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"Redd, a 25-year-old Black transgender woman known as “Barbie” to her friends, was shot and killed in the early hours of Sunday on Chicago’s West Side. The tragedy marks the 26th known violent death of a transgender or gender-nonconforming individual in 2024.
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    "The apparent randomness of the attack combined with Redd’s gender identity has intensified calls from her family for justice. “I do feel like it was a hate crime,” Redd’s cousin, Mariyah Phillips, told the Sun-Times. “People are really attacking that community. I want people to know that they are being attacked.”

A Pattern of Violence
Redd is the first transgender woman murdered in Chicago this year, but the city has a grim history of violence against transgender individuals. Since 2016, at least 14 transgender or gender-nonconforming people have been murdered in the city. Shockingly, most of these cases remain unsolved, illustrating a broader issue of systemic neglect and insufficient action by law enforcement"
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    "Transgender rights activist Zahara Bassett, who personally knew several of the victims, remains haunted by the lack of justice. “It’s a forever cycle of trying to heal, continuously trying to move forward with no answers,” she told the Chicago Sun-Times. Bassett, who runs Life is Work, a nonprofit dedicated to serving trans people of color, highlighted that out of the 14 murders since 2016, only four cases have led to charges.

This ongoing violence is part of a broader national epidemic. Researchers documented more than 400 transgender homicides in the United States between 2010 and 2023. Disturbingly, 73% of those murders involved Black transgender women, like Redd and Labelle. Across the country, violence against the transgender community continues to surge, with the U.S. Department of Justice recording a 350% increase in gender-identity-related hate crimes between 2020 and 2022"
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    "Advocates like Bassett stress the importance of visibility and action, emphasizing that the trans community has been left to mourn their losses without adequate support or justice. The widespread misgendering of victims, which frequently occurs in police reports and media coverage, makes this frustration even worse by effectively erasing their identity and complicating investigations.

Systemic Failures in Policing Transgender Murders

The low clearance rate for transgender homicides — only 14% in Chicago since 2016 — starkly contrasts with the national average, which stands at around 50%. This discrepancy raises serious questions about the city’s commitment to solving these crimes. Despite community demands for accountability, little seems to change. The failures in policing transgender murders are reflective of larger systemic issues within law enforcement, which struggle to recognize and address crimes against marginalized communities."
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