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It's crazy to think that Chicago and L.A. traded back and forth with eachother for higher totals throughout the 1980's and 90's when Chicago has the winter months that lowers the violence. Chicago with L.A.'s weather, I couldn't imagine the totals in those peak years.
If you talking about 2020, I think your math is wrong. LA has 1.3 million more people and half the homicide total of Chicago.
It says highest murder rates ever, as in highest murder rates these cities ever had in their history. None of these cities have rates this high in 2020.
It's crazy to think that Chicago and L.A. traded back and forth with eachother for higher totals throughout the 1980's and 90's when Chicago has the winter months that lowers the violence. Chicago with L.A.'s weather, I couldn't imagine the totals in those peak years.
The same could be said if Los Angeles had the Black population of Chicago. But than again we'll never know.
Chicago was 34.1 per 100K in 1992, so essentially the same as 1980 LA. What years were Philly and NYC?
NYC was 1990 and Phillly was 1987.
Also Compton was 75 per 100k in the 80's and 90's.
Chicago was just a point lower than Los Angeles because they never broke over 1000k homicides.
But the city that I see that's historically dangerous is Detroit and Baltimore. And I believe New Orleans is the city with the most murder capital title's in history.
It's crazy to think that Chicago and L.A. traded back and forth with eachother for higher totals throughout the 1980's and 90's when Chicago has the winter months that lowers the violence. Chicago with L.A.'s weather, I couldn't imagine the totals in those peak years.
In addition to CPD having a 70%+ clearance rate and gun deaths in those days peaked 70-75%( compared to about 91% today).
The gang truce between a dozen factions in Chicago after the death of Dantrell Davis in Oct. 1992 ebbed the violence and prevented the murder tally topping the record of 970(if not 1,000) by the year end, considering there were 8,000 shooting victims( Chicago really is/was a shoot 'em up city) by July. LA also had a gang truce earlier that year, although 1993 practically seem much of the same.
Even taken into account the winters, there seem to have been a greater amount of career criminals out in the streets back then doing what they do 24/7.
I found this link from 1992. It’s amazing how many homicides American cities had in those days.
Especially the mention of San Diego having 179 in 1991. Nowadays that seems unthinkable for that city. Dallas too, in spite of this year's surge.
Last edited by Chicagoland60426; 12-11-2020 at 11:34 AM..
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