Are there no social workers? No dispute resolution counselors?

37 shot over the holiday in Chicago.

[The Chicago Sun Times] cited police statistics that show a 53% increase in shootings and killings compared to the same time last year. In April, one of the goals of the city’s police force was to keep the number of homicides below 300, NBC Chicago reported.

Last week that the city reached its 700th homicide for the year after another violent weekend, which was the second time the number was reached in two decades.