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I would like to tip my hat to our new chief of police for the 3 straight years of double digit crime drops and the lowest murder totals in 20 years(72 in a city of 604,000). Not surprising he is the first chief we brought in from outside of the state, Springfield, MA to be exact. Springfield's loss Milwaukee's gain.
While I do like what Flynn is doing, and I like a lot of his attitude towards crime and his officers, particularly with the recent criticism on high speed chases.
I am holding out a bit as to what the source for the drops are. The reductions in homicides in the city here are at the same rate nation-wide, as are the drops in violent crime. All good things, no argument. I'm just holding out hope that this isn't the precursor to having things fall apart, as they did in the 1980's. The fact that most cities are dropping at the exact same rate is eye raising.
Keep in mind too, that public safety funding has been cut significantly, for the fourth straight year. Keep hoping that doesn't negatively affect those statistics you hang your hat on.
What really stood out to me was Los Angeles officially has surpassed Chicago by a million people in population for the city proper. Yet, Chicago is far above in murders.
NYC with nearly 3X the population is about to be passed for #1 by Chicago also.
That's pretty sad.
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I know this may be the wrong forum, but I know everyone is probably curious....Juarez has already 35 reported murders in the first 4 days of the year. Again, that is just reported. Things does not seem to be slowing down there.
What really stood out to me was Los Angeles officially has surpassed Chicago by a million people in population for the city proper. Yet, Chicago is far above in murders.
NYC with nearly 3X the population is about to be passed for #1 by Chicago also.
That's pretty sad.
Sad, but true.
In raw numbers, Chicago is on its way to being Murder Capital of the U.S.
Yet in terms of murder rate Chicago is about middle of the road. Definitely higher than NYC or LA, but way lower than MANY other cities. Nearly every city has it's certain areas that are "warzones" (relative to the rest of the city of course), Chicago just has a few more than NYC or LA. They all have tons upon tons of perfectly nice parts too.
Interesting how people will either talk up the raw numbers or the murder rate, depending on which one makes their city look more "hard" ...or in Rockford101's case, to put down a city they dislike.
I wonder what West Palm Beach is? I know WPB had a little killing spree in Decmber towards the end of the year. And so far this year it already has 2 homicides, and one of them happened on New Years Day.
Maybe this link works, if not go to the Department of Justice, FBI website and you can look and/or download stats there.
WPB has been listed as one of Americas most dangerous cities before by Forbes.
I believe it. For it's size though, but in reality, the city of Riviera Beach north of West Palm has an even higher crime rate and is more dangerous. I used to live in West Palm.
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