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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday he’s going to ‘pull back’ on an Obama era police reform tactic.

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AR- and AK-style rifles have been used in 33 shootings in the last nine months, the Chicago Tribune reported. At least 46 people were shot in those attacks, 13 of them fatally.

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A pregnant woman was among seven people killed Wednesday in Chicago, five of them murdered in a two hour window.

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Twelve-year-old Kanari Gentry-Bowers died in a hospital bed Wednesday night, the third child in two days to die from gunfire in the city of Chicago.

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions Monday, after weeks of President Donald Trump’s tough talk claiming he’ll “send in the Feds” to fix Chicago’s violence problem.

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The violence continued in Chicago, as five more people were killed and at least 22 wounded in shootings over the weekend.

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Many believe part of the key to reducing gun violence is community involvement, which the march aims to increase.

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A survey of police officers in America found that 86 percent of them believe high-profile incidents involving officers and black people make police work harder, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday.

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"We didn't just break the record on the low number of shootings in NYC, we shattered it,” said New York City Police Chief Michael Shea about the 4 percent drop in overall crime last year.

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The mayor’s director of communications said they welcome the help and are moved by the fact that president-elect considers it a serious problem.

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Dr. Alli Muhammad with the Revolutionary Black Panther Party said in any other country the police killings would be called a genocide and “it can’t go on.”

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As violence in Chicago reaches a level not seen in decades - more than 700 murders so far in 2016 - one state senator says he'll introduce a bill next month that would impose harsher sentences for repeat gun offenders.

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