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503 shot, 107 homicides in Chicago. 45 in February and 5 in March. So far this year there is somebody shot nearly every 3 hours and a homicide every 14 hours, 5 minutes. Wait until it gets warm. The first weekend there are a double digit murders spring has arrived.
Flabbergasted at Chicago. The corruption is just too much
This has little to do with the numbers. Part of the documented problem this year is when the mayor fired the police chief over the whole scandal. The cops kind of got "depressed" in a way and apparently stopped trying as hard as they had been in the more recent years.
Statistically, at least through 2/26, half of the homicides that had occurred in 2016 happened in areas where only 13.9% of the population lives. If you expand that out to 75% of the homicides, then it is in areas where only 29.4% of the population lives.
47.2% of the population lives in community areas that had yet to record a homicide this year.
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Well, they're not the ones murdering people left and right (Chicago on pace for 700 this year).
106 now.
This is wrong. The pace is between 600 to 620, which while still a lot is still a big difference from 700.
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503 shot, 107 homicides in Chicago. 45 in February and 5 in March. So far this year there is somebody shot nearly every 3 hours and a homicide every 14 hours, 5 minutes. Wait until it gets warm. The first weekend there are a double digit murders spring has arrived.
As sad as this year has been, every single other category like Assault, Battery, etc is a good deal lower YTD than compared with 10 years ago in 2006. Something's up with the homicides though. And as sad as that is, the early 90s were terrible. Look at this and keep in mind that the city had just under 3000 shootings for all of 2015:
In the first four months of 1992, the latest period that such figures were available, some 4,251 people have been shot and 2,877 stabbed. That equates to a shooting every 41 minutes and a stabbing every hour in the city, records show.
There were more people shot by something like 40% in the first four months of 1992 than all of 2015 combined.
Dnainfo estimated 700 murders, so we'll see. 109 right now.
1992 was a long time ago, and every major American city had a pretty rough 30 year period (late 60s through the late 90s). The major difference is peer cities like New York, LA, Atlanta, DC, et al have had a significant turnaround, whereas Chicago's homicides did not improve at comparable rates.
Something is very wrong in Chicago that other cities have better managed to combat.
Dnainfo estimated 700 murders, so we'll see. 109 right now.
1992 was a long time ago, and every major American city had a pretty rough 30 year period (late 60s through the late 90s). The major difference is peer cities like New York, LA, Atlanta, DC, et al have had a significant turnaround, whereas Chicago's homicides did not improve at comparable rates.
Something is very wrong in Chicago that other cities have better managed to combat.
Stop speaking out of your ass.....DC and Atlanta have had higher per capita homicide rates on average over the last 5-10 years than Chicago has.....DC had a terrible year in 2015 for Homicides (worse by far than Chicago did in 2015....through this year (2016) it looks like Chicago will be worse)......
Most major cities have crime problems.....Nyc and LA are exceptions.....DC, Philadelphia, Miami, Oakland, New Orleans etc etc etc all have just as many problems with crime as Chicago does.....
We get it Obaaaaammmma is from Chicago, but please don't speak on topics you know little about....
Dnainfo estimated 700 murders, so we'll see. 109 right now.
DNAInfo is wrong. If we're at 109 through March 6th, which is day 65 of the year, then that rate is 1.676 homicides per day. Multiply that out to 365 days, and you get 612 homicides.
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1992 was a long time ago, and every major American city had a pretty rough 30 year period (late 60s through the late 90s). The major difference is peer cities like New York, LA, Atlanta, DC, et al have had a significant turnaround, whereas Chicago's homicides did not improve at comparable rates.
Something is very wrong in Chicago that other cities have better managed to combat.
The homicide rate in Chicago in 2014 was 15.1 per 100k. Not low, but do you know who had higher rates for that year?
St. Louis, Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, Newark, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Oakland, Miami, Kansas City, Stockton (CA), Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Indianapolis (and it was almost tied with Milwaukee). That's right - Chicago in 2014 was barely in the top 20 for highest homicide rates. Miami, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and DC all had higher homicide rates.
For me I dont look at per capita stats, I just look at the amount of people being shot. If i'm sitting at a hotel watching the news and they say that 15 people were shot last night I'm not going to say "well its not that bad because this city is bigger" because 15 people still got shot. 15 people for example that are shot is still bad no matter if the city is big or small. Sure I would rather live in a big city that has 15 people that are shot verses a small town with 15 people being shot but at the end of the day 15 people still got shot. I know some people will get sensitive and say "that's dumb" or "well that means bigger cities will always have more people being shot" so....I dont care. I look at the amount of people being shot.
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