A vast majority of guns are purchased legally, but CPD is investigating or tracing how they get into criminals' hands, whether through straw purchases or theft for example.
"Unfortunately, this one was kind of buried because you had the Short North shooting that night, and then you had five people shot in the northern side of the city," said the Fraternal Order of Police's Brian Steel.
"We all love our city...we need to come together and have some serious, serious discussions, not just pointing the fingers to other people or other political parties because that's doing nothing for us," said Steel."The burnout rate is so high because it's nonstop. The calls for service do not stop. The violent crime does not stop, and certainly, the shootings or homicides are not getting any better," he said.
They also say they are seeing a lot of guns stolen from cars and advise legal gun owners to secure their firearms."We just saw a gun store robbed not too long ago, right? Fifty guns were stolen. Guns stolen out of cars, guns stolen out of houses. I guarantee you, walk around his neighborhood right now, there's probably someone selling a gun somewhere illegally," he said."Very easy on the streets.
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