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Chicago is right at where it had all year in 2017. It's projected to hit 800+, given last week's end had already 5% more homicides than in 2016. I actually think it will fall below that. Depending on what happens starting next week, there could be another huge spike, but lets hope that won't happen.
In other news, there were 7 paintball shootings across the city, 208 in September and October. A man has lost an eye in recent string, and 6 have been arrested. https://abc7chicago.com/paintball-sh...ville/7477183/
Homicides doesn't include justified & police related incidents. Therefore won't be recorded as such.
Wrong. Homicide is a cause of death on a death certificate, not a criminal charge. It means someone that was killed by someone else, and it is the number reported out in LA and many other cities by the coroner and police department. Murder/manslaughter are criminal charges, and do not include homicides that are ruled justified. Whether a homicide is justified or not can take the DA/courts years to decide.
Do you have family in Jackson or you lived there before?
Never lived there, but yes I have family in Jackson as well as Hattiesburg and definitely in Meridian and Bessemer, AL.... Our family tree originated out of Meridian... There's streets and funeral homes bearing our last name...
It's literally called justifiable "homicide" in legaleze.
A lot of folks are ignorant of legal definitions, and use them interchangeably, even though that isn't correct. The one I see the general public misuse even more is robbery vs burglary, which is made more confusing in American English since nobody uses the world burgled as a verb (outside of maybe the Hamburglar).
Robbery is a violent crime where something is taken directly from another person with force or threat of force, like a mugging or a breaking into a house when someone is home (AKA home invasion).
Burglary is stealing something without an interaction with the owner, like breaking into a car parked on the street or a house when the owners are at work. It is considered a property crime.
13 homicides over the last 2 weeks. LA through 10/24:
2020- 268
2019- 217
2018- 206
An article in the LA Times today on the spike in murders. They mostly talk about LAPD Central Bureau, which includes a bunch of parts of random, unrelated neighborhoods in LA near to Downtown. It's made up of Central Division (Downtown), Hollenbeck Division (The parts of East LA that are in city limits, like Boyle Heights, as well as a little bit of NE LA), Northeast Division (The rest of NE LA + Central LA neighborhoods like Los Feliz, Silver Lake, parts of E. Hollywood, and parts of Echo Park), Rampart Division (MacArthur Park as well as parts of Echo Park and E. Hollywood), and Newton Division (part of South LA) Looking at the 80 that occurred in Central Bureau, half were gang associated. 37% of victims were homeless, and usually their killers are also homeless. You occasionally get a homeless person killed by a non-homeless gang member, but those murders tend to make the news because it is rare.
RIP Freddie.... I used to work in Echo Park, and I ran into Freddie in front of my job on Glendale. He told me he'd do anything for work and to get off the streets... He became homeless after being released from prison. Unfortunately shortly after we met, he got into a scuffle with another homeless person in front of the Post Office on Alvarado. That's where he was beat to death. He wasn't even added to the LA County Homicide statistics that year. Only thing that happened was RIP Freddie was spray painted on the walls of almost every building in Echo Park.... Case never solved, but the streets know who did it....
Chicago is right at where it had all year in 2017. It's projected to hit 800+, given last week's end had already 5% more homicides than in 2016. I actually think it will fall below that. Depending on what happens starting next week, there could be another huge spike, but lets hope that won't happen.
In other news, there were 7 paintball shootings across the city, 208 in September and October. A man has lost an eye in recent string, and 6 have been arrested. https://abc7chicago.com/paintball-sh...ville/7477183/
But Chicago's only at 650~ right now and Chicago getting very cold in the winter slows the rate down alot. I dont see Chicago hitting 800 this year.
Homicides doesn't include justified & police related incidents. Therefore won't be recorded as such.
Ikr. I was so happy that Chicago had less than 500 last year, but I saw multiple reputable news sources posting like 518 or something and it kind of irritated me because I wanted everyone to know for sure that Chicago was getting safer.
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