out there."
Police union president Dean Angelo worries about burnout in the ranks.
"They are doing a lot more work with a lot less people," he said. "You are going to spread them so thin and work them so much that you aren't going to be able to go to the well over and over again."
Barbara Conwell, whose young niece and nephew were shot in Englewood over the weekend, said she is tired of the violence.
"Your own kids can't come out here and sit on their own porch without gunfire and that's not right."
