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The nation's recent fixation with crime in Chicago is truly bizarre. Violent crime has been trending downward for almost 20 years, the murder rate is roughly half of what it was 15 years ago and has been stable over the last 3 or 4 years. Meanwhile there are numerous major cities whose crime rate is little or no better (Houston, Dallas, Miami, Milwaukee, Phoenix) and plenty with a way worse crime problem (New Orleans, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Atlanta, Akron, Flint, Baltimore, Washington, Cleveland, etc.) and yet everyone's fixated on how Chicago is supposedly spinning out of control. The crime rate in Chicago has not significantly changed in the last few years, and to the extent that it has, it has been trending downward, not upward.
The nation's recent fixation with crime in Chicago is truly bizarre. Violent crime has been trending downward for almost 20 years, the murder rate is roughly half of what it was 15 years ago and has been stable over the last 3 or 4 years. Meanwhile there are numerous major cities whose crime rate is little or no better (Houston, Dallas, Miami, Milwaukee, Phoenix) and plenty with a way worse crime problem (New Orleans, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Atlanta, Akron, Flint, Baltimore, Washington, Cleveland, etc.) and yet everyone's fixated on how Chicago is supposedly spinning out of control. The crime rate in Chicago has not significantly changed in the last few years, and to the extent that it has, it has been trending downward, not upward.
Be that as it may, 52 people killed in one weekend is pretty extraordinary and perhaps deserving of some media scrutiny.
Let's me guess, all of these shootings are being done by African Americans? It is hard to picture Danish Americans or Swedish Americans exhibiting this kind of behavior.
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in terms of violence......
